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why simple things become complex (and how complex things can be made simple)

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An edition of Simplexity (2008)

Simplexity

why simple things become complex (and how complex things can be made simple)

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Draws on cutting-edge theories to describe the basic workings of everyday objects and principles in accessible language, covering a wide variety of topics from cell phones and viruses to economics and parenting.

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Hyperion
Language
English
Pages
324

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Subjects
Simplicity, Science, Philosophy, Complexity (Philosophy), Miscellanea, Technology

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Simplexity: why simple things become complex (and how complex things can be made simple)
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Table of Contents

Why is the stock market so hard to predict? : confused by everyone else
Why is it so hard to leave a burning building or an endangered city? : confused by instincts
How does a single bullet start a world war? : confused by social structure
Why do the jobs that require the greatest skills often pay the least? Why do companies with the least to sell often earn the most? : confused by payoffs
Why do people, mice, and worlds die when they do? : confused by scale
Why do bad teams win so many games and good teams lose so many? : confused by objective
Why do we always worry about the wrong things? : confused by fear
Why is a baby the best linguist in any room? : confused by silence
Why are your cell phone and camera so absurdly complicated? : confused by flexibility
Why are only 10 percent of the world's medical resources used to treat 90 percent of its ills? : confused by false targets
Why does complexity science fall flat in the arts? : confused by loveliness.

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Includes index.

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New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
501
Library of Congress
Q173 .K5738 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 324 p. ;
Number of pages
324

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Open Library
OL24972083M
Internet Archive
simplexitywhysim00klug
ISBN 10
1401303013
ISBN 13
9781401303013
LCCN
2009281364
OCLC/WorldCat
179826558

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