Bursts The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your e-Mail to Bloody Crusades

Name: Bursts The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your e-Mail to Bloody Crusades
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780452297180

ISBN-10: 0452297184

ISBN-13: 9780452297180

Edition: N/A

Authors: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

List price: $24.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy used: $7.87

Buy new: $21.96

Marketplace

4 new & used from $4.21

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

The bestselling author of Linkedreturns with a ground breaking new theory that will enthrall fans of The Tipping Point Can we scientifically predict our future? It's a mystery that has nagged scientists for perhaps thousand of years. Now Albert-L#xE1;szl#xF3; Barab#xE1;si-the award-winning author of the sleeper hit Linked- explains how the digital age has yielded a massive, previously unavailable data set that proves the daily pattern of human activity isn't random, it's "bursty." We work and fight and play in short flourishes of activity followed by next to nothing. Compellingly illustrated with the account of a bloody medieval crusade in sixteenth-century Transylvania and the modern tale…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/31/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.44" wide x 8.34" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Barabasi is the Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame and directs research on complex networks.




The Best Bodyguard in the Business



A Pope Is Elected in Rome



The Mystery of Random Motion



Duel in Belgrade



The Future Is Not Yet Searchable



Bloody Prophecy



Prediction or Prophecy



A Crusade at Last



Violence, Random and Otherwise



An Unforeseen Massacre



Deadly Quarrels and the Power Laws



The Nagylak Battle



The Origin of Bursts



Accidents Don't Happen to Crucifixes



The Man Who Taught Himself to Swim by Reading



An Investigation



Trailing the Albatross



ï¿½Villain!ï¿½



The Patterns of Human Mobility



Revolution Now



Predictably Unpredictable



A Diversion in Transylvania



The Truth about LifeLinear



Szekler Against Szekler



Feeling Sick Is Not a Priority



The Final Battles



The Third Ear



Flesh and Blood


Notes


Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Index