The Resource Scale : the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies, and companies, Geoffrey West
Scale : the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies, and companies, Geoffrey West
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The item Scale : the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies, and companies, Geoffrey West represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Summary
- "Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks... Fascinated by issues of aging and mortality, West applied the rigor of a physicist to the biological question of why we live as long as we do and no longer. The result was astonishing, and changed science, creating a new understanding of energy use and metabolism: West found that despite the riotous diversity in the sizes of mammals, they are all, to a large degree, scaled versions of each other... West's work has been gaming changing for biologists, but then he made the even bolder move of exploring his work's applicability...and applied...[it] to the business and social world."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 479 pages
- Contents
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- The big picture
- The measure of all things: an introduction to scaling
- The simplicity, unity, and complexity of life
- The fourth dimension of life: growth, aging, and death
- From the Anthropocene to the Urbanocene: a planet dominated by cities
- Prelude to a science of cities
- Toward a science of cities
- Consequences and predictions: from mobility and the pace of life to social connectivity, diversity, metabolism, and growth
- Toward a science of companies
- The vision of a grand unified theory of sustainability
- Isbn
- 9781594205583
- Label
- Scale : the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies, and companies
- Title
- Scale
- Title remainder
- the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies, and companies
- Statement of responsibility
- Geoffrey West
- Subject
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- Urban ecology (Sociology)
- trueAging
- trueBusiness -- Growth
- trueCities and towns -- Growth
- trueComplexity (Philosophy)
- trueEvolution
- Evolution (Biology)
- Evolution -- Molecular aspects
- trueLongevity
- trueScaling (Social sciences)
- trueScience -- Philosophy
- trueSize
- Social sciences -- Methodology
- trueSociology
- trueSustainable development
- trueSystems theory
- trueUrban ecology
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks... Fascinated by issues of aging and mortality, West applied the rigor of a physicist to the biological question of why we live as long as we do and no longer. The result was astonishing, and changed science, creating a new understanding of energy use and metabolism: West found that despite the riotous diversity in the sizes of mammals, they are all, to a large degree, scaled versions of each other... West's work has been gaming changing for biologists, but then he made the even bolder move of exploring his work's applicability...and applied...[it] to the business and social world."--
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- 10563781
- Cataloging source
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- West, Geoffrey B
- Dewey number
- 303.44
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- H61.27
- LC item number
- .W47 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Scaling (Social sciences)
- Science
- Evolution (Biology)
- Evolution
- Urban ecology (Sociology)
- Social sciences
- Sustainable development
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- the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life, in organisms, cities, economies, and companies
- Label
- Scale : the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies, and companies, Geoffrey West
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-464) and index
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- Contents
- The big picture -- The measure of all things: an introduction to scaling -- The simplicity, unity, and complexity of life -- The fourth dimension of life: growth, aging, and death -- From the Anthropocene to the Urbanocene: a planet dominated by cities -- Prelude to a science of cities -- Toward a science of cities -- Consequences and predictions: from mobility and the pace of life to social connectivity, diversity, metabolism, and growth -- Toward a science of companies -- The vision of a grand unified theory of sustainability
- Control code
- 1795092
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 479 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594205583
- Lccn
- 2016056756
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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- (Sirsi) i9781594205583
- (OCoLC)973480868
- Label
- Scale : the universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life in organisms, cities, economies, and companies, Geoffrey West
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-464) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The big picture -- The measure of all things: an introduction to scaling -- The simplicity, unity, and complexity of life -- The fourth dimension of life: growth, aging, and death -- From the Anthropocene to the Urbanocene: a planet dominated by cities -- Prelude to a science of cities -- Toward a science of cities -- Consequences and predictions: from mobility and the pace of life to social connectivity, diversity, metabolism, and growth -- Toward a science of companies -- The vision of a grand unified theory of sustainability
- Control code
- 1795092
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 479 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594205583
- Lccn
- 2016056756
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781594205583
- (OCoLC)973480868
Subject
- Urban ecology (Sociology)
- trueAging
- trueBusiness -- Growth
- trueCities and towns -- Growth
- trueComplexity (Philosophy)
- trueEvolution
- Evolution (Biology)
- Evolution -- Molecular aspects
- trueLongevity
- trueScaling (Social sciences)
- trueScience -- Philosophy
- trueSize
- Social sciences -- Methodology
- trueSociology
- trueSustainable development
- trueSystems theory
- trueUrban ecology
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