Harnessing Complexity (Axelrod Robert)(Paperback)

Harnessing Complexity (Axelrod Robert)(Paperback)

Harnessing Complexity will be indispensable to anyone who wants to better comprehend how people and organizations can adapt effectively in the information age. This book is a step-by-step guide to understanding the processes of variation, interaction, and selection that are at work in all

Evolution of Co-Operation (Axelrod Robert)(Paperback / softback)

How can co-operation emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists - whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals - when there is no central authority to police their actions? This title explores this question, and its implications in this age of nuclear weapons and arms

Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (Venturi Robert)(Paperback)

First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture, Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and

Multiple Case Study Analysis (Stake Robert E.)(Paperback)

Examining situational complexity is a vital part of social and behavioral science research. This engaging text provides an effective process for studying multiple cases--such as sets of teachers, staff development sessions, or clinics operating in different locations--within one complex program

Modern Optics Simplified (Guenther Robert D.)(Paperback)

This textbook reduces the complexity of the coverage of optics to allow a student with only elementary calculus to learn the principles of optics and the modern Fourier theory of diffraction and imaging. Students majoring in sciences or engineering and taking a standard physics course on optics

The Eclipse I Call Father: Essays on Absence (Axelrod David)(Paperback)

In The Eclipse I Call Father: Essays on Absence, David Axelrod recalls a balmy night in May 1970 when he vowed to allow no one and nothing he loves to pass from this life without praise, even if it meant praising the most bewildering losses. In each of these fourteen essays Axelrod delivers on

Complexity and Contradiction at Fifty: Robert Venturi's Gentle Manifesto: A Symposium (Stierli Martino)(Pevná vazba)

Now available in its original edition along with critical commentary, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture is the founding text of postmodernism in architecture First published in 1966, Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, widely considered the foundational text of

Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Holland John H.)(Paperback)

The importance of complexity is well-captured by Hawking's comment: 'Complexity is the science of the 21st century'. From the movement of flocks of birds to the Internet, environmental sustainability, and market regulation, the study and understanding of complex non-linear systems has become highly

Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling (Downey Allen B.)(Paperback)

Complexity science uses computation to explore the physical and social sciences. In Think Complexity, you'll use graphs, cellular automata, and agent-based models to study topics in physics, biology, and economics. Whether you're an intermediate-level Python programmer or a student of

Simplified Complexity (Di Marco Giancarlo)(Paperback / softback)

On Complexity (Morin Edgar)(Paperback / softback)

Contains essays on the subject of

Nantucket Penny (Axelrod Steven)(Paperback)

It's wedding season on Nantucket, and two unwelcome guests are crashing the party...When people begin disappearing from the island, Nantucket Police Chief Henry Kennis is baffled. The victims are not random--they're all Nantucket High School alumni. And the only clues left behind are pennies

Computational Complexity of Counting and Sampling (Miklos Istvan)(Paperback)

Computational Complexity of Counting and Sampling　provides readers with comprehensive and detailed coverage of the subject of computational complexity. It is primarily geared toward researchers in enumerative combinatorics, discrete mathematics, and theoretical computer science. The book covers

Demon Seed - A novel of horror and complexity that grips the imagination (Koontz Dean)(Paperback / softback)

A novel of horror and complexity that grips the

Living with Complexity (Norman Donald A.)(Paperback)

Why we don't really want simplicity, and how we can learn to live with complexity.If only today's technology were simpler It's the universal lament, but it's wrong. In this provocative and informative book, Don Norman writes that the complexity of our technology must mirror the complexity and

The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity (Hausmann Ricardo)(Paperback)

Maps capture data expressing the economic complexity of countries from Albania to Zimbabwe, offering current economic measures and as well as a guide to achieving prosperityWhy do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas of Economic Complexity offer readers an explanation

Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity (Kagan Sacha)(Paperback)

Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts: Enabling Conditions for Negotiating Contingent Resolutions (Choudhury Enamul)(Paperback)

'Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts' seeks to understand transboundary water governance as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to

Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps: How to Thrive in Complexity (Garvey Berger Jennifer)(Paperback)

Complexity can be a terrible and overwhelming force, or it can be a delightful source of new energy and possibility-it all depends on your ability to escape the mindtraps we fall into and create new habits for a new

Navigating Network Complexity: Next-Generation Routing with Sdn, Service Virtualization, and Service Chaining (White Russ)(Paperback)

Design your networks to successfully manage their growing complexity Network professionals have often been told that today's modern control planes would simplify their networks. The opposite has happened: Technologies like SDN and NFV, although immensely valuable, are exacerbating complexity

Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency - Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in SLA(Paperback / softback)

Research into complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as basic dimensions of second language performance, proficiency and development has received increased attention in SLA. This volume showcases the research on CAF by bringing together eleven contributions from renowned international researchers

Believer: My Forty Years in Politics (Axelrod David)(Paperback)

'A portrait of political campaigning that is more like what we hope than what we fear . . . a stout defense--indeed, the best I have read--of the Obama years.' --David Gergen, The New York Times Book Review NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER David Axelrod has always been a believer. Whether as a young

Poetry of Robert Burns (Burns Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Cormac McCarthy: A Complexity Theory of Literature (Cooper Lydia R.)(Pevná vazba)

Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy's literary works. McCarthy's fiction makes a significant case study demonstrating how literature can help us imagine and grapple with complex systems and crises, from global