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Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)
Simplexity Why Simple Things Become Complex - and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple
Author: Jeffrey Kluger
"Sure to be a deserved hit among the ever-growing Freakonomics crowd." — --Booklist "Kluger makes the modern world comprehensible." — --Publishers Weekly "A fascinating journey." — --Library Journal Sometimes a complex problem has an easy solution. And sometimes there's more to a simple thing than first appea...  more » In Simplexity, Time senior writer Jeffrey Kluger shows how a drinking straw can save thousands of lives, how a million cars can be on the streets but just a few hundred of them can lead to gridlock, how investors behave like atoms; how arithmetic governs abstract art and physics drives jazz, and why swatting a TV indeed makes it work better. Kluger adeptly translates newly evolving science into a delightful theory of everything that will have you rethinking the rules of business, family, art--your world.
ISBN-13: 9781401309930
ISBN-10: 1401309933
Publication Date: 6/16/2009
Pages: 336
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Hyperion
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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