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010 a| 2003064178;

020 a| 0374281254 (hc : alk. paper);

020 a| 9780374281250 (hc : alk. paper);

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100 1 a| Ball, Philip,d| 1962-=| ^A395561;

245 10 a| Critical mass :b| how one thing leads to another /c| Philip Ball.;

250 a| 1st American ed.;

260 a| New York :b| Farrar, Straus and Giroux,c| 2004.;

300 a| 520 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-501) and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction : political arithmetick -- Raising Leviathan : the brutish world of Thomas Hobbes -- Lesser forces : the mechanical philosophy of matter -- The law of large numbers : regularities from randomness -- The grand ah-whoom : why some things happen all at once -- On growth and form : the emergence of shape and organization -- The march of reason : chance and necessity in collective motion -- On the road : the inexorable dynamics of traffic -- Rhythms of the marketplace : the shaky hidden hand of economics -- Agents of fortune : why interaction matters to the economy -- Uncommon proportions : critical states and the power of the straight line -- The work of many hands : the growth of firms -- Join the club : alliances in business and politics -- Multitudes in the valley of decision : collective influence and social change -- The colonization of culture : globalization, diversity, and synthetic societies -- Small worlds : networks that bring us together -- Weaving the web : the shape of cyberspace -- Order in Eden : learning to cooperate -- Pavlov's victory : is reciprocity good for us? -- Toward Utopia? : heaven, hell, and social planning -- Epilogue: Curtain call.;

650 0 a| Sociology.=| ^A1034;

650 0 a| Human behaviorx| Philosophy.=| ^A1385;

650 0 a| Physicsx| Social aspects.=| ^A3251;

856 42 3| Contributor biographical informationu| http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol053/2003064178.html;

856 42 3| Publisher descriptionu| http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2003064178.html;

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Critical mass : how one thing leads to another / Philip Ball.

Author/creator	Ball, Philip, 1962-
Format	Book
Edition	1st American ed.
Publication Info	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Description	520 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Subjects	Sociology. Human behavior--Philosophy. Physics--Social aspects.

Contents	Introduction : political arithmetick -- Raising Leviathan : the brutish world of Thomas Hobbes -- Lesser forces : the mechanical philosophy of matter -- The law of large numbers : regularities from randomness -- The grand ah-whoom : why some things happen all at once -- On growth and form : the emergence of shape and organization -- The march of reason : chance and necessity in collective motion -- On the road : the inexorable dynamics of traffic -- Rhythms of the marketplace : the shaky hidden hand of economics -- Agents of fortune : why interaction matters to the economy -- Uncommon proportions : critical states and the power of the straight line -- The work of many hands : the growth of firms -- Join the club : alliances in business and politics -- Multitudes in the valley of decision : collective influence and social change -- The colonization of culture : globalization, diversity, and synthetic societies -- Small worlds : networks that bring us together -- Weaving the web : the shape of cyberspace -- Order in Eden : learning to cooperate -- Pavlov's victory : is reciprocity good for us? -- Toward Utopia? : heaven, hell, and social planning -- Epilogue: Curtain call.
Local note	Little-345793--305131046655$
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-501) and index.
LCCN	2003064178
ISBN	0374281254 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780374281250 (hc : alk. paper)

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