TY - BOOK AU - Barabasi,Albert-Laszlo TI - Bursts: the hidden pattern behind everything we do SN - 9780452297180 AV - HM 1011 B223b 2011 U1 - 303.4901 PY - 2011/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Plume, KW - Social psychology KW - Statistical methods KW - Psicología social KW - Métodos estadísticos KW - Human behavior KW - Comportamiento humano KW - Prediction (Psychology) KW - Predicciones KW - Psicología KW - Psychohistory N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-295) and index; The best bodyguard in the business -- A pope is elected in Rome -- The mystery of random motion -- Duel in Belgrade -- The future is not yet searchable -- Bloody prophecy -- Prediction or prophecy -- A crusade at last -- Violence, random and otherwise -- An unforeseen massacre -- Deadly quarrels and power laws -- The Nagylak Battle -- The origin of bursts -- Accidents don't happen to crucifixes -- The man who taught himself to swim by reading -- An investigation -- Trailing the albatross -- "Villain!" -- The patterns of human mobility -- Revolution now -- Predictably unpredictable -- A diversion in Transylvania -- The truth about LifeLinear -- Szekler against Szekler -- Feeling sick is not a priority -- The final battles -- The third ear -- Flesh and blood N2 - Outlines a theory of how to predict behavior, drawing on seven years of research while demonstrating the mathematical properties of seemingly random events, from the spread of epidemics to the history of wars ER -