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"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...
About the Author
Jeffrey Kluger joined TIME Magazine in 1996, mainly writing science stories, and was named a senior writer in 1998. With astronaut Jim Lovell, he wroteLost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, on which the 1995 movie Apollo 13 movie was based. He's written several other books, most recently Splendid Solution, which is about Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine. Mr. Kluger and two other colleagues won...
From Publishers Weekly
Frustrated by the traffic on narrow bridges? Stunned by the number of buttons on a remote control? Saddened by the lack of basic medical care in the developing world? Kluger (Splendid Solutions) makes the modern world comprehensible, analyzing social and technological systems to reveal that things that seem complicated can be preposterously simple; things that seem simple can be dizzyingly complex. He compares cells to cities to...
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- PublisherHyperion
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1401309933
- ISBN 13 9781401309930
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages336
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