This captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world (Financial Times) is both empowering (The New Statesman, UK) and compelling (New Scientist) as it challenges our mos...Lasīt vairāk
A social scientist and Atlantic writer challenges how we think our world worksand why small, chance events can divert our lives and change everything. Illustrations. Maps. In the perspective-altering tradition of Malcolm Gladwel...Lasīt vairāk
The book applies ideas and results from complexity theory with man and societies as organic complex systems to examine issues about dynamic interdependences between trust and justice. Applying multiplanar theories and empirical studies from academic...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Jan-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231166324)
Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, depict, and rationalize extreme disorder, with all the passions, excitements, and compromises the act has provoked. He builds a rough history from major social, psychological, and cosmological tu...Lasīt vairāk
The editors have extracted and summarized the core of real scientific progress in postmodern science in order to form a list of conceptual tools it has provided or refined, and to point out their significance for the social sciences. Eighteen article...Lasīt vairāk
The authors of this volume provide a timely collection of articles which examine the emerging myths and theories surrounding the study of chaos and complexity. In the second part methodological matters are considered. Finally, conceptual models and a...Lasīt vairāk
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}The closing years of this century find Americans skeptical of modern institutionsthe political system, the gloablized economy, the public schoolsand their abilities to solve the most basic problems of our time. Amid the rising tide of discontent,...Lasīt vairāk
