Crowded The Crowds

Author : Gustave Le Bon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Crowds
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004881459

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The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon Pdf

Author : James Surowiecki
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307275059

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The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki Pdf

In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, military history, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world.

Author : Camille Bordas
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451497550

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How to Behave in a Crowd by Camille Bordas Pdf

A witty, heartfelt novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks the arrival of an extraordinary young talent. Isidore Mazal is eleven years old, the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town. He doesn't quite fit in. Berenice, Aurore, and Leonard are on track to have doctorates by age twenty-four. Jeremie performs with a symphony, and Simone, older than Isidore by eighteen months, expects a great career as a novelist—she's already put Isidore to work on her biography. The only time they leave their rooms is to gather on the old, stained couch and dissect prime-time television dramas in light of Aristotle's Poetics. Isidore has never skipped a grade or written a dissertation. But he notices things the others don't, and asks questions they fear to ask. So when tragedy strikes the Mazal family, Isidore is the only one to recognize how everyone is struggling with their grief, and perhaps the only one who can help them—if he doesn't run away from home first. Isidore’s unstinting empathy, combined with his simmering anger, makes for a complex character study, in which the elegiac and comedic build toward a heartbreaking conclusion. With How to Behave in a Crowd, Camille Bordas immerses readers in the interior life of a boy puzzled by adulthood and beginning to realize that the adults around him are just as lost.

Author : Eric Barrier,William Griffin
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781617759598

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Move the Crowd by Eric Barrier,William Griffin Pdf

Innovative illustrator Kirk Parrish brings the iconic song "Move the Crowd" to life for the first time as a children's picture book. With knowledge of self, there's nothing I can't solve At 360 degrees I revolve This is actual fact, it's not an act, it's been proven Indeed and I proceed to make the crowd keep moving Innovative illustrator Kirk Parrish brings the iconic song "Move the Crowd" to life for the first time as a children's picture book. The lyrics to Eric B. and Rakim's hit song provide the inspiration for this instant classic. Follow along as Parrish pairs the lyrics with colorful illustrations about a boy being absorbed into his stereo and dropped into a colorless world where the music is dull and the people uninspired. The ensuing transformation he brings to the crowd with his music is one that the whole family can enjoy together.

Author : Nuria Pelechano,Jan M. Allbeck,Mubbasir Kapadia,Norman I. Badler
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781315353050

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Simulating Heterogeneous Crowds with Interactive Behaviors by Nuria Pelechano,Jan M. Allbeck,Mubbasir Kapadia,Norman I. Badler Pdf

This book provides a deep understanding of state-of-art methods for simulation of heterogeneous crowds in computer graphics. It will cover different aspects that are necessary to achieve plausible crowd behaviors. The book will be a review of the most recent literature in this field that can help professionals and graduate students interested in this field to get up to date with the latest contributions, and open problems for their possible future research. The chapter contributors are well known researchers and practitioners in the field and they include their latest contributions in the different topics required to achieve believable heterogeneous crowd simulation.

Author : Judith Paltin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108842235

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Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd by Judith Paltin Pdf

This book argues that literary modernists engaged creatively with modernity's expanding forms of collective experience and performative identities; their work clarifies how popular subjectivity evolves from a nineteenth-century liberal citizenry to the contemporary sense of a range of political multitudes struggling with conditions of oppression.

Author : Valeria Luiselli
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781566893558

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Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli Pdf

Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014 Largehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2014 "An extraordinary new literary talent."--The Daily Telegraph "In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through your nerve endings, opening your eyes and heart. Youth, from unruly student years to early motherhood and a loving marriage--and then, in the book's second half, wilder and something else altogether, the fearless, half-mad imagination of youth, I might as well call it—has rarely been so freshly, charmingly, and unforgettably portrayed. Valeria Luiselli is a masterful, entirely original writer."--Francisco Goldman In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. In Harlem, a translator is desperate to publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet. And in Philadelphia, Gilberto Owen recalls his friendship with Lorca, and the young woman he saw in the windows of passing trains. Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction. "Luiselli's haunting debut novel, about a young mother living in Mexico City who writes a novel looking back on her time spent working as a translator of obscure works at a small independent press in Harlem, erodes the concrete borders of everyday life with a beautiful, melancholy contemplation of disappearance. . . . Luiselli plays with the idea of time and identity with grace and intuition." —Publishers Weekly

Author : Jodi Dean
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781686720

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Crowds and Party by Jodi Dean Pdf

How do mass protests become an organized activist collective? Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets in the past five years into an argument for the political party. Rejecting the emphasis on individuals and multitudes, Jodi Dean argues that we need to rethink the collective subject of politics. When crowds appear in spaces unauthorized by capital and the state—such as in the Occupy movement in New York, London and across the world—they create a gap of possibility. But too many on the Left remain stuck in this beautiful moment of promise—they argue for more of the same, further fragmenting issues and identities, rehearsing the last thirty years of left-wing defeat. In Crowds and Party, Dean argues that previous discussions of the party have missed its affective dimensions, the way it operates as a knot of unconscious processes and binds people together. Dean shows how we can see the party as an organization that can reinvigorate political practice.

