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Author : Claire Bidart,Alain Degenne,Michel Grossetti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781108841436
Innovative study examining how relationships and personal networks evolve throughout life, and how these connect individuals and society.
Author : Ross Dawson
Publisher : FT Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0130353337
This text examines how the rise of business connectivity and integration is transforming how companies work and achieve success. The author advocates clear leadership as he goes on to provide a framework for developing a strategy for a flow economy.
Author : Bernice Pescosolido,Edward B. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108839976
Combines classic and cutting-edge scholarship on personal social networks. A must-have resource for both newcomers and seasoned experts.
Author : David Ehrlichman
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523091706
This practical guide shows how to facilitate collaboration among diverse individuals and organizations to navigate complexity and create change in our interconnected world. The social and environmental challenges we face today are not only complex, they are also systemic and structural and have no obvious solutions. They require diverse combinations of people, organizations, and sectors to coordinate actions and work together even when the way forward is unclear. Even so, collaborative efforts often fail because they attempt to navigate complexity with traditional strategic plans, created by hierarchies that ignore the way people naturally connect. By embracing a living-systems approach to organizing, impact networks bring people together to build relationships across boundaries; leverage the existing work, skills, and motivations of the group; and make progress amid unpredictable and ever-changing conditions. As a powerful and flexible organizing system that can span regions, organizations, and silos of all kinds, impact networks underlie some of the most impressive and large-scale efforts to create change across the globe. David Ehrlichman draws on his experience as a network builder; interviews with dozens of network leaders; and insights from the fields of network science, community building, and systems thinking to provide a clear process for creating and developing impact networks. Given the increasing complexity of our society and the issues we face, our ability to form, grow, and work through networks has never been more essential.
Author : Peter Wohlleben
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781771643894
“As you read these pages you will understand why I so admire [Peter Wohlleben] and am so in love with his work.”—JANE GOODALL Nature is full of surprises: deciduous trees affect the rotation of the Earth, cranes sabotage the production of Iberian ham, and coniferous forests can make it rain. But what are the processes that drive these incredible phenomena? And why do they matter? In The Secret Wisdom of Nature, master storyteller and international sensation Peter Wohlleben takes readers on a thought-provoking exploration of the vast natural systems that make life on Earth possible. In this tour of an almost unfathomable world, Wohlleben describes the fascinating interplay between animals and plants and answers such questions as: How do they influence each other? Do lifeforms communicate across species boundaries? And what happens when this finely tuned system gets out of sync? By introducing us to the latest scientific discoveries and recounting his own insights from decades of observing nature, one of the world’s most famous foresters shows us how to recapture our sense of awe so we can see the world around us with completely new eyes. Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.
Author : Barry Wellman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429967269
Networks in the Global Village examines how people live through personal communities: their networks of friends, neighbors, relatives, and coworkers. It is the first book to compare the communities of people around the world. Major social differences between and within the First, Second, and Third Worlds affect the opportunities and insecurities w
Author : David Easley,Jon Kleinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781139490306
Are all film stars linked to Kevin Bacon? Why do the stock markets rise and fall sharply on the strength of a vague rumour? How does gossip spread so quickly? Are we all related through six degrees of separation? There is a growing awareness of the complex networks that pervade modern society. We see them in the rapid growth of the internet, the ease of global communication, the swift spread of news and information, and in the way epidemics and financial crises develop with startling speed and intensity. This introductory book on the new science of networks takes an interdisciplinary approach, using economics, sociology, computing, information science and applied mathematics to address fundamental questions about the links that connect us, and the ways that our decisions can have consequences for others.
Author : Barry Wellman
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813368219
Networks in the Global Village examines how people live through personal communities: their networks of friends, neighbors, relatives, and coworkers. It is the first book to compare the communities of people around the world. Major social differences between and within the First, Second, and Third Worlds affect the opportunities and insecurities with which individuals and households must deal, the supportive resources they seek, and the ways in which markets, institutions, and networks structure access to these resources. Each article written by a resident shows how living in a country affects the ways in which people use networks to access resources.Most people's ties in the developed world are not with neighbors but are widely dispersed. Unlike traditional studies of communities, social network analysis can identify the flourishing personal communities that people do have, no matter how far their ties may stretch and how fragmented their communities may be.Social networks are one of the principal means by which people and households acquire resources—either directly, through informal exchanges, or indirectly, by providing information on how to access the services provided by governments and other institutions. Networks in the Global Village focuses on how people use these networks around the world.
