Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life

Barabasi surveys a familiar world of crowds and populations, molecules and atoms, clusters and hubs from a vantage point that will be new to the average enquiring mind. Networks, he says, enable us to understand complexity and his arguments are carefully deployed for a lay audience, well marshalled and absorbing. Not all networks affect us directly but more do than we imagine: some are a blessing others are downright dangerous. Its a new view of the human condition and a reassuring one given how frequently we grumble about an environment in which chaos seems to reign supreme. This is a rational and elegant study of a branch of knowledge that disperses the haze over a vast and varied expanse of human behaviour and seeks to civilise our outlook. It will explain a lot, rouse your imagination and it's well written.

Like all of Barabasi’s books, Linked is a book about science that can be read as easily as a novel.While detailed and thoroughly documented with scientific evidence, it takes the reader on a pleasurable journey in the fascinating world of networks. Peppered with interesting anecdotes, it keeps you hooked until the end. Once finished, you wonder how you managed to live in the ignorance about networks for so long.Highly recommended for scientists and laypeople interested in physics.

It is a very accessible introduction to the topic.

The shipping to the NL cost 150 times more than the book itself, which was listed for 4 cents! Dispite it's symbolic price this is a decent book. Bit used, but completly acceptable. This was the first time that I ordered a book from the US and the shipping was suprisingly fast.

Clear explanations for the non-specialist, with well-chosen examples. I would recommend to anyone interested in understanding the basics of networks.

A nontechnical introduction to network theory, perhaps too much storytelling for my liking, but not a bad skim. It helps that Albert Barabási is a physicist having had published papers on modelling networks. Ultimately though, I preferred "Networks: A Very Short Introduction".

Great insight into the history of network topology.

I purchased this book after reading a piece that the author wrote for New Scientist magazine that I found really intriguing. The main reason why I gave the product 4 stars is that there really isn't anything much more then was in that actual article which was a minor disappointment. However, that was a great article and hence so is the book.Having read it has given me a new perspective on observing certain aspects of life. For example, I find myself looking around my groups of acquaintances trying to figure out who are the 'hubs'. It has also taught me a lot about the importance of getting in early to something in terms of being successful.It must be said as well though that this book is 8 years old now and in such an emerging area of research I can only assume that there has been a lot of advances and hence some of the material (especially that on the internet) is probably very outdated.With this in mind I have been inspired to find out more and am currently reading a more advanced book that was written a few years later-one that I wouldn't have gone near without the solid grounding that I gained from reading Linked.

Network science written in simple language, so even non technical person like me cab understand

While I thought the book would expand further on the concept of 'six degrees of separation" it sort of started with a thumbnail sketch and digressed into IT Connectivity and Quantum Mechanics and Physics. My initial thought was crap, this is going to difficult, boring and too complicated. I persevered however and read it cover to cover and have a rudimentary understanding of a whole new perspective of connectivity in our world. Physics and I were never on good terms but I am glad I didn't knee jerk react and dump it or send it back. If you have a business or scientific background you might enjoy it. In this case the 5 stars are for the author and not diminished by my educational background.

ben confezionato e come descritto in fase di acquisto

While I had high expectations for the content of this book, and at some points felt I was getting close to being rewarded for reading the book page by page, in the end it felt like I was left largely empty-handed. The concept explained was long and windy even if quite useful to be aware of - it will likely lead you to come to a different conclusion sometimes when analysing for example potential investment opportunities..I would not recommend reading this book, rather try to find a summary which saves you considerable amount of time for the same benefit. The concept could have been explained in 10 pages max.

Mi asesor de tesis me lo recomendo para comenzar el estudio de redes complejas. Muy bueno para introduccion a esta área