Screen LibraryDisrupted networks：from physics to climate change
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World Scientific,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore Hackensack, NJ |
| Publication Dates: | c2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life science ; v. 13 |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 301 p.: ill. (some col.), map (col.) ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9789814304306 9814304301 |
| Index Number: | N945 |
| CLC: | N945.1 |
| Call Number: | N945.1/W516 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-287) and index. "This book provides a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability. One way to achieve this understanding is through the development of a new kind of science, one that is not explicitly dependent on the traditional disciplines of biology, economics, physics, sociology and so on; a science of networks. This text reviews, in non-mathematical language, what we know about the development of science in the twenty-first century and how that knowledge influences our world. In addition, it distinguishes the two-tiered science of the twentieth century, ba |