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Critical Transitions In Nature And Society

by Marten Scheffer

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 Offers an introduction to critical transitions in complex systems - the radical changes that happen at tipping points when thresholds are passed. This title describes the dynamical systems theory behind critical transitions, covering catastrophe theory, bifurcations and chaos.
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Emergent Actors In World Politics - How States And Nations Develop And Dissolve

by Lars-Erik Cederman

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 The disappearance and formation of states and nations after the end of the Cold War have proved puzzling to both theorists and policymakers. Lars-Erik Cederman argues that this lack of conceptual preparation stems from two tendencies in conventional theorizing. First, the dominant focus on cohesive nation-states as the only actors of world politics obscures crucial differences between the state and the nation. Second, traditional theory usually treats these units as fixed. Cederman offers a fresh way of analyzing world politics: complex adaptive systems modeling. He provides a new series of models--not ones that rely on rational-choice, but rather computerized thought-experiments--that separate the state from the nation and incorporate these as emergent rather than preconceived actors. This theory of the emergent actor shifts attention away from the exclusively behavioral focus of conventional international relations theory toward a truly dynamic perspective that treats the actors of world politics as dependent rather than independent variables. Cederman illustrates that while structural realist predictions about unit-level invariance hold up under certain circumstances, they are heavily dependent on fierce power competition, which can result in unipolarity instead of the balance of power. He provides a thorough examination of the processes of nationalist mobilization and coordination in multi-ethnic states. Cederman states that such states'' efforts to instill loyalty in their ethnically diverse populations may backfire, and that, moreover, if the revolutionary movement is culturally split, its identity becomes more inclusive as the power gap in the imperial center''s favor increases.
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Islands Of Order - A Guide To Complexity Modeling For The Social Sciences

by J. Stephen Lansing e Murray P. Cox

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 Two pioneering anthropologists reveal how complexity science can help us better understand how societies change over timeOver the past two decades, anthropologist J. Stephen Lansing and geneticist Murray Cox have explored dozens of villages on the islands of the Malay Archipelago, combining ethnographic research with research into genetic and l
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Dynamics Of Risk - Changing Technologies And Collective Action In Seismic Events

by Louise K. Comfort

50,35€ + 10% CARD

 Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries, severe seismic risks threaten populations and their increasingly interdependent systems of transportation, communication, energy, and finance. In this important book, Louise Comfort provides an unprecedented examination of how twelve communities in nine countries responded to destructiv
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Small Worlds - The Dynamics Of Networks Between Order And Randomness

by Duncan J. Watts

59,63€ + 10% CARD

 Uses the phenomenon called 'six degrees of separation' as a prelude to a more general exploration: under what conditions can a small world arise in any kind of network? This book is intended for a variety of fields, including physics and mathematics, as well as sociology, economics, and biology.
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Historical Dynamics - Why States Rise And Fall

by Peter Turchin

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists have made great strides in understanding dynamical processes in the physical and biological worlds using a synthetic approach that combines mathematical modeling with statistical analyses. Taking up the p
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Historical Dynamics - Why States Rise And Fall

by Peter Turchin

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 Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists have made great strides in understanding dynamical processes in the physical and biological worlds using a synthetic approach that combines mathematical modeling with statistical analyses. Taking up the p
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The Structure And Dynamics Of Networks

by Albert-László Barabási, Duncan J. Watts e Mark Newman

125,88€ + 10% CARD

 Scientists from various fields - including mathematics, physics, computer science, sociology, and biology - have been pursuing questions on networks and building a 'science of networks.' This book brings together a set of articles representing research from across these disciplines. It is suitable for research on various types of networks.
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Agent_Zero - Toward Neurocognitive Foundations For Generative Social Science

by Joshua M. Epstein

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 Introduces a theoretical entity: Agent_Zero. This title weaves a computational tapestry with threads from Plato, Hume, Darwin, Pavlov, Smith, Tolstoy, Marx, James, and Dostoevsky, among others.
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Complex Adaptive Systems - An Introduction To Computational Models Of Social Life

by John H. Miller e Scott E. Page

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 This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field''s leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive explanations, Complex Adaptive Systems focuses on the key tools and ideas that have emerged in the field since the mid-1990s, as well as the techniques needed to investigate such systems. It provides a detailed introduction to concepts such as emergence, self-organized criticality, automata, networks, diversity, adaptation, and feedback. It also demonstrates how complex adaptive systems can be explored using methods ranging from mathematics to computational models of adaptive agents. John Miller and Scott Page show how to combine ideas from economics, political science, biology, physics, and computer science to illuminate topics in organization, adaptation, decentralization, and robustness. They also demonstrate how the usual extremes used in modeling can be fruitfully transcended.
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Complexity Of Cooperation - Agent-Based Models Of Competition And Collaboration

