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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 — 5,265 ratings — published 2002
Computer Networks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,414 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 — 4,127 ratings — published 2008
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,270 ratings — published 2000
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 1,203 ratings — published 2003
Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 529 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 — 3,587 ratings — published 2001
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,702 ratings — published 2006
Network Science (ebook)
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avg rating 4.38 — 191 ratings — published 2016
Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.30 — 1,098 ratings — published 2010
TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,316 ratings — published 1993
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 — 1,433 ratings — published 2014
Analyzing Social Networks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 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 4.01 — 160 ratings — published 1994
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 3,337 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 — 4,395 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 — 435 ratings — published 2007
Social and Economic Networks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 134 ratings — published 2008
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 863,869 ratings — published 2000
The Structure and Dynamics of Networks (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
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avg rating 4.15 — 62 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 — 52,097 ratings — published 2024
Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 222 ratings — published
High Performance Browser Networking (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 861 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 — 24,826 ratings — published 2004
Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 436 ratings — published 2007
Networks: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 235 ratings — published 2012
Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol.1: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 339 ratings — published 1988
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 12,787 ratings — published 2005
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 7,142 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 — 5,679 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 3.68 — 1,510 ratings — published 2016
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,178 ratings — published 2005
The Practice of System and Network Administration (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 599 ratings — published 2001
UNIX Network Programming: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI; Volume 1 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 615 ratings — published 1990
Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 857 ratings — published
Networking All-in-One For Dummies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 387 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 — 216 ratings — published
How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions (Princeton Analytical Sociology Series)
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avg rating 4.07 — 169 ratings — published
The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 203 ratings — published 1991
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 59,159 ratings — published 2012
“We are striving to engineer the internet of all things in hope to make us healthy, happy and powerful. Yet once the internet of all things is up and running, we might be reduced from engineers to chips then to data and eventually, we might dissolve within the data torrent like a clamp of earth within a gushing river. Dataism, thereby, threatens to do to Homo sapiens what Homo sapiens has done to all other animals. In the course of history, humans have created a global network and evaluated everything according to its function within the network. For thousands of years this boosted human pride and prejudices.
Since humans fulfilled the most important function in the network, it was easy for us to take credit for the network’s achievements and to see ourselves as the apex of creation. The lives and experiences of all other animals were undervalued because they fulfilled far less important functions. And whenever an animal ceased to fulfil any function at all it went extinct. However, once humans loose their functional importance to the network, we’ll discover that we are not the apex of creation after all. The yardsticks that we ourselves have enshrined will condemn us to join the mammoths and the Chinese river dolphins in oblivion. Looking back, humanity will turn out to be just a ripple within the cosmic data flow.”
― Homo Deus
Since humans fulfilled the most important function in the network, it was easy for us to take credit for the network’s achievements and to see ourselves as the apex of creation. The lives and experiences of all other animals were undervalued because they fulfilled far less important functions. And whenever an animal ceased to fulfil any function at all it went extinct. However, once humans loose their functional importance to the network, we’ll discover that we are not the apex of creation after all. The yardsticks that we ourselves have enshrined will condemn us to join the mammoths and the Chinese river dolphins in oblivion. Looking back, humanity will turn out to be just a ripple within the cosmic data flow.”
― Homo Deus
“Ecosystems are complex networks. They can be remarkably resilient under stress, but when certain key nodes begin to fail, knock-on effects reverberate through the web of life. This is how mass extinction events unfolded in the past. It’s not the external shock that does it – the meteor or the volcano: it’s the cascade of internal failures that follows. It can be difficult to predict how this kind of thing plays out. Things like tipping points and feedback loops make everything much riskier than it otherwise might be. This is what makes climate breakdown so concerning.”
― Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
― Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
