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Critical Mass How One Thing Leads to Another

Paperback • 2006 • English

Critical Mass How One Thing Leads to Another

By Philip Ball

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About the book

Are there "natural laws" that govern the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves, just as there are physical laws that govern the motions of atoms and planets? Unlikely as it may seem, such laws now seem to be emerging from attempts to bring the tools and concepts of physics into the social sciences. These new discoveries are part of an old tradition. In the seventeenth century the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, dismayed by the impending civil war in England, decided that he would work o...Show more

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9780374530419

Publisher

Macmillan

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Critical Mass How One Thing Leads to Another

Format

Paperback

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