Critical mass: how one thing leads to another (Record no. 169669)
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 9780099457862 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 301 BAL |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | "Ball, Philips" |
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Critical mass: how one thing leads to another |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Arrow Books |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2005 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | 644p. |
365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
Price amount | 599 |
365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
Unit of pricing | RS |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | Is there a 'physics of society'? Philip Ball's investigation into human nature ranges from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, across economics, sociology and psychology. Ball shows how much of human behaviour we can understand when we cease trying to predict and analyse the behaviour of individuals and look to the impact of hundreds, thousands or millions of individual human decisions, in circumstances in which human beings both co-operate and conflict, when their aggregate behaviour is constructive and when it is destructive. By perhaps Britain's leading young science writer, this is a deeply thought-provoking book, causing us to examine our own behaviour, whether in buying the new Harry Potter book, voting for a particular party or responding to the lures of advertiser |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Sociology |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Koha item type | Books |
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Not Missing | Not Damaged | Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2020-02-08 | 599.00 | 301 BAL | 151668 | 2020-02-08 | 599.00 | 2020-02-08 | Books |