Complexity


Complexity: A Guided Tour
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Chaos: Making a New Science
Thinking In Systems: A Primer
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
The Complex World by David C. KrakauerThe Complex Alternative by David C. KrakauerHistory, Big History, & Metahistory by David C. KrakauerFoundational Papers in Complexity Science by David C. KrakauerFoundational Papers in Complexity Science by David C. Krakauer
Santa Fe Institute Press
7 books — 1 voter
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCollapse by Jared Diamond
Big History
268 books — 108 voters

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann BrasharesTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Best Books With Round Characters
39 books — 10 voters
Dragon Scales and Fireflies by Russell H. Ragsdale
Book of Aliases
1 book — 1 voter

Complexity by M. Mitchell WaldropOmarm de Chaos by Jan RotmansOrder Out of Chaos by Ilya PrigogineComplexiteit en contingentie by Tannelie BlomComplexity by John H. Holland
Complex Adaptive Systems
12 books — 1 voter
Our Mathematical Universe by Max TegmarkLife Revisited by Laurent  GrenierEvery Thing Must Go by James LadymanWhat Is Real? by Adam  BeckerHuman Compatible by Stuart Russell
Mindscape Podcast Books
103 books — 27 voters

Ian Stewart
If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't. ...more
Ian Stewart, The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World

Criss Jami
Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.
Criss Jami, Killosophy

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