Harrison C. White is one of American sociology's preeminent thinkers, yet until now his endeavour to develop a general theoretical perspective on the basis of social network analysis has remained largely unexamined. This book opens out for the first time White's contribution to those interested generally in his social network approach, but daunted by the complexity and mathemat...(展开全部)

弗里德里希·克拉默，1923年生，1950年起任海德堡大学讲师，1959年任达姆施塔特大学有机化学教授，1962～1991年任马克斯·普朗克实验医学研究所所长，同时任不伦瑞克大学和格丁根大学名誉教授，著有《美的自然——美的形式动力学》、《沿山脊前行——艺术的混沌和时间的秩序》等16部著作。

弗里德里希·克拉默，1923年生，1950年起任海德堡大学讲师，1959年任达姆施塔特大学有机化学教授，1962～1991年任马克斯·普朗克实验医学研究所所长，同时任不伦瑞克大学和格丁根大学名誉教授，著有《美的自然——美的形式动力学》、《沿山脊前行——艺术的混沌和时间的秩序》等16部著作。

In a rented convent in Santa Fe, a revolution has been brewing. The activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics such as Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow, and pony-tailed graduate students, mathematicians, and computer scientists down from Los Alamos. They've formed an iconoclastic think tank called the Santa Fe Institute, and their radica...(展开全部)

In a rented convent in Santa Fe, a revolution has been brewing. The activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics such as Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow, and pony-tailed graduate students, mathematicians, and computer scientists down from Los Alamos. They've formed an iconoclastic think tank called the Santa Fe Institute, and their radica...(展开全部)

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)

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)

In Search of Order brings to a conclusion Eric Voegelin's masterwork, Order and History. Voegelin conceived Order and History as "a philosophical inquiry concerning the principal types of order of human existence in society and history as well as the corresponding symbolic forms." In previous volumes, Voegelin discussed the imperial organizations of the ancient Near East and th...(展开全部)