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The Ends of the World

Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

by Peter Brannen ...

One of Vox’s Most Important Books of the DecadeNew York Times Editors' Choice 2017Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass e... ... Read more

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One of Vox’s Most Important Books of the DecadeNew York Times Editors' Choice 2017Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass e...
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Learn to Think in Systems

The Systems Thinker Series, #4

by Albert Rutherford ...

Series Book 4 - The Systems Thinker Series
Would you like to have better solutions to your problems? Struggling to understand why things went wrong when you did everything right?Learn to Think in Systems can help you with these problems.Systems surround us and we might not even be aware of it. Your household is a system. The bakery on the corner is a system. Your class at school, your department at work, and your weekend soccer team made ... Read more

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Would you like to have better solutions to your problems? Struggling to understand why things went wrong when you did everything right?Learn to Think in Systems can help you with these problems.Systems surround us and we might not even be aware of it. Your household is a system. The bakery on the corner is a system. Your class at school, your department at work, and your weekend soccer team made
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Linked

How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life

by Albert-László Barabási ...

The best-selling guide to network science, the revolutionary field that reveals the deep links between all forms of human social lifeA cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. In Linked, Albert-László Barabási, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us ... Read more

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The best-selling guide to network science, the revolutionary field that reveals the deep links between all forms of human social lifeA cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. In Linked, Albert-László Barabási, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us
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All of Statistics

A Concise Course in Statistical Inference

by Larry Wasserman ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Taken literally, the title "All of Statistics" is an exaggeration. But in spirit, the title is apt, as the book does cover a much broader range of topics than a typical introductory book on mathematical statistics. This book is for people who want to learn probability and statistics quickly. It is suitable for graduate or advanced undergraduate students in computer science, mathematics, statistics ... Read more

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Taken literally, the title "All of Statistics" is an exaggeration. But in spirit, the title is apt, as the book does cover a much broader range of topics than a typical introductory book on mathematical statistics. This book is for people who want to learn probability and statistics quickly. It is suitable for graduate or advanced undergraduate students in computer science, mathematics, statistics
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Complexity

The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

by M. Mitchell Waldrop ...

"If you liked Chaos, you'll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year" ( The Washington Post).In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. ... Read more

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"If you liked Chaos, you'll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year" ( The Washington Post).In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world.
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The New Science of Cities

by Michael Batty ...

A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks.In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand ... Read more

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A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks.In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand
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A Brief History of Earth

Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

by Andrew H. Knoll ...

Harvard’s acclaimed geologist “charts Earth’s history in accessible style” (AP)“A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED reviewHow well do you know the ground beneath your feet?Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, ... Read more

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Harvard’s acclaimed geologist “charts Earth’s history in accessible style” (AP)“A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED reviewHow well do you know the ground beneath your feet?Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean,
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Black Holes

The Key to Understanding the Universe

by Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw ...

By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe.At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes ... Read more

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By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe.At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes
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On Trails

An Exploration

by Robert Moor ...

New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra ClubFrom a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the ... Read more

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New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra ClubFrom a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the
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Thinking in Systems

International Bestseller

by Donella Meadows ...

The classic book on systems thinking—with more than half a million copies sold worldwide!“This is a fabulous book… This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing.”—Forbes“A modern classic”—The New YorkerIn the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a ... ... Read more

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The classic book on systems thinking—with more than half a million copies sold worldwide!“This is a fabulous book… This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing.”—Forbes“A modern classic”—The New YorkerIn the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a ...
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Impact: Six Patterns to Spread Your Social Innovation

by Al Etmanski ...

"Impact beautifully distills the insights and deep wisdom of one of the world's great social innovators. Etmanski's book is far more than a practical guide: it's an invitation to re-imagine possibilities for our lives and for the world we create."- David Bornstein, author "How To Change The World"From the Introduction:Do you want to change the world but feel frustrated by the limited impact you ... Read more

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"Impact beautifully distills the insights and deep wisdom of one of the world's great social innovators. Etmanski's book is far more than a practical guide: it's an invitation to re-imagine possibilities for our lives and for the world we create."- David Bornstein, author "How To Change The World"From the Introduction:Do you want to change the world but feel frustrated by the limited impact you
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X-Events

The Collapse of Everything

by John L. Casti ...

