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Books on understanding complexity theory.
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The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics
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Complexity: A Guided Tour
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Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life
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The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies (The William G. Bowen Series)
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3.81 avg rating — 316 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality
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At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
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The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration
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4.01 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Micromotives and Macrobehavior
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The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
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Steven H. Strogatz (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 3,301 ratings
score: 200,
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Linked: The New Science Of Networks
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Albert-László Barabási (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 5,238 ratings
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
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Steven Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 3,564 ratings
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Diversity and Complexity
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4.12 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 57,876 ratings
score: 193,
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An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms
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Emergence: From Chaos To Order
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Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling
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4.05 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Structure and Dynamics of Networks
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Mark Newman (Editor)
4.16 avg rating — 63 ratings
score: 186,
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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
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3.90 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
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Chris Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 30,056 ratings
score: 183,
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Harnessing Complexity
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3.73 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Social and Economic Networks
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4.28 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
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Weak Links: The Universal Key to the Stability of Networks and Complex Systems
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4.45 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
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Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
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3.98 avg rating — 1,510 ratings
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Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory
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3.50 avg rating — 472 ratings
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Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds
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3.85 avg rating — 183 ratings
score: 98,
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Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence
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3.89 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The 90 Day Plan to Marketing Your Book: A Powerful Day to Day Proven Strategy to Implement, Maximize Exposure and Explode Sales of Your Book
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4.78 avg rating — 67 ratings
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A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life
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3.77 avg rating — 322 ratings
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
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4.17 avg rating — 9,959 ratings
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Investigations
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4.07 avg rating — 151 ratings
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ORIGINS OF ORDER: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
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4.18 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Humanity in a Creative Universe
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Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion
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3.65 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up
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4.15 avg rating — 139 ratings
score: 86,
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
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4.05 avg rating — 3,160 ratings
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Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
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3.89 avg rating — 389 ratings
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The Robust Federation: Principles of Design (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
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3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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