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Niall Ferguson's The Square and the Tower brilliantly illuminates the great power struggle between networks and hierarchies that is raging around the world today. As a software engineer steeped in the theory and practice of networks, I was deeply impressed by this book's insights. Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it. --Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google [Ferguson's] typically bold rethinking of historical currents, painted on the broadest canvas, offers many stimulating insights on the tense interplay between order, oppression, freedom, and anarchy.-Publishers Weekly, starred review Ferguson has written a provocative and intellectually challenging work that should promote consideration and debate among academics and laypersons.-Booklist Renowned economic historian Ferguson draws on insights from network theory to examine disruptions across time. . . . Refreshingly evenhanded. . . . Ferguson offers a novel way of examining data . . . highly intriguing.-Kirkus In his sweeping, stimulating and enlightening The Square and the Tower, noted historian Niall Ferguson draws from a wide range of sources to trace the crucial role that different kinds of human networks have played throughout history... Ferguson's superb, thought-provoking book brings these events vividly to life and will help readers view history from a unique perspective.-BookPage
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The Square and the Tower, Niall Ferguson
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2018
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- Titolo
- The Square and the Tower
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Niall Ferguson
- Editore
- Penguin US
- Pubblicato
- 2018
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 563
- ISBN10
- 0735222916
- ISBN13
- 9780735222915
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Tema stórico, Storia, Commercio, Business & Management, Tecnologia & Ingegneria, Scienze politiche & Politica, Politica, Economia, Tecnologia, Regali per il nonno, Relazioni internazionali, Lotta per il potere, Massoni, Reti Sociali, Facebook, Interessi di potere, Illuminati
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2017
- Titolo originale
- The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
- Valutazione
- 3,6 su 5
- Descrizione
- Niall Ferguson's The Square and the Tower brilliantly illuminates the great power struggle between networks and hierarchies that is raging around the world today. As a software engineer steeped in the theory and practice of networks, I was deeply impressed by this book's insights. Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it. --Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google [Ferguson's] typically bold rethinking of historical currents, painted on the broadest canvas, offers many stimulating insights on the tense interplay between order, oppression, freedom, and anarchy.-Publishers Weekly, starred review Ferguson has written a provocative and intellectually challenging work that should promote consideration and debate among academics and laypersons.-Booklist Renowned economic historian Ferguson draws on insights from network theory to examine disruptions across time. . . . Refreshingly evenhanded. . . . Ferguson offers a novel way of examining data . . . highly intriguing.-Kirkus In his sweeping, stimulating and enlightening The Square and the Tower, noted historian Niall Ferguson draws from a wide range of sources to trace the crucial role that different kinds of human networks have played throughout history... Ferguson's superb, thought-provoking book brings these events vividly to life and will help readers view history from a unique perspective.-BookPage