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Science with street value a physicist's wanderings off the beaten track /
In his groundbreaking book Predictions: Society's Telltale Signature Reveals the Past and Forecasts the Future, Theodore Modis showed readers a fascinating new way to understand our society and ourselves by applying fundamental scientific concepts to predicting social phenomena. Now he pushes h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[S.l.] :
Ibidem Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- 1
- Signs of Disenchantment
- 2
- There Cannot Be Magic
- 3
- Precocious Cross-Disciplinarity
- 4
- The Order of Mendios
- 5
- Hypnosis Demystified
- 6
- A Weirdoes Filing Cabinet
- 7
- Making Contact with the G. Institute
- 8
- Running after Entropy on Saturday Morning
- 9
- Why Is the Sky Dark at Night?
- 10
- Make Space for Time
- 11
- Intricate Aspects of Time
- 12
- The Humanities of Science
- 13
- Accidents, Karma, Destiny, Miracles
- 14
- As Above so Below
- 15
- Mathematics with Social Use
- 16
- The Power of Attention
- 17
- Love Science
- 18
- The Opposite of a Great Truth Is another Great Truth
- 19
- Opposites Meet
- 20
- Life Feeds on Differences
- 21
- The Harmony in Moderation
- 22
- The Symbolism of the Cross
- 23
- Mind over Body
- 24
- If I can, I want
- 25
- Management Science
- 26
- The S-Shaped Adventure
- 27
- Using S-Curves to Unearth Secrets
- 28
- Symmetries and Invariants
- 29
- The Shape of Things
- 30
- Natural Growth in Competition
- 31
- Showing Off at Conferences
- 32
- Publishing for Fun, not for Survival
- 33
- Entelechy
- 34
- One Cannot Part with Knowledge, Much Less with Understanding
- 35
- Setting Straight the AIDS Threat
- 36
- Scientific Certification
- 37
- A Down-to-Earth Nobel Laureate
- 38
- Fallout
- 39
- Growth Dynamics
- 40
- ""If winter is here, can spring be far behind?"" Percy B. Shelley
- 41
- Scientifically Sanitized Biorhythms
- 42
- A Leadership School Experiment
- 43
- Insights into Fluctuations
- 44
- Accelerating Trends and The Singularity Myth
- 45
- A Paradise Paradigm
- 46
- Science with Street Value
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index