Written by Simon Garnier on August 10, 2011 – 9:40 am
Next year, Springer will publish the last book of Dirk Helbing, "Social self-organization", on large-scale social behaviors in human beings. Hereafter is the presentation text of the book. More information about the book can be found here.
What are the principles that keep our society together? This question is even more difficult to answer than the [...]
Written by Simon Garnier on October 25, 2010 – 3:48 pm
David Sumpter's book, "Collective Animal Behavior" published by Princeton University Press, is now available on Amazon. Some sample chapters can be found on this website dedicated to the book: http://www.collective-behavior.com/Site/Home.html.
Written by Simon Garnier on March 3, 2010 – 3:03 pm
In their March issue, Nature and Scientific American Mind review a recently published book, "The Perfect Swarm: The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life", written by Len Fisher and edited by Basic Books. Both reviews are globally good and I already ordered a copy of the book to check their reliability.
Hereafter is the summary of [...]