The social atom : why the rich get richer, cheaters get caught, and your neighbor usually looks like...
The social atom : why the rich get richer, cheaters get caught, and your neighbor usually looks like...
The social atom : why the rich get richer, cheaters get caught, and your neighbor usually looks like you / Mark Buchanan.
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New York, NY : Bloomsbury USA, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N302.35/ 176
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English
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xii, 242 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1 Think patterns, not people -- Ch. 2 The "human" problem -- Ch. 3 Our thinking instincts -- Ch. 4 The adaptive atom -- Ch. 5 The imitating atom -- Ch. 6 The cooperative atom -- Ch. 7 Together, apart -- Ch. 8 Conspiracies and numbers -- Ch. 9 Forward to the past....
Think patterns, not people -- The "human" problem -- Our thinking instincts -- The adaptive atom -- The imitating atom -- The cooperative atom -- Together, apart -- Conspiracies and numbers -- Forward to the past.
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New York, NY : Bloomsbury USA, 2007.
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New York (State)
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2007.
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"In this book Mark Buchanan suggests that understanding the laws of collective organization is the key challenge of our age. Brimming with mind games and provocative experiments, The Social Atom is an incisive, accessible, and comprehensive argument for a whole new way to look at human social behavior."--BOOK JACKET.
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The social atom : why the rich get richer, cheaters get caught, and your neighbor usually looks like you / Mark Buchanan.
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1596910135
9781596910133
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302.35
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