Systems Theory


Thinking In Systems: A Primer
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
Introduction to Systems Theory
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)
Social Systems
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
Markov Decision Processes by Martin L. PutermanDynamic Probabilistic Systems, Volume I by Ronald A. HowardDynamic Probabilistic Systems, Volume II by Ronald A. HowardReinforcement Learning by Richard S. SuttonOptimal Control Theory by Donald E. Kirk
Control and Systems Theory (MMath)
24 books — 7 voters
The Antidotes by Patty MechaelTree of Life by Rochelle StraussBorn With a Bang by Jennifer MorganChildren Just Like Me by Catherine SaundersEnergy Island by Allan Drummond
Systems Thinking for Children
26 books — 7 voters

The Science of Logic by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelRécoltes et semailles by Alexandre GrothendieckPleromatica, or Elsinore's Trance by Gabriel CatrenThe Blind Spot by Jean-Yves GirardIdeas by Edmund Husserl
Speculative World-System
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
This interconnection or accommodation of all created things to each other, and each to all the others, brings it about that each simple substance has relations that express all the others, and consequently, that each simple substance is a perpetual, living mirror of the universe.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students

Olga Tokarczuk
One must keep one's eyes and ears open, one must know how to match up the facts, see similarity where others see total difference, remember that certain events occur at various levels or, to put it another way, many incidents are aspects of the same, single occurrence. And that the world is a great big net, it is a whole, where no single thing exists separately; every scrap of the world, every last tiny piece, is bound up with the rest by a complex Cosmos of correspondences, hard for the ordinar ...more
Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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Ecosphere Studies Ecosphere studies reading group.
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