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Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)

by Jeffrey Kluger

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A provocative and surprising exploration of the longest sustained relationships we have in life—those we have with our siblings.

Nobody affects us as deeply as our brothers and sisters. Our siblings are our collaborators and co-conspirators, our role models and cautionary tales. They teach us how to resolve conflicts and how not to, how to conduct friendships and when to walk away. Our siblings are the only people we know who truly qualify as partners for life.

In this perceptive and groundbreaking book, Jeffrey Kluger explores the complex world of siblings in equal parts science, psychology, sociology, and memoir. Based on cutting-edge research, he examines birth order, twins, genetic encoding of behavioral traits, emotional disorders and their effects on sibling relationships, and much more. With his signature insight and humor, Kluger takes science’s provocative new ideas about the subject and transforms them into smart, accessible insights that will help everyone understand the importance of siblings in our lives.

Synopsis:

"Time" magazine reporter Kluger adeptly translates cutting-edge theory into high-octane history that surrounds the notion of simplexity--that simple things can be more complicated than they seem, and complex things more simple--and how this affects everyone.

Synopsis:

"Sure to be a deserved hit among the ever-growing Freakonomics crowd."

--Booklist

"Kluger makes the modern world comprehensible."

--Publishers Weekly

"A fascinating journey."

--Library Journal

Sometimes a complex problem has an easy solution. And sometimes there's more to a simple thing than first appears.

In Simplexity, Time senior writer Jeffrey Kluger shows how a drinking straw can save thousands of lives, how a million cars can be on the streets but just a few hundred of them can lead to gridlock, how investors behave like atoms; how arithmetic governs abstract art and physics drives jazz, and why swatting a TV indeed makes it work better.

Kluger adeptly translates newly evolving science into a delightful theory of everything that will have you rethinking the rules of business, family, art--your world.

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About the Author

Jeffrey Kluger is a senior writer at Time. Coauthor of Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, which was the basis for the movie Apollo 13, he is also the author of Moon Hunters: NASA's Remarkable Expeditions to the Ends of the Solar System.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9781401309930

Author:

Kluger, Jeffrey

Publisher:

Hyperion Books

Author:

Edwards, Pamela Duncan

Author:

Cole, Henry

Subject:

General

Subject:

General Business & Economics

Subject:

People & Places - Europe

Subject:

Science Reference-General

Subject:

Siblings

Copyright:

2009

Edition Description:

TradePB

Publication Date:

20090631

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

from 12

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Y

Pages:

336

Dimensions:

11 x 8.5 in 6.56 oz

Age Level:

from 18

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Product details 336 pages Hyperion Books - 2010-01-04 English 9781401309930 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Ingram, "Time" magazine reporter Kluger adeptly translates cutting-edge theory into high-octane history that surrounds the notion of simplexity--that simple things can be more complicated than they seem, and complex things more simple--and how this affects everyone.

"Synopsis" by Harper Collins, "Sure to be a deserved hit among the ever-growing Freakonomics crowd."

--Booklist

"Kluger makes the modern world comprehensible."

--Publishers Weekly

"A fascinating journey."

--Library Journal

Sometimes a complex problem has an easy solution. And sometimes there's more to a simple thing than first appears.

In Simplexity, Time senior writer Jeffrey Kluger shows how a drinking straw can save thousands of lives, how a million cars can be on the streets but just a few hundred of them can lead to gridlock, how investors behave like atoms; how arithmetic governs abstract art and physics drives jazz, and why swatting a TV indeed makes it work better.

Kluger adeptly translates newly evolving science into a delightful theory of everything that will have you rethinking the rules of business, family, art--your world.