Chaos And Society

Author : A. Albert
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9051992149

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Chaos and Society by A. Albert Pdf

This publication reflects on the discussion on using chaos theory for the study of society. It explores the interface between chaos theory and the social sciences. A broad variety of fields (including Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, Management, Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences) is represented in the book. The leading themes are: Conceptual and Methodological Issues, Social Connectionism and the Connectionist Mind, Social Institutions and Public Policy, and Social Simulations. The book includes the following topics: the relevance of the complexity-chaos paradigm for analyzing social systems, the usefulness of nonlinear dynamics for studying the formation and sustainability of social groups, the comparison between spontaneous social orders and spontaneous biological/natural orders, the building of Artificial Societies, and the contribution of the chaos paradigm to a better understanding and formulation of public policies.

Author : David N Buck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136748295

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Responding to Chaos by David N Buck Pdf

A celebration of a unique culture and its experience of design, this sensitive text is a timely examination of Japanese design at the start of a new century. The country's economic boom in the 1980s produced a surge of interest in land and building, and consequently in design in all its forms. From restaurant interiors to products, from private housing to recreational spaces, design received an unprecedented degree of attention. However the bursting in the early 1990s of this so-called 'bubble' economy has prompted a re-examination of design and its role in urban society.

Author : John Banks,Valentina Dragan,Arthur Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521531047

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Chaos: A Mathematical Introduction by John Banks,Valentina Dragan,Arthur Jones Pdf

Textbook on chaos; class-tested, elementary but rigorous, with applications and lots of pictures and exercises.

Author : Heather Marsh
Publisher : MustRead Inc.
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781989783245

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Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale by Heather Marsh Pdf

The world is long overdue for a completely new system of governance. If there was ever a need for political representation or a paternalistic and opaque authority, it has been removed by technology. Every political system we have tried has proven incapable of protecting human rights and dignity. Every political system we have tried has devolved into oligarchy. To effect the change we require immediately, to give individuals control and responsibility, to bring regional systems under regional governance, allow global collaboration and protect the heritage of future generations, we need a new political model.

Author : Chris Bateman
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781782797692

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Chaos Ethics by Chris Bateman Pdf

Balance has no meaning for a politics that is merely the continuation of war by other means. Both religious zealots and defenders of scientific fact declare a monopoly on truth and the moral law, while radicals are powerless to resist since they have lost faith that ethics can be anything but arbitrary. Meanwhile, insane bureaucracy devastates life while nations fall into dishonor as they abandon their promises of justice. If the moral law cannot save us, perhaps it is time to try moral chaos. Chaos Ethics collides philosophers such as Kant, Nietzsche, Levinas, Mary Midgley, Alasdair MacInytre, Alain Badiou, Isabelle Stengers, and Bruno Latour with everything from cyberpunk science fiction and the fantasy novels of Michael Moorcock to Google, gay marriage, drone assassinations, and the ethics of cats and dogs. A strange and wondrous journey through morality viewed as a facet of imagination that offers a new perspective in which the diversity of ethics is a strength not a weakness, hesitation is more noble than certainty, and virtue can be expressed in both law and chaos.

Author : Robert D. Putnam
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476769905

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Our Kids by Robert D. Putnam Pdf

"The bestselling author of Bowling Alone offers [an] ... examination of the American Dream in crisis--how and why opportunities for upward mobility are diminishing, jeopardizing the prospects of an ever larger segment of Americans"--

Author : Hubert Kleinpeter
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781463463144

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Twisted Society by Hubert Kleinpeter Pdf

Author : Steve Killelea
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781743587157

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Peace in the Age of Chaos by Steve Killelea Pdf

While COVID-19 is reshaping our lives, this must-read book for 2021 provides some of the answers to our most pressing global challenges. Unless the world is basically peaceful, we will never get the trust, cooperation and inclusiveness to solve these issues, yet what creates peace is poorly understood. Working on an aid program in one of the most violent places in the world, North East Kivu in the DR Congo, philanthropist and business leader Steve Killelea asked himself, ‘What are the most peaceful nations?’ Unable to find an answer, he created the world’s leading measure of peace, the Global Peace Index, which receives over 16 billion media impressions annually and has become the definitive go to index for heads of state. Steve Killelea then went on to establish world-renowned think tank, the Institute for Economics and Peace. Today its work is used by organisations such as the World Bank, United Nations and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and taught in thousands of university courses around the world. Peace in the Age of Chaos tells of Steve’s personal journey to measure and understand peace. It explores the practical application of his work, which is gathering momentum at a rapid pace. In this time when we are faced with environmental, social and economic challenges, this book shows us a way forward where Positive Peace, described as creating the optimal environment for human potential to flourish, can lead to a paradigm shift in the ways societies can be managed, making them more resilient and better capable of adapting to their changing environments.

