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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,694 ratings — published 2009
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,018 ratings — published 2008
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,351 ratings — published 1987
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,798 ratings — published 2017
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,358 ratings — published 2003
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,609 ratings — published 2001
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,280 ratings — published 2002
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,223 ratings — published 1992
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.30 — 810 ratings — published 2014
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.10 — 60,022 ratings — published 2012
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 463 ratings — published 2007
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 353 ratings — published 1996
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,133 ratings — published 1979
The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.37 — 268 ratings — published 1998
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.90 — 391 ratings — published 1995
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.88 — 451 ratings — published 1969
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,557 ratings — published 1994
A New Kind of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,214 ratings — published 2002
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,443 ratings — published 1984
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,568 ratings — published 2004
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,463 ratings — published 1995
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.12 — 209 ratings — published 2010
The Sciences of the Artificial (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.28 — 696 ratings — published 1969
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,952 ratings — published 1996
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,395 ratings — published 2007
Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.00 — 272 ratings — published 1998
Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.99 — 797 ratings — published 1948
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,786 ratings — published 2006
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,587 ratings — published 1988
The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.92 — 980 ratings — published 2018
Business Dynamics (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.39 — 318 ratings — published 1999
The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 873 ratings — published 2009
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,890 ratings — published 1972
Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.39 — 46 ratings — published
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,840 ratings — published 2018
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.52 — 513 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 — 73,917 ratings — published 2001
Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.89 — 102 ratings — published 2012
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.50 — 480 ratings — published 2007
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.93 — 676 ratings — published 1975
The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.92 — 461 ratings — published 1996
The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,366 ratings — published 