Everyone knows the small-world phenomenon: soon after meeting a stranger, we are surprised to discover that we have a mutual friend, or we are connected through a short chain of acquaintances. In his book, Duncan Watts uses this intriguing phenomenon - colloquially called 'six degrees of separation' - as a prelude to a more general exploration: under what conditions can a small...(展开全部)

連結》存在於實體與虛擬網絡裡，生活中無所不在，透過研究並發掘出潛伏的規律，將為人類帶來新視野。 1999年，美國國家工程科學院向60個專業學會發出問卷，請他們推薦20世紀最偉大的工程成就，初步名單竟然長達105個項目，最後工程學院從中選出了20項最傑出的貢獻，你也許會以為電腦或者人類登月是首屈一指的功績，但是排名榜上高居第一的卻是廣泛的電氣化，特別是北美的電流網路。 今年8月14日的傍晚，在極短的時間裡，20世紀最偉大的工程傑作就眼睜睜地大出紕漏，東起紐約西至克里夫蘭，更橫跨到加拿大境內，當夜幕漸漸低垂之際，卻不見萬家燈火冉冉升起，反而是歸家民眾有如難民潮般，在迷茫與憂慮的心情中，游動在黑暗的紐約大道上。 北美電流網路到底發生了什麼差錯，因而引發了大規模的停電，一時根本沒有人搞得清楚，最偉大工程傑作的電流網路，也許只能用想像的方式來讚嘆它的宏偉規模，...(展开全部)

From the Internet to networks of friendship, disease transmission, and even terrorism, the concept - and the reality - of networks has come to pervade modern society. But what exactly is a network? What different types of networks are there? Why are they interesting, and what can they tell us? In recent years, scientists from a range of fields - including mathematics, physics, ...(展开全部)

Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious, and political affiliations were all at play in the struggle for power in Anato...(展开全部)

This book, the first of two monographs exploring Thucydides, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on political order, using the Peloponnesian War to explore the historiography and political development of the ancient world. These scholars analyze the original source material of the Athenian order and interpretations of such material.

Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics. In this magisterial book, one of America's most important contemporary theorists draws on decades of research and thought to present the first work that fully connects Tocqueville's political and theoretical lives. In ...(展开全部)

For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it's not surprising that we persist in thinking that we're in with a chance, whether we're playing the lottery or working out the likelihood of extra-terrestrial life. In Chance, a (not entirely) random selection of the New Scie...(展开全部)

The interplay between computability and randomness has been an active area of research in recent years, reflected by ample funding in the USA, numerous workshops, and publications on the subject. The complexity and the randomness aspect of a set of natural numbers are closely related. Traditionally, computability theory is concerned with the complexity aspect. However, computab...(展开全部)

Olaf Sporns is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Adjunct Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing, a member of the programs in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, and Head of the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Indiana University Bloomington.

Over the last decade, the study of complex networks has expanded across diverse scientific fields. Increasingly, science is concerned with the structure, behavior, and evolution of complex systems ranging from cells to ecosystems. Modern network approaches are beginning to reveal fundamental principles of brain architecture and function, and in Networks of the Brain, Olaf Sporn...(展开全部)