| Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades Contributor(s): Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0452297184 ISBN-13: 9780452297180 Publisher: Plume Books OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | System Theory - Social Science | Future Studies - Psychology | Social Psychology |
| Dewey: 303.490 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.56" W x 8.36" (0.59 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The bestselling author of Linked returns 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 szl Barab 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 of a contemporary artist hunted by the FBI, Bursts reveals that we are far more predictable than we like to think. |