A necessary and thought-provoking read for the age of coronavirus, exploring eleven scenarios that may trigger the collapse of the modern world — from pandemics to nuclear apocalypse to robot uprisings — and what we can do to prevent and survive them.In the twenty first century, our world has become impossibly complicated, relying on ever more advanced technology that is developing at an ... Read more

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A necessary and thought-provoking read for the age of coronavirus, exploring eleven scenarios that may trigger the collapse of the modern world — from pandemics to nuclear apocalypse to robot uprisings — and what we can do to prevent and survive them.In the twenty first century, our world has become impossibly complicated, relying on ever more advanced technology that is developing at an
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Sync

How Order Emerges from Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life

by Steven H. Strogatz ...

"A wonderfully lucid and thoroughly entertaining story of the emerging science of synchrony." —Brian Greene, national bestselling author of The Elegant Universe , Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Columbia UniversityAt the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. Along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies congregate and flash in unison; ... Read more

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"A wonderfully lucid and thoroughly entertaining story of the emerging science of synchrony." —Brian Greene, national bestselling author of The Elegant Universe , Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Columbia UniversityAt the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. Along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies congregate and flash in unison;
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I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works

Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted

by Nick Bilton ...

Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour?The world, as Nick Bilton—with tongue-in-cheek—shows, has been going to hell for a long, long time, and what we are experiencing is the twenty-first-century version of the ... Read more

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Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour?The world, as Nick Bilton—with tongue-in-cheek—shows, has been going to hell for a long, long time, and what we are experiencing is the twenty-first-century version of the
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Bursts

The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades

by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi ...

A revolutionary new theory showing how we can predict human behavior-from a radical genius and bestselling authorCan we scientifically predict our future? Scientists and pseudo scientists have been pursuing this mystery for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years. But now, astonishing new research is revealing patterns in human behavior previously thought to be purely random. Precise, orderly, ... Read more

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A revolutionary new theory showing how we can predict human behavior-from a radical genius and bestselling authorCan we scientifically predict our future? Scientists and pseudo scientists have been pursuing this mystery for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years. But now, astonishing new research is revealing patterns in human behavior previously thought to be purely random. Precise, orderly,
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Designing the Mind

The Principles of Psychitecture

by Designing the Mind, Ryan Bush ...

The Instant Cult Classic on the Art of Reprogramming Your Own Psychological SoftwareA bold and fascinating dive into the nuts and bolts of psychological evolution, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture is part philosophical manifesto, part practical self-development guide, all based on the teachings of legendary thinkers like Marcus Aurelius, Lao Tzu, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Abraham ... Read more

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The Instant Cult Classic on the Art of Reprogramming Your Own Psychological SoftwareA bold and fascinating dive into the nuts and bolts of psychological evolution, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture is part philosophical manifesto, part practical self-development guide, all based on the teachings of legendary thinkers like Marcus Aurelius, Lao Tzu, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Abraham
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Parkinson's Disease

Things You Should Know (Questions and Answers)

by Rumi Michael Leigh ...

Series series Things You Should Know
Unlock a comprehensive understanding of Parkinson's disease with Parkinson's Disease: Things You Should Know (Questions and Answers). This meticulously crafted guide breaks down the complexities of this neurological disorder into easy-to-digest questions and answers, making it an essential resource for patients, caregivers, and anyone interested in the subject. Whether you're looking to deepen ... Read more

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Unlock a comprehensive understanding of Parkinson's disease with Parkinson's Disease: Things You Should Know (Questions and Answers). This meticulously crafted guide breaks down the complexities of this neurological disorder into easy-to-digest questions and answers, making it an essential resource for patients, caregivers, and anyone interested in the subject. Whether you're looking to deepen
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Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Galileo Galilei) [Active Content]

by Galileu Galilei ...

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, published in 1638, was Galileo's last book and the scientific testament covering much of his work in physics over the preceding thirty years. After his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, the Roman Inquisition had banned the publication of any of Galileo's works, including any he might write in the future. After the failure of his initial ... Read more

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Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, published in 1638, was Galileo's last book and the scientific testament covering much of his work in physics over the preceding thirty years. After his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, the Roman Inquisition had banned the publication of any of Galileo's works, including any he might write in the future. After the failure of his initial
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Think in Systems

The Art of Strategic Planning, Effective

by Zoe McKey ...