by Robert Axelrod

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 Robert Axelrod is widely known for his groundbreaking work in game theory and complexity theory. He is a leader in applying computer modeling to social science problems. His book The Evolution of Cooperation has been hailed as a seminal contribution and has been translated into eight languages since its initial publication. The Complexity of Cooperation is a sequel to that landmark book. It collects seven essays, originally published in a broad range of journals, and adds an extensive new introduction to the collection, along with new prefaces to each essay and a useful new appendix of additional resources. Written in Axelrod''s acclaimed, accessible style, this collection serves as an introductory text on complexity theory and computer modeling in the social sciences and as an overview of the current state of the art in the field. The articles move beyond the basic paradigm of the Prisoner''s Dilemma to study a rich set of issues, including how to cope with errors in perception or implementation, how norms emerge, and how new political actors and regions of shared culture can develop. They use the shared methodology of agent-based modeling, a powerful technique that specifies the rules of interaction between individuals and uses computer simulation to discover emergent properties of the social system. The Complexity of Cooperation is essential reading for all social scientists who are interested in issues of cooperation and complexity.
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Perfect Order - Recognizing Complexity In Bali

by J. Stephen Lansing

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 Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution
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Generative Social Science - Studies In Agent-Based Computational Modeling

by Joshua M. Epstein

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 Agent-based computational modeling is changing the face of social science. In Generative Social Science, Joshua Epstein argues that this powerful, novel technique permits the social sciences to meet a fundamentally new standard of explanation, in which one "grows" the phenomenon of interest in an artificial society of interacting agents: heterogeneous, boundedly rational actors, represented as mathematical or software objects. After elaborating this notion of generative explanation in a pair of overarching foundational chapters, Epstein illustrates it with examples chosen from such far-flung fields as archaeology, civil conflict, the evolution of norms, epidemiology, retirement economics, spatial games, and organizational adaptation. In elegant chapter preludes, he explains how these widely diverse modeling studies support his sweeping case for generative explanation. This book represents a powerful consolidation of Epstein''s interdisciplinary research activities in the decade since the publication of his and Robert Axtell''s landmark volume, Growing Artificial Societies. Beautifully illustrated, Generative Social Science includes a CD that contains animated movies of core model runs, and programs allowing users to easily change assumptions and explore models, making it an invaluable text for courses in modeling at all levels.
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Party Competition - An Agent-Based Model

by Ernest Sergenti e Michael Laver

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 Party competition for votes in free and fair elections involves complex interactions by multiple actors in political landscapes. This title offers a comprehensive treatment of party competition using the computational techniques of agent-based modeling. It shows how agent-based modeling can be used to reflect how political systems really work.
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Critical Transitions In Nature And Society

by Marten Scheffer

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 Offers an introduction to critical transitions in complex systems - the radical changes that happen at tipping points when thresholds are passed. This title describes the dynamical systems theory behind critical transitions, covering catastrophe theory, bifurcations and chaos.
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Robustness And Evolvability In Living Systems

by Andreas Wagner

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 Explores why genetic changes do not cause organisms to fail catastrophically and how evolution shapes organisms' robustness. This book looks at this problem, starting with the alphabet of DNA, the genetic code, RNA, and protein molecules, moving on to genetic networks and embryonic development, and working his way up to whole organisms.
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Complex Adaptive Systems - An Introduction To Computational Models Of Social Life

by John H. Miller e Scott Page

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 Provides an account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. This work focuses on the key tools and ideas that have emerged in the field since the mid-1990s, as well as the techniques needed to investigate such systems. It also demonstrates how the usual extremes used in modeling can be fruitfully transcended.
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The Structure And Dynamics Of Networks

by Albert-László Barabási, Duncan J. Watts e Mark Newman

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 Scientists from various fields - including mathematics, physics, computer science, sociology, and biology - have been pursuing questions on networks and building a 'science of networks.' This book brings together a set of articles representing research from across these disciplines. It is suitable for research on various types of networks.
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Historical Dynamics - Why States Rise And Fall

by Peter Turchin

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 Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics - why some polities at certain times expand and at other times contract - this book shows that a similar research program can advance our understanding of dynamical processes in history. It investigates the dynamics predicted by the models, and contrasts model predictions with empirical patterns.
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Rome'S Patron - The Lives And Afterlives Of Maecenas

by Emily Gowers

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Write Like A Man - Jewish Masculinity And The New York Intellectuals

by Ronnie A. Grinberg

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The Econometrics Of Financial Markets

by A. Craig Mackinlay, Andrew W. Lo e John Y. Campbell

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Islands Of Order - A Guide To Complexity Modeling For The Social Sciences

by J. Stephen Lansing e Murray P. Cox

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 Two pioneering anthropologists reveal how complexity science can help us better understand how societies change over timeOver the past two decades, anthropologist J. Stephen Lansing and geneticist Murray Cox have explored dozens of villages on the islands of the Malay Archipelago, combining ethnographic research with research into genetic and l
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The Dynamics Of Risk - Changing Technologies And Collective Action In Seismic Events

by Louise K. Comfort

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 Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries, severe seismic risks threaten populations and their increasingly interdependent systems of transportation, communication, energy, and finance. In this important book, Louise Comfort provides an unprecedented examination of how twelve communities in nine countries responded to destructiv
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