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Learn to Think in Systems

The Systems Thinker Series, #4

par Albert Rutherford ...

Collections Livre 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 ... En savoir plus

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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
... En savoir plus
Linked

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

par 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 ... En savoir plus

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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
... En savoir plus
All of Statistics

A Concise Course in Statistical Inference

par Larry Wasserman ...

Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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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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The Ends of the World

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

par 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... ... En savoir plus

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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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The Systems Thinker

The Systems Thinker Series, #1

par Albert Rutherford ...

Collections Livre 1 - The Systems Thinker Series
The second edition is now available!Find the optimal solutions to your problems. Gain a deep understanding of the "what, why, how, when, how much" questions of your life.Become a Systems Thinker and discover how to approach your life from a completely new perspective.What is systems thinking? Put it simply, thinking about how things interact with one another.Why should this matter to you? Because ... En savoir plus

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The second edition is now available!Find the optimal solutions to your problems. Gain a deep understanding of the "what, why, how, when, how much" questions of your life.Become a Systems Thinker and discover how to approach your life from a completely new perspective.What is systems thinking? Put it simply, thinking about how things interact with one another.Why should this matter to you? Because
... En savoir plus
Complexity

The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

par 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. ... En savoir plus

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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.
... En savoir plus
The New Science of Cities

par 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 ... En savoir plus

$39.59 CAD

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
... En savoir plus
A Brief History of Earth

Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

par 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, ... En savoir plus

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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,
... En savoir plus
Black Holes

The Key to Understanding the Universe

par 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 ... En savoir plus

$13.99 CAD

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
... En savoir plus
On Trails

An Exploration

par 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 ... En savoir plus

$13.99 CAD

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
... En savoir plus
Thinking in Systems

International Bestseller

par 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 ... ... En savoir plus

$20.51 CAD

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

par 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 ... En savoir plus

$8.99 CAD

"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
... En savoir plus
X-Events

The Collapse of Everything

par 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 ... En savoir plus

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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
... En savoir plus
Sync

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

par 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; ... En savoir plus

$17.27 CAD

"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;
... En savoir plus
I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works

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

par 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 ... En savoir plus

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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
... En savoir plus
Bursts

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

par 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, ... En savoir plus

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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,
... En savoir plus
The Quest of Rose: The Cosmic Keys of Our Future Becoming

Future Humans Trilogy, #1

par Anneloes Smitsman, Jean Houston ...

Collections Livre 1 - Future Humans Trilogy
The Quest of Rose is a Winner of the 2022 Silver Nautilus Book Award in the category of Personal Growth, and the first book of the Future Humans Trilogy by Anneloes Smitsman, Ph.D. and Jean Houston, Ph.D. Written as an allegory, The Quest of Rose guides you through an experiential transformation journey that weaves together real-life events that are at the forefront of what's happening in... ... En savoir plus

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The Quest of Rose is a Winner of the 2022 Silver Nautilus Book Award in the category of Personal Growth, and the first book of the Future Humans Trilogy by Anneloes Smitsman, Ph.D. and Jean Houston, Ph.D. Written as an allegory, The Quest of Rose guides you through an experiential transformation journey that weaves together real-life events that are at the forefront of what's happening in...
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Designing the Mind

The Principles of Psychitecture

par 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 ... En savoir plus

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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
... En savoir plus
Parkinson's Disease

Things You Should Know (Questions and Answers)

par Rumi Michael Leigh ...

Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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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
... En savoir plus
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Galileo Galilei) [Active Content]

par 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 ... En savoir plus

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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
... En savoir plus
Think in Systems

The Art of Strategic Planning, Effective

par 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, ... En savoir plus

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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,
... En savoir plus
The Law of Nature Mirrored - Volume 1

Philosophy & Solution with Sentencing & Advancement

par 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 ... En savoir plus

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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
... En savoir plus
Systems and Systems Thinking

par Yavuz Ercil ...

The purpose of this book is to augment a basic reference to define and evaluate the phenomena and events in the world and to perceive them with a system perspective. Nurturing this reference point with the extend of different scientific disciplines would support its explanation and identification ability. In this book, we tried to substantiate this argument by ligurating different disciplines that ... En savoir plus

$4.85 CAD

The purpose of this book is to augment a basic reference to define and evaluate the phenomena and events in the world and to perceive them with a system perspective. Nurturing this reference point with the extend of different scientific disciplines would support its explanation and identification ability. In this book, we tried to substantiate this argument by ligurating different disciplines that
... En savoir plus
An Introduction to Socio-Finance

par Jørgen Vitting Andersen, Andrzej Nowak ...

Collections series Economics and Finance (R0)
This introductory text is devoted to exposing the underlying nature of price formation in financial markets as a predominantly sociological phenomenon that relates individual decision-making to emergent and co-evolving social and financial structures.Two different levels of this sociological influence are considered: First, we examine how price formation results from the social dynamics of ... En savoir plus

$58.04 CAD

This introductory text is devoted to exposing the underlying nature of price formation in financial markets as a predominantly sociological phenomenon that relates individual decision-making to emergent and co-evolving social and financial structures.Two different levels of this sociological influence are considered: First, we examine how price formation results from the social dynamics of
... En savoir plus

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