al readers how Complexity--the watershed science agenda for at least the nexttwo decades--is affecting our lives.

In each generation, scientists must redefine their fields: abstracting, simplifying and distilling the previous standard topics to make room for new advances and methods. Sethna's book takes this step for statistical mechanics - a field rooted in physics and chemistry whose ideas and methods are now central to information theory, complexity, and modern biology. Aimed at advance...(展开全部)

Statistical mechanics is our tool for deriving the laws that emerge from complex systems. Sethna's text distills the subject to be accessible to those in all realms of science and engineering — avoiding extensive use of quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and molecular physics. Statistical mechanics explains how bacteria search for food, and how DNA replication is proof-read in ...(展开全部)

Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines–from biology to physics, computing to meteorology–than that known as chaos and complexity, the study of complex systems. Now astrophysicist John Gribbin draws on his expertise to explore, in prose that communicates not only the wonder but the substance of ...(展开全部)

David Friedman has never taken an economics class in his life. Sure, he's taught economics at UCLA. Chicago, Tulane, Cornell, and Santa Clara, but don't hold that against him. After all, everyone's an economist. We all make daily decisions that rely, consciously or not, on an acute understanding of economic theory--from picking the fastest checkout tine at the supermarket to ...(展开全部)

David Friedman has never taken an economics class in his life. Sure, he's taught economics at UCLA. Chicago, Tulane, Cornell, and Santa Clara, but don't hold that against him. After all, everyone's an economist. We all make daily decisions that rely, consciously or not, on an acute understanding of economic theory--from picking the fastest checkout tine at the supermarket to vo...(展开全部)

How big does a home really need to be? When Henry decides to build a cabin for himself in the woods, he gets some help and a lot of advice from his friends. But Henry, being Henry, has his own ideas, and he sets about building his house as a bird builds its nest. As he adds everything he thinks his cabin needs, Henry's new home ends up being a lot bigger than it looks Inspired...(展开全部)

罗伯特·C.埃里克森（Robert C.Ellickson），美国当代杰出的财产和城市法学者，耶鲁大学法学院沃尔特·梅耶财产和城市法讲席教授（2015年荣休）。研究主要集中在产权、城市规划和法律与社会规范三个领域，在上述领域皆有经典作品传世，也是被引用多的学者之一。他早年就读于奥柏林学院、耶鲁法学院和麻省理工学院的城市与区域规划系。自1970年起，埃里克森教授先后执教于南加州大学、斯坦福大学和耶鲁大学，在1988年转至耶鲁法学院任教后，常年讲授已经成为耶鲁法学院经典课程的“财产法”。埃里克森是美国法律经济学协会的创始会员，并担任协会主席（2000-2001年），曾获得该协会授予的罗纳德·科斯奖章，系继波斯纳、卡拉布雷西、史蒂文·萨维尔后第四位获此殊荣的学者。埃里克森教授还担任过美国法律协会财产法重述项目的顾问，并且是美国艺术与科学院院士。埃里克森教授...(展开全部)

Robert Ellickson shows that law is far less important than is generally thought. He demonstrates that people largely govern themselves by means of informal rules - social norms - without the aid of a state or other central coordinator. Integrating the latest scholarship in law, economics, sociology, game theory and anthropology, Ellickson investigates the uncharted world within...(展开全部)