Calculating Catastrophe has been written to explain, to a general readership, the underlying philosophical ideas and scientific principles that govern catastrophic events, both natural and man-made. Knowledge of the broad range of catastrophes deepens understanding of individual…
1. Natural hazards. 1.1. Causation and association. 1.2. Extra-terrestrial hazards. 1.3. Meteorological hazards. 1.4. Geological hazards. 1.5. Geomorphic hazards. 1.6. Hydrological hazards -- 2. Societal hazards. 2.1. Political violence. 2.2. Infectious disease pandemics. 2.3. I…
The French mathematician René Thom (Fields medal 1958) died in 2002. In this volume his contributions to biology, semiotics and linguistics are discussed by a group of scholars who have continued his work and have shaped the new paradigm of dynamic semiotics and linguistics. Tho…
Explains catastrophe theory, which uses geometric shapes to transform abstract concepts into concrete visual pictures, and cites numerous examples to show its usefulness in dealing with problems in economics, psychology, biology, politics, and history.
The revolutionary new way of understanding how things change. The book serves to explain a fraction of the phenomena to which Thom has suggested its application, the theory's reach will be extraordinary, the development of the ego, the origin of life, evolution, death, and langu…
The revolutionary new way of understanding how things change. The book serves to explain a fraction of the phenomena to which Thom has suggested its application, the theory's reach will be extraordinary, the development of the ego, the origin of life, evolution, death, and langu…
New edition of this classic work which asks: How do objects that areof little worth or worth nothing become valuable?
New edition of this classic work which asks: How do objects that are of little worth or worth nothing become valuable?
New edition of this classic work which asks: How do objects that are of little worth or worth nothing become valuable?
How do objects that are worth little to nothing become valuable? Who is behind the creation of value, and which types of people find value and comfort in transient, durable, and rubbish objects? When his highly influential Rubbish Theory, first published in 1979, Michael Thompso…
