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  title info:
    title: Weak Links
    sub title: The Universal Key to the Stability of Networks and Complex Systems
  name:
    name part: Csermely, Peter.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 392 p. online resource.
  abstract: How can our societies be stabilized in a crisis? Why can we enjoy and understand Shakespeare? Why are fruitflies uniform? How do omnivorous eating habits aid our survival? What makes the Mona Lisa’s smile beautiful? How do women keep our social structures intact? – Could there possibly be a single answer to all these questions? This book shows that the statement: "weak links stabilize complex systems" provides the key to understanding each of these intriguing puzzles, and many others too. The author (recipient of several distinguished science communication prizes) uses weak (low affinity, low probability) interactions as a thread to introduce a vast variety of networks from proteins to economics and ecosystems. Many people, from Nobel Laureates to high-school students have helped to make the book understandable to all interested readers. This unique book and the ideas it develops will have a significant impact on many, seemingly diverse, fields of study. A very personal, engaging, and unique book that will appeal to readers and get them thinking Steve Strogatz An adventurous, entertainingly eclectic and rich work both for experts and laymen László-Albert Barabási This masterpiece should serve as an example of how science can be discussed György Buzsáki Outstanding - I wish more books were written this way Daniel J. Bilar.
  table of contents: A Principle is Born: The Granovetter Study -- Why Do We Like Networks? -- Network Stability -- Weak Links as Stabilizers of Complex Systems -- Atoms, Molecules and Macromolecules -- Weak Links and Cellular Stability -- Weak Links and the Stability of Organisms -- Social Nets -- Networks of Human Culture -- The Global Web -- The Ecoweb -- Conclusions and Perspectives.
  note: by Peter Csermely.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Proteomics
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics
  subject:
    topic: Biological physics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Nature
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Geoecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental geology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Nature and Environment
  subject:
    topic: Proteomics
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics and Biological Physics
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Geoecology/Natural Processes
  classification: QC174.7-175.36
  classification: 621
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: The Frontiers Collection
  identifier: 9783540311577
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31157-7
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204180512.0
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