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" Simplexity : "
Jeffrey Kluger.
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BL
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956280
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b710650
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| Main Entry
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Kluger, Jeffrey.
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Simplexity : : why simple things become complex (and how complex things can be made simple) /\ Jeffrey Kluger.
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1st ed.
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New York :: Hyperion,, ©2008.
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viii, 324 pages ;; 22 cm
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1401303013
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: 1401309933
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: 9781401303013
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: 9781401309930
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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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Complexity (Philosophy)
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Science, Miscellanea.
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Simplicity.
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Technology, Miscellanea.
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Science-- Miscellanea.
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Science-- Philosophy.
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Complexity (Philosophy)
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Einfachheit.
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Komplexität.
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Science, Miscellanea.
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Science-- Philosophy.
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Science.
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Simplicity.
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Simplicity.
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Technology.
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| Dewey Classification
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501
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Q173.K5738 2008
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