Complex Systems


Complexity: A Guided Tour
Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Chaos: Making a New Science
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
Thinking In Systems by Donella H. MeadowsThe Systems View of Life by Fritjof CapraSystems Thinking For Social Change by David Peter StrohThe Fifth Discipline by Peter M. SengeThe Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows
Systems Thinking
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Roger Spitz
With complex, systemic challenges, there are no individual winners. Collectively addressing these means we all win; failure means we all lose.
Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

James Gleick
Implicitly, the mission of many twentieth-century scientists — biologists, neurologists, economists — has been to break their universes down into the simplest atoms that will obey scientific rules.
James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

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