The Ingenuity Gap
by Thomas Homer-Dixon
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- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0099286289
- ISBN 13
- 9780099286288
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About This Item
Vintage. Fair. 198mm / 129mm. Paperback. 2001. 480 pages. Cover worn. Text tanned<br>Is our world becoming too c omplex and too fast-paced to manage? The challenges facing human societies - from international financial crises and global climat e change to pandemics of tuberculosis and AIDS - converge, intert wine, and often remain largely beyond our ken. Most of us suspect ... .
Synopsis
The Ingenuity Gap is a non-fiction book by Canadian academic Thomas Homer-Dixon. It was written over the course of eight years from 1992 to 2000 when it was published by Knopf. The book argues that the nature of problems faced by our society are becoming more complex and that our ability to implement solutions is not keeping pace. Homer-Dixon focuses upon complexities, unexpected non-linear results, and emergent properties.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Ingenuity Gap
- Author
- Thomas Homer-Dixon
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0099286289
- ISBN 13
- 9780099286288
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Date Published
- 2001
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....