Scott Page: 8 books
It's Never Too Late
Getting Older, Wiser, and Worry Free in Our Golden Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Growing old doesn’t have to be so hard with this “important and valuable book for baby boomers and their children” (Florence Henderson).
We’re all going to die.
A jolting thought, yes, but an important truth. We all must come to terms with our mortality and move beyond the overwhelming...
The Diversity Bonus
How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think
What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The Diversity Bonus shows how and why. Scott...
Complex Adaptive Systems
An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2009
This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges...
The Difference
How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies (New Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone?...
Maximum Velocity
The Best of the Full-Throttle Space Tales
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The Full-Throttle Space Tales series collected action-packed, high octane, science fiction stories across the full potential of the genre. Here, the original editors have teamed up to pick the very best of Full-Throttle Space Tales, eighteen stories collected here for the first time.
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The Model Thinker
What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
How anyone can become a data ninja
From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, numbers aren't enough: we need to know...
by Scott E. Page
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...