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_aKluger, Jeffrey, _eauthor. _97801 |
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_aSimplexity : _bwhy simple things become complex (and how complex things can be made simple) / _cJeffrey Kluger. |
| 250 | _aFirst edition. | ||
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_aNew York : _bHyperion, _c[2008] |
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_aviii, 324 pages ; _c22 cm |
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_atext _btxt _2rdacontent |
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia |
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| 500 | _aIncludes index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aWhy 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. | |
| 520 | _aDraws 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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_aScience _vMiscellanea. |
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_aTechnology _vMiscellanea. |
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_aComplexity (Philosophy) _97802 |
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_aSimplicity. _97803 |
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_aTrivia and miscellanea. _2lcgft |
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_ihas work: _aSimplexity (Text) _1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCG7d4q7C8VGW64dVdBqrVP _4https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork |
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_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1307/2009281364-b.html |
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_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1204/2009281364-d.html |
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