Albert-László Barabási: Linked
Linked: The New Science of Networks, from the front flap: “[This book] reveals how Google came to be the Internet’s most popular search engine, and how Vernon Jordan’s social network affects the American economy as a whole. We find out what it would take to bring down a terrorist organization like Al Qaeda, and why an obscure finding of Einstein’s could change the way we look at the networks in our own lives.”