Author : Patrick Doreian,Vladimir Batagelj,Anuska Ferligoj
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521840856
This book provides an integrated treatment of generalized blockmodeling appropriate for the analysis network structures.
Author : Norbert F. Schneider,Beate Collet
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783866498488
Job-related spatial mobility is a subject of great importance in Europe. But how mobile are the Europeans? What are the consequences of professional mobility for quality of life, family life and social relationships? For the first time these questions are analysed on the basis of the data of a large-scale European survey. This vo l - ume analyses the causes and determinants of job mobility and their individual and societal consequences in cross-national comparison.
Author : Albert-László Barabási,Jennifer Frangos
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465038619
The best-selling guide to network science, the revolutionary field that reveals the deep links between all forms of human social life A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. In Linked, Albert-Lálórabá, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations, and living organisms are more similar than previously thought. Barabá shows that grasping a full understanding of network science will someday allow us to design blue-chip businesses, stop the outbreak of deadly diseases, and influence the exchange of ideas and information. Just as James Gleick and the Erdos-Réi model brought the discovery of chaos theory to the general public, Linked tells the story of the true science of the future and of experiments in statistical mechanics on the internet, all vital parts of what would eventually be called the Barabá-Albert model.
Author : C. P. M. Knipscheer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X006056603
Author : Victoria Meadows,Giada Arney,Britney Schmidt,David J. Des Marais
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816540068
Are we alone in the universe? How did life arise on our planet? How do we search for life beyond Earth? These profound questions excite and intrigue broad cross sections of science and society. Answering these questions is the province of the emerging, strongly interdisciplinary field of astrobiology. Life is inextricably tied to the formation, chemistry, and evolution of its host world, and multidisciplinary studies of solar system worlds can provide key insights into processes that govern planetary habitability, informing the search for life in our solar system and beyond. Planetary Astrobiology brings together current knowledge across astronomy, biology, geology, physics, chemistry, and related fields, and considers the synergies between studies of solar systems and exoplanets to identify the path needed to advance the exploration of these profound questions. Planetary Astrobiology represents the combined efforts of more than seventy-five international experts consolidated into twenty chapters and provides an accessible, interdisciplinary gateway for new students and seasoned researchers who wish to learn more about this expanding field. Readers are brought to the frontiers of knowledge in astrobiology via results from the exploration of our own solar system and exoplanetary systems. The overarching goal of Planetary Astrobiology is to enhance and broaden the development of an interdisciplinary approach across the astrobiology, planetary science, and exoplanet communities, enabling a new era of comparative planetology that encompasses conditions and processes for the emergence, evolution, and detection of life.
Author : Pnina O. Plaut,Dalit Shach-Pinsly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429949722
This book brings together conceptual and empirical insights to explore the interconnections between social networks based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and travel behaviour in urban environments. Over the past decade, rapid development of ICT has led to extensive social impacts and influence on travel and mobility patterns within urban spaces. A new field of research of digital social networks and travel behaviour is now emerging. This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge, cutting-edge research and integrated analysis methods from the fields of social networks, travel behaviour and urban analysis. It explores the challenges related to the question of how we can synchronize among social networks activities, transport means, intelligent communication/information technologies and the urban form. This innovative book encourages multidisciplinary insights and fusion among three disciplines of social networks, travel behaviour and urban analysis. It offers new horizons for research and will be of interest to students and scholars studying mobilities, transport studies, urban geography, urban planning, the built environment and urban policy.
Author : A Network for Grateful Living
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781635860634
A Network for Grateful Living curates this collection of quotes and reflections aiming to help you discover that the roots of happiness lie in gratefulness. Inspiration from well-known minds such as Maya Angelou, Confucius, and Anne Frank is combined with original reflections and practices that will help you recognize the abundance of everyday opportunities for gratitude and joy. Hand-lettered art makes this beautifully designed collection a gift to treasure, regardless of whether you keep it for yourself or give it to a loved one.