Author : Heidi C. M. Scott
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780271065366

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Chaos and Cosmos by Heidi C. M. Scott Pdf

In Chaos and Cosmos, Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature of the Romantic and Victorian eras uses environmental chaos and the figure of the balanced microcosm as tropes essential to understanding natural patterns, and these eras were the first to reflect upon the ecological degradations of the Industrial Revolution. Chaos and Cosmos contends that the seed of imagination that would enable a scientist to study a lake as a microcosmic world at the formal, empirical level was sown by Romantic and Victorian poets who consciously drew a sphere around their perceptions in order to make sense of spots of time and place amid the globalizing modern world. This study’s interest goes beyond likening literary tropes to scientific aesthetics; it aims to theorize the interdisciplinary history of the concepts that underlie our scientific understanding of modern nature. Paradigmatic ecological ideas such as ecosystems, succession dynamics, punctuated equilibrium, and climate change are shown to have a literary foundation that preceded their status as theories in science. This book represents an elevation of the prospects of ecocriticism toward fully developed interdisciplinary potentials of literary ecology.

Author : Thiago Silva
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 179095892X

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Social Chaos by Thiago Silva Pdf

Global society has become a problem for all of today's nation-states. The population present in a country is never happy with the directions chosen by its rulers, arising the need in some people to persecute other individuals, causing a community injury, this, understood as social disorientation.In all the disgusting ways of trying to silence a human being, perhaps the worst of them, is not the elimination of life, but the attempt to silence his voice through intellectual domination, a sick stratagem borne by the self-obsessed individual This uncontrolled desire to eliminate the manifestation of the freedom of another individual, are very peculiar conditions of the global society in which we live. A society dependent on the relationship to ensure its survival.The emotional uncontrollability of the dominant individual demonstrates the personality of the society in which he lives, may be present in the general community of a country, but the influence of his particular group will affect his way of relating to the peers understood by his person as, individuals to be left in oblivion.This forgetfulness is not felt by the human being to be forgotten, it is felt by the person trying to exclude the inconvenience that the other individual has caused for himself.In this attempt, the elimination of the other in society, disorder arises through internal chaos, leading an entire community to uncontrolled despair, being used by leaders to continue to manage a problematic situation established before its representativeness is socially recognized, disorienting the population. With the disorder installed in the social sphere, the already disoriented population, can not find another way to try to organize the structure of coexistence in the community, then, we began to witness several unpleasant situations for everyone.The present work is a construction through archetypes demonstrating our daily work in interpersonal relationships, the result of research, observation, study in areas of law, psychology, cybernetics and others to support our work.

Author : Mark S. Mosko,Frederick H. Damon
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 184545023X

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On the Order of Chaos by Mark S. Mosko,Frederick H. Damon Pdf

The essays in this volume collectively transform perspectives previously experienced as divergent, conflicting, and inconsistent into a common and complex orientation to problems central to the natural and social sciences involving transitions between order and disorder."--Jacket.

Author : Giovanni Arrighi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0816631522

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Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System by Giovanni Arrighi Pdf

Adopting an historical approach, explores four controversies facing global analyses today: the geography of world power, the power of states versus the power of capital, the social power of subordinate groups, and the changing balance of civilizational power.

Author : Celso Grebogi,James A. Yorke
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Chaotic behavior in systems
ISBN : UCSD:31822031284219

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The Impact of Chaos on Science and Society by Celso Grebogi,James A. Yorke Pdf

Prompted by the growing body of knowledge about chaotic behavior in an increasing number of scientific disciplines, this volume brings together a distinguished group of experts to evaluate the impact that chaos has had on the conduct of science and on our understanding of society.

Author : Flavio Lorenzelli
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780203214589

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The Essence Of Chaos by Flavio Lorenzelli Pdf

The study of chaotic systems has become a major scientific pursuit in recent years, shedding light on the apparently random behaviour observed in fields as diverse as climatology and mechanics. InThe Essence of Chaos Edward Lorenz, one of the founding fathers of Chaos and the originator of its seminal concept of the Butterfly Effect, presents his own landscape of our current understanding of the field. Lorenz presents everyday examples of chaotic behaviour, such as the toss of a coin, the pinball's path, the fall of a leaf, and explains in elementary mathematical strms how their essentially chaotic nature can be understood. His principal example involved the construction of a model of a board sliding down a ski slope. Through this model Lorenz illustrates chaotic phenomena and the related concepts of bifurcation and strange attractors. He also provides the context in which chaos can be related to the similarly emergent fields of nonlinearity, complexity and fractals. As an early pioneer of chaos, Lorenz also provides his own story of the human endeavour in developing this new field. He describes his initial encounters with chaos through his study of climate and introduces many of the personalities who contributed early breakthroughs. His seminal paper, "Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wing in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" is published for the first time.

Author : Isa Blumi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136941184

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Chaos in Yemen by Isa Blumi Pdf

Chaos in Yemen challenges recent interpretations of Yemen’s complex social, political and economic transformations since unification in 1990. By offering a new perspective to the violence afflicting the larger region, it explains why the ‘Abdullah ‘Ali Salih regime has become the principal beneficiary of these conflicts. Adopting an inter-disciplinary approach, the author offers an alternative understanding of what is creating discord in the Red Sea region by integrating the region’s history to an interpretation of current events. In turn, by refusing to solely link Yemen to the "global struggle against Islamists," this work sheds new light on the issues policy-makers are facing in the larger Middle East. As such, this study offers an alternative perspective to Yemen’s complex domestic affairs that challenge the over-emphasis on the tribe and sectarianism. Offering an alternative set of approaches to studying societies facing new forms of state authoritarianism, this timely contribution will be of great relevance to students and scholars of the Middle East and the larger Islamic world, Conflict Resolution, Comparative Politics, and International Relations.