Are you stuck in a rut despite your best efforts to get out? Looking for long-term solutions to your problems?We have the best of intentions to improve our conditions, but often our solutions fall short of improving our lives. Sometimes our best efforts can result in the opposite of what we want over time. How can we avoid these unwanted results?If we apply conventional thinking to complex issues, ... Read more

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Are you stuck in a rut despite your best efforts to get out? Looking for long-term solutions to your problems?We have the best of intentions to improve our conditions, but often our solutions fall short of improving our lives. Sometimes our best efforts can result in the opposite of what we want over time. How can we avoid these unwanted results?If we apply conventional thinking to complex issues,
... Read more
The Law of Nature Mirrored - Volume 1

Philosophy & Solution with Sentencing & Advancement

by Gary G Stromberger ...

The main topic of this book is the concept that 'sense and feel must exist for anything to ever be real and existent to mankind itself.'The result(s) can be expressed as a set of attributes (maybe "alpha(s)" is a better word) that can solve. However, being in air (Greek-resonant or Roman-reconciled) is not the best way to do measurement or survey...in wind-councils.*From my current perspective, a ... Read more

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The main topic of this book is the concept that 'sense and feel must exist for anything to ever be real and existent to mankind itself.'The result(s) can be expressed as a set of attributes (maybe "alpha(s)" is a better word) that can solve. However, being in air (Greek-resonant or Roman-reconciled) is not the best way to do measurement or survey...in wind-councils.*From my current perspective, a
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Differential Equations

by Viorel Barbu ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
This textbook is a comprehensive treatment of ordinary differential equations, concisely presenting basic and essential results in a rigorous manner.Including various examples from physics, mechanics, natural sciences, engineering and automatic theory, Differential Equations is a bridge between the abstract theory of differential equations and applied systems theory. Particular attention is given ... Read more

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This textbook is a comprehensive treatment of ordinary differential equations, concisely presenting basic and essential results in a rigorous manner.Including various examples from physics, mechanics, natural sciences, engineering and automatic theory, Differential Equations is a bridge between the abstract theory of differential equations and applied systems theory. Particular attention is given
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La Science

by Ghadi Succarieh ...

Ce livre est à propos de la science. Dans ce livre, vous trouvez un resumé à propos de la science avant l'humanité, la science et l'humanité, les scientifiques les plus importants et la science aujourd'hui. ... Read more

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Ce livre est à propos de la science. Dans ce livre, vous trouvez un resumé à propos de la science avant l'humanité, la science et l'humanité, les scientifiques les plus importants et la science aujourd'hui.
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An Introduction to Complex Systems

Society, Ecology, and Nonlinear Dynamics

by Paul Fieguth ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This undergraduate text explores a variety of large-scale phenomena - global warming, ice ages, water, poverty - and uses these case studies as a motivation to explore nonlinear dynamics, power-law statistics, and complex systems. Although the detailed mathematical descriptions of these topics can be challenging, the consequences of a system being nonlinear, power-law, or complex are in fact quite ... Read more

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This undergraduate text explores a variety of large-scale phenomena - global warming, ice ages, water, poverty - and uses these case studies as a motivation to explore nonlinear dynamics, power-law statistics, and complex systems. Although the detailed mathematical descriptions of these topics can be challenging, the consequences of a system being nonlinear, power-law, or complex are in fact quite
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Systemic Thinking

Fundamentals for Understanding Problems and Messes

by Kevin MacG. Adams, Patrick T. Hester ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
Whether you’re an academic or a practitioner, a sociologist, a manager, or an engineer, one can benefit from learning to think systemically. Problems (and messes) are everywhere and they’re getting more complicated every day. How we think about these problems determines whether or not we’ll be successful in understanding and addressing them. This book presents a novel way to think about problems ... Read more

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Whether you’re an academic or a practitioner, a sociologist, a manager, or an engineer, one can benefit from learning to think systemically. Problems (and messes) are everywhere and they’re getting more complicated every day. How we think about these problems determines whether or not we’ll be successful in understanding and addressing them. This book presents a novel way to think about problems
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