Maxwell's Demon and the Golden Apple: Global Discord in the New Millennium
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Navigating the Chaos of Contemporary World Politics: Network versus No-work -- 1 Understanding the Language of Energy: Why Entropy Does Not Herald Doomsday -- 2 Entropy as Metaphor: Pattern Recognition, Time's Arrow, and the Big Chill -- 3 The Multidimensions of Disorder: Thermodynamics and World Politics -- 4 The Role of Emerging Powers in the Age of Entropy -- or, What Happens When the Sheriff Leaves Town and Anonymous Moves In -- 5 How Power Diffusion Works to a State's Advantage: This Is Not Your Great-Grandfather's Multipolar World -- 6 Rising Entropy at the Macro Level: The World Is Not Flat in Purgatory -- 7 Rising Entropy at the Micro Level: Information Overload and the Advent of Truthiness -- 8 Maxwell's Demon and Angry Birds: Big Data to the Rescue? -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.