Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades, Paperback/Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

The bestselling author of Linked returns with a ground breaking new theory that will enthrall fans of The Tipping Point Can we scientifically predict our future? It's a mystery that has nagged scientists for perhaps thousand of years. Now Albert-Laszlo Barabasi-the award-winning author of the sleeper hit Linked - explains how the digital age has yielded a massive, previously unavailable data set that proves the daily pattern of human activity isn't random, it's ``bursty.`` We work and fight and play in short flourishes of activity followed by next to nothing. Compellingly illustrated with the account of a bloody medieval crusade in sixteenth-century Transylvania and the modern tale of a contemporary artist hunted by the FBI, Bursts reveals that we are far more predictable than we like to think.