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Scale

The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies

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Von: Geoffrey West
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Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses.

Scale addresses big, urgent questions about global sustainability, population explosion, urbanization, ageing, cancer, human life spans and the increasing pace of life but also encourages us to question the world around us.

Why can we live for 120 years but not for a thousand? Why does the pace of life continually increase? Why do mice live for just two or three years and elephants for up to 75? Why do companies behave like mice, and are they all destined to die? Do cities, companies and human beings have natural, predetermined life spans? Are we just a fascinating experiment in natural selection that is ultimately doomed to fail? And what is the origin of the magic number four that seems to determine much of physiology and life history from birth to death?

©2017 Geoffrey West (P)2017 Penguin Random House Geschäftsentwicklung & Unternehmertum Großstadt Soziologie Wissenschaft

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"An absolutely riveting read...groundbreaking." (Marcus du Sautoy)
"This book will expand your thinking from three dimensions to four." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
" Scale is a firework display of popular science." (Niall Ferguson)
"This is an important and original book, of immense scope." (Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal)
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Went into this one with no previous knowledge. And like the impression I got from every chapter, it really scaled up my game. Can recommend

Interesting impulse to change one's perspectives

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The content of this book is fantastic. It talks about different environments and concepts to illustrate the idea that growing up and scale is not linear. But the narrator is so boring that it's hard to pay attention and not fall a sleep. What a bad choice of narrator

Fantastic content, boring narrator

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