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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,239 ratings — published 2002
Computer Networks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,412 ratings — published 1981
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 4,111 ratings — published 2008
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,248 ratings — published 2000
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 1,202 ratings — published 2003
Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 521 ratings — published 2002
Networks: An Introduction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 207 ratings — published 2010
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 307 ratings — published 2010
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 3,566 ratings — published 2001
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,700 ratings — published 2006
Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.30 — 1,090 ratings — published 2010
TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,314 ratings — published 1993
Network Science (ebook)
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avg rating 4.38 — 185 ratings — published 2016
Understanding Social Networks: Theories, Concepts, and Findings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 169 ratings — published 2011
Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread— The Lessons from a New Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 1,424 ratings — published 2014
Analyzing Social Networks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 75 ratings — published 2013
TCP/IP Network Administration (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 326 ratings — published 1992
Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 158 ratings — published 1994
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 3,311 ratings — published 2003
The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 4,336 ratings — published 2017
Network Warrior: Everything you need to know that wasn't on the CCNA exam (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 433 ratings — published 2007
Social and Economic Networks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 132 ratings — published 2008
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 858,126 ratings — published 2000
The Structure and Dynamics of Networks (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
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avg rating 4.16 — 63 ratings — published 2006
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 47,648 ratings — published 2024
Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 209 ratings — published
High Performance Browser Networking (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 855 ratings — published 2013
Social Network Analysis for Startups: Finding connections on the social web (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 82 ratings — published 2011
The Wisdom of Crowds (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 24,769 ratings — published 2004
Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 431 ratings — published 2007
Networks: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 233 ratings — published 2012
Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol.1: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 337 ratings — published 1988
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 12,634 ratings — published 2005
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 7,143 ratings — published 2008
Essential System Administration (Nutshell Handbooks)
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avg rating 3.94 — 352 ratings — published 1991
Network Programmability and Automation: Skills for the Next-Generation Network Engineer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 71 ratings — published 2016
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 5,562 ratings — published 2017
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
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avg rating 4.12 — 207 ratings — published 2010
The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 1,506 ratings — published 2016
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,162 ratings — published 2005
UNIX Network Programming: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI; Volume 1 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 616 ratings — published 1990
Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 855 ratings — published
Networking All-in-One For Dummies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 384 ratings — published 1994
Driving Results Through Social Networks: How Top Organizations Leverage Networks for Performance and Growth (Jossey-Bass Leadership Series)
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avg rating 3.93 — 56 ratings — published 2008
A First Course in Network Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 18 ratings — published
Zero Trust Networks: Building Secure Systems in Untrusted Networks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 217 ratings — published
How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions (Princeton Analytical Sociology Series)
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avg rating 4.08 — 167 ratings — published
The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 201 ratings — published 1991
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 58,101 ratings — published 2012
The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 211 ratings — published 2005
“The reason [James Clerk] Maxwell's Demon cannot exist is that it does take resources to perform an act of discrimination. We imagine computation is free, but it never is. The very act of choosing which particle is cold or hot itself becomes an energy drain and a source of waste heat. The principle is also known as "no free lunch."
We do our best to implement Maxwell's Demon whenever we manipulate reality with our technologies, but we can never do so perfectly; we certainly can't get ahead of the game, which is known as entropy. All the air conditioners in a city emit heat that makes the city hotter overall. While you can implement what seems to be a Maxwell's Demon if you don't look too far or too closely, in the big picture you always lose more than you gain.
Every bit in a computer is a wannabe Maxwell's Demon, separating the state of "one" from the state of "zero" for a while, at a cost. A computer on a network can also act like a wannabe demon if it tries to sort data from networked people into one or the other side of some imaginary door, while pretending there is no cost or risk involved.”
― Who Owns the Future?
We do our best to implement Maxwell's Demon whenever we manipulate reality with our technologies, but we can never do so perfectly; we certainly can't get ahead of the game, which is known as entropy. All the air conditioners in a city emit heat that makes the city hotter overall. While you can implement what seems to be a Maxwell's Demon if you don't look too far or too closely, in the big picture you always lose more than you gain.
Every bit in a computer is a wannabe Maxwell's Demon, separating the state of "one" from the state of "zero" for a while, at a cost. A computer on a network can also act like a wannabe demon if it tries to sort data from networked people into one or the other side of some imaginary door, while pretending there is no cost or risk involved.”
― Who Owns the Future?
“Tags [distinctive agent features observable by other agents] almost always define the network by delimiting the critical interactions, the major connections. Tags acquire this role because the adaptive processes that modify cas [complex adaptive systems] select for tags that mediate useful interactions and against tags that cause malfunctions. That is, agents with useful tags spread, while agents with malfunctioning tags cease to exist.”
― Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
― Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
