Sala, Osvaldo E.  | Island

126,000원  | 20210101  | 9781597264969

Exploring the link between human well-being and the environment, this work brings together experts from the natural science and social science realms as well as the medical community to explore the explicit linkages between human-driven alterations of biodiversity and documented impacts of those changes on human health.

Gould, Stephen Jay  | Harvard Univ Pr

0원  | 20111202  | 9780674061613

Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this "full house" of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing.

 | Hutson Street Press

47,160원  | 20250522  | 9781024349382

"A History Of The Art Of Printing From Its Invention To Its Wide-spread Development In The Middle Of The Sixteenth Century" explores the fascinating evolution of printing from its earliest origins to its widespread adoption by the mid-16th century. This meticulously researched work by Henry Noel Humphreys delves into the technological innovations and artistic achievements that defined the printing revolution.

Pentland, Alex  | Penguin Press

0원  | 20140130  | 9781594205651

"From one of the world's leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence" If the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT's Alex "Sandy" Pentland. Over years of groundbreaking experiments, he has distilled remarkable discoveries significant enough to become the bedrock of a whole new scientific field: social physics. Humans have more in common with bees than we like to admit: We're social creatures first and foremost. Our most important habits of action--and most basic notions of common sense--are wired into us through our coordination in social groups. Social physics is about "idea flow," the way human social networks spread ideas and transform those ideas into behaviors. Thanks to the millions of digital bread crumbs people leave behind via smartphones, GPS devices, and the Internet, the amount of new information we have about human activity is truly profound. Until now, sociologists have depended on limited data sets and surveys that tell us how people "say" they think and behave, rather than what they actually "do." As a result, we've been stuck with the same stale social structures--classes, markets--and a focus on individual actors, data snapshots, and steady states. Pentland shows that, in fact, humans respond much more powerfully to social incentives that involve rewarding others and strengthening the ties that bind than incentives that involve only their own economic self-interest. Pentland and his teams have found that they can study "patterns "of information exchange in a social network without any knowledge of the actual "content "of the information and predict with stunning accuracy how productive and effective that network is, whether it's a business or an entire city. We can maximize a group's collective intelligence to improve performance and use social incentives to create new organizations and guide them through disruptive change in a way that maximizes the good. At every level of interaction, from small groups to large cities, social networks can be tuned to increase exploration and engagement, thus vastly improving idea flow. "Social Physics" will change the way we think about how we learn and how our social groups work--and can be made to work better, at every level of society. Pentland leads readers to the edge of the most important revolution in the study of social behavior in a generation, an entirely new way to look at life itself.

Alex Pentland  | Scribe Publications

29,190원  | 20140410  | 9781922247551

Where do ideas come from? How do they get put into action? How can we create social structures that are productive and creative?

 | Thorsons Publishers

13,610원  | 20051003  | 9780007205707

Bring love, happiness and fulfilment into your own life and those around you, with this gift book of inspirational guidance, quotes and stories of angels and spirits from the other side.

