X-Events: The Collapse of Everything - Rilegato

Casti, John

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ISBN 10: 0062088289 ISBN 13: 9780062088284

Casa editrice: William Morrow & Co, 2012

Riassunto

Revealing how our world has become vulnerable to a sudden, spectacular collapse due to our reliance on technology, this timely resource provides a chilling tour of the catastrophic outlier scenario that could send us crashing back to the pre-industrial age. 50,000 first printing

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Recensione:

“I am assiduous reader of John Casti’s books. He is a real scientific intellectual.” (NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB, author of The Black Swan)

“One of America’s greatest pioneers of simulation.” (London Times)

L'autore:

One of the pioneers of complexity science and systems theory, John L. Casti, Ph.D., is Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, where he heads an initiative on Extreme Events in Human Society. He worked for many years at the Sante Fe Institute and The RAND Corporation, as well as serving on the faculties of Princeton, the University of Arizona, and New York University. A former editor of the journal Complexity, Casti has published nearly 20 volumes of academic and popular science and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Southern California. He lives in Vienna, Austria.

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• Editore: William Morrow & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062088289
• ISBN 13: 9780062088284
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 326