Critical mass : how one thing leads to another : being an enquiry into the interplay of chance and necessity in the way that human culture, customs, institutions, cooperation and conflict arise

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Critical mass : how one thing leads to another : being an enquiry into the interplay of chance and necessity in the way that human culture, customs, institutions, cooperation and conflict arise

Title remainder

how one thing leads to another : being an enquiry into the interplay of chance and necessity in the way that human culture, customs, institutions, cooperation and conflict arise

Statement of responsibility

Philip Ball

Creator

• Ball, Philip, 1962-

Subject

• Natuurwetten
• Sociology
• Besluitvorming
• Human behavior -- Philosophy
• Physics -- Social aspects
• Soziologie
• Sociale interactie
• Organisatie
• Gedrag
• Sociology
• Kollektives Verhalten
• Human behavior -- Philosophy
• Physics -- Social aspects

Language

eng

Summary

According to Donne 'no man is an island' but how exactly are we affected by the behaviour of others? Are there 'laws of nature' that guide human affairs? Have we complete freedom in creating our societies, or are we trapped by 'human nature'? And how, in human affairs, does one thing lead to another?

Cataloging source

AU@

Dewey number

301

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• charts

Index

index present

LC call number

HM585

LC item number

.B35 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Target audience

general