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Critical Mass How One Thing Leads to Another : Being an Enquiry Into the Interplay of Chance and Necessity in the Way That Human Culture, Customs, Institutions, Cooperation and Conflict Arise

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Philip Ball explores the age-old question: are there any 'laws of nature' that guide human affairs? Is there anything inevitable about the ways humans behave and organize themselves? Have we complete freedom in creating our societies or are we trapped by 'human nature'?

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ISBN: 9780434011353
Publisher: Heinemann
Imprint: Heinemann
Pub date:
DEWEY: 501
DEWEY edition: 22
Number of pages: 644
Weight: 982g
Height: 242mm
Width: 168mm
Spine width: 52mm

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