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Critical Mass

How One Thing Leads to Another

By Philip Ball

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| Paperback | 9780099457862

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Are there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His approach was based notContinue

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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball 644pp, Heinemann, £25 "The great advantage of the mathematical sciences above the moral," wrote David Hume in 1748, "consists in this, that the ideas of the former are always clear and dete ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another

Review-a-Day Saturday, May 21st, 2005 Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball A review by Doug Brown Once upon a time, people used to believe if you studied the components of a system, you could explain everything about it. If yo ... (read full critics)

powells published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010