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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,475 ratings — published 2009
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,624 ratings — published 1987
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,539 ratings — published 2008
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,282 ratings — published 2003
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,448 ratings — published 2017
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,551 ratings — published 2001
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.30 — 769 ratings — published 2014
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 461 ratings — published 2007
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,121 ratings — published 1992
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,216 ratings — published 2002
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.89 — 388 ratings — published 1995
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.09 — 56,864 ratings — published 2012
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,096 ratings — published 1979
A New Kind of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,181 ratings — published 2002
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 333 ratings — published 1996
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.12 — 207 ratings — published 2010
The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.37 — 268 ratings — published 1998
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.87 — 431 ratings — published 1969
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,313 ratings — published 1984
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,519 ratings — published 1994
The Sciences of the Artificial (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.30 — 652 ratings — published 1969
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,746 ratings — published 2006
Business Dynamics (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.38 — 310 ratings — published 1999
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,484 ratings — published 2004
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.49 — 466 ratings — published 2007
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,429 ratings — published 1995
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 120,599 ratings — published 2007
Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.00 — 268 ratings — published 1998
Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.99 — 751 ratings — published 1948
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,917 ratings — published 1996
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,743 ratings — published
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,470 ratings — published 1988
Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.38 — 47 ratings — published
Complexity and the Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.15 — 93 ratings — published 2014
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.51 — 488 ratings — published 2014
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.08 — 70,591 ratings — published 2001
Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.90 — 101 ratings — published 2012
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.17 — 576,515 ratings — published 2011
Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.89 — 71 ratings — published 1992
The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 835 ratings — published 2009
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.01 — 849,420 ratings — published 2000
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,896 ratings — published 1990
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,707 ratings — published 1992
Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.97 — 62 ratings — published
Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.00 — 179 ratings — published
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.73 — 7,451 ratings — published 1986
The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.92 — 937 ratings — published 2018
The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 175 ratings — published 2010
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,493 ratings — published 2018
Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.23 — 231 ratings — published 2007
“Had he stopped with the Butterfly Effect, an image of predictability giving way to pure randomness, then Lorenz would have produced no more than a piece of very bad news. But Lorenz saw more than randomness embedded in his weather model. He saw a fine geometrical structure, order masquerading as randomness.”
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“The Butterfly Effect was no accident; it was necessary.”
― Chaos: Making a New Science
― Chaos: Making a New Science