Gould, Stephen Jay  | Random House

0원  | 19971001  | 9780609801406

Few would question the truism that humankind is the crowning achievement of evolution; that the defining thrust of life's history yields progress over time from the primitive and simple to the more advanced and complex; that the disappearance of .400 hitting in baseball is a fact to be bemoaned; or that identifying an existing trend can be helpful in making important life decisions. Few, that is, except Stephen Jay Gould who, in his new book Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, proves that all of these intuitive truths are, in fact, wrong. "All of these mistaken beliefs arise out of the same analytical flaw in our reasoning, our Platonic tendency to reduce a broad spectrum to a single, pinpointed essence," says Gould. "This way of thinking allows us to confirm our most ingrained biases that humans are the supreme being on this planet; that all things are inherently driven to become more complex; and that almost any subject can be expressed and understood in terms of an average." In Full House, Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world (and the history of life) is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation rather than as an isolated "thing" and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this "full house" of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing. When approached in such a way, the disappearance of .400 hitting becomes a cause for celebration, signaling not a decline in greatness but instead an improvement in the overall level of play in baseball; trends become subject to suspicion, and too often, only a tool of those seeking to advance a particular agenda; and the "Age of Man" (a claim rooted in hubris, not in fact) more accurately becomes the "Age of Bacteria." "The traditional mode of thinking has led us to draw many conclusions that don't make satisfying sense," says Gould. "It tells us that .400 hitting has disappeared because batters have gotten worse, but how can that be true when record performances have improved in almost any athletic activity?" In a personal eureka!, Gould realized that we were looking at the picture backward, and that a simple conceptual inversion would resolve a number of the paradoxes of the conventional view. While Full House deftly reveals the shortcomings of the popular reasoning we apply to everyday life situations, Gould also explores his beloved realm of natural history as well. Whether debunking the myth of the successful evolution of the horse (he grants that the story still deserves distinction, but as the icon of evolutionary failure); presenting evidence that the vaunted "progress of life" is really random motion away from simple beginnings, not directed impetus toward complexity; or relegating the kingdoms of Animalai and Plantae to their proper positions on the genealogical chart for all of life (as mere twigs on one of the three bushes), Full House asks nothing less than that we reconceptualize our view of life in a fundamental way. From the Hardcover edition.

 | Self Creative

0원  | 20201108  | 9781801230230

In november 2019, Wuhan in China was struck by a variant of corona viruses called the Novel Coronaviruses (Covid-19) and up to March 2020, has claimed 3,000 lives and infected more than 80,000 people in China alone, and 200,000 across the globe spanning over 25 countries including Japan, Germany, USA, Canada, France, Italy and the UK.?In each case, corona virus outbreaks have followed somewhat similar patterns, moving from animals (mostly bats) and then to their human hosts.

 | Self Creative

0원  | 20201031  | 9781801154994

In november 2019, Wuhan in China was struck by a variant of corona viruses called the Novel Coronaviruses (Covid-19) and up to March 2020, has claimed 3,000 lives and infected more than 80,000 people in China alone, and 200,000 across the globe spanning over 25 countries including Japan, Germany, USA, Canada, France, Italy and the UK.?In each case, corona virus outbreaks have followed somewhat similar patterns, moving from animals (mostly bats) and then to their human hosts.

 | Charlie Creative Lab

0원  | 20201227  | 9781801542579

Have you ever heard of the Spanish Flu, the greatest tragedy in human history?Have you ever imagined living with a new pandemic on your skin?Before the coronavirus,?AIDS, and Ebola, few people knew the true story of the 1918 pandemic, the deadliest virus of all time-even more so than the famous "Black Plague.

 | davide pianezzola

0원  | 20201113  | 9781952681349

⇒ Discover the history of the most famous criminal organization in the World. The Italian Mafia.The Italian Mafia (Cosa nostra)?and affiliated organizations changed and influenced the history of modern society from 1800 up to the present day and this book will talk about?all aspects of this incredible story.

Rajan, Raghuram G./ Zingales, Luigi  | Princeton

84,000원  | 20080416  | 9780691121284

Saving Capitalism from the Capitalistsis a groundbreaking book that will radically change our understanding of the capitalist system, particularly the role of financial markets. They are the catalyst for inspiring human ingenuity and spreading prosperity. The perception of many, especially in the wake of never-ending corporate scandals, is that financial markets are parasitic institutions that feed off the blood, sweat, and tears of the rest of us. The reality is far different. This book breaks free of traditional ideological arguments of the Right and Left and points to a new way of understanding and spreading the extraordinary wealth-generating capabilities of capitalism.

 | Gale ECCO, Print Editions

0원  | 20180422  | 9781385174975

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.

 | Gale ECCO, Print Editions

0원  | 20180429  | 9781385912126

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.

 | Gale ECCO, Print Editions

0원  | 20180425  | 9781385821657

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.