Author : Gustave Le Bon
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9791041941179

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The Psychology of Socialism by Gustave Le Bon Pdf

Author : Christian Borch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107009738

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The Politics of Crowds by Christian Borch Pdf

This book analyses sociological discussions on crowds and masses since the late nineteenth century, covering France, Germany and the USA.

Author : Daniel Thalmann,Soraia Raupp Musse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447144502

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Crowd Simulation by Daniel Thalmann,Soraia Raupp Musse Pdf

Research into the methods and techniques used in simulating crowds has developed extensively within the last few years, particularly in the areas of video games and film. Despite recent impressive results when simulating and rendering thousands of individuals, many challenges still exist in this area. The comparison of simulation with reality, the realistic appearance of virtual humans and their behavior, group structure and their motion, and collision avoidance are just some examples of these challenges. For most of the applications of crowds, it is now a requirement to have real-time simulations – which is an additional challenge, particularly when crowds are very large. Crowd Simulation analyses these challenges in depth and suggests many possible solutions. Daniel Thalmann and Soraia Musse share their experiences and expertise in the application of: · Population modeling · Virtual human animation · Behavioral models for crowds · The connection between virtual and real crowds · Path planning and navigation · Visual attention models · Geometric and populated semantic environments · Crowd rendering The second edition presents techniques and methods developed since the authors first covered the simulation of crowds in 2007. Crowd Simulation includes in-depth discussions on the techniques of path planning, including a new hybrid approach between navigation graphs and potential-based methods. The importance of gaze attention – individuals appearing conscious of their environment and of others – is introduced, and a free-of-collision method for crowds is also discussed.

Author : G. Keith Still
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466579644

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Introduction to Crowd Science by G. Keith Still Pdf

Includes Case Studies from a Range of Event Sites Introduction to Crowd Science examines the growing rate of crowd-related accidents and incidents around the world. Using tools, methods, and worked examples gleaned from over 20 years of experience, this text provides an understanding of crowd safety. It establishes how crowd accidents and incidents (specifically mass fatalities in crowded spaces) can occur. The author explores the underlying causes and implements techniques for crowd risk analysis and crowd safety engineering that can help minimize and even eliminate occurrences altogether. Understand Overall Crowd Dynamics and Levels of Complex Structure The book outlines a simple modeling approach to crowd risk analysis and crowds safety in places of public assembly. With consideration for major events, and large-scale urban environments, the material focuses on the practical elements of developing the crowd risk analysis and crowd safety aspects of an event plan. It outlines a range of modeling techniques, including line diagrams that represent crowd flow, calculations of the speed at which a space can fill, and the time it takes for that space to reach critical and crush density. It also determines what to consider during the event planning and approval (licensing/permitting) phases of the event process. Introduction to Crowd Science addresses key questions and presents a systematic approach to managing crowd risks in complex sites. It provides an understanding of the complexity of a site, that helps youplan for crowds in public places.

Author : Rachel Kushner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982157692

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The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner Pdf

A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.

Author : Adam Sol
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780887846885

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Crowd of Sounds by Adam Sol Pdf

"In these lyric poems technique, emotional pitch, and intellect combine in sublime balance. Exhilarating in its range, the work of Adam Sol is gentle and mournful, attuned to physical surroundings, and full of erotic joy, erotic threat, history, elegy, comic absurdity, and acts of disturbing ventriloquism—all stitched together with a tightly scored thematic coherence. These poems are about music, but they are also about the silence it breaks and the inevitable recurrence of that silence."

Author : Ann Majchrzak,Arvind Malhotra
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030255572

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Unleashing the Crowd by Ann Majchrzak,Arvind Malhotra Pdf

This book disrupts the way practitioners and academic scholars think about crowds, crowdsourcing, innovation, and new organizational forms in this emerging period of ubiquitous access to the internet. The authors argue that the current approach to crowdsourcing unnecessarily limits the crowd to offering ideas, locking out those of us with knowledge about a problem. They use data from 25 case studies of flash crowds — anonymous strangers answering online announcements to participate in a 7-10 day innovation challenge — half of whom were unleashed from the limitations of focusing on ideas. Yet, these crowds were able to develop new business models, new product lines, and offer useful solutions to global problems in fields as diverse as health care insurance, software development, and societal change. This book, which offers a theory of collective production of innovative solutions explaining the practices that the crowds organically followed, will revolutionize current assumptions about how innovation and crowdsourcing should be managed for commercial as well as societal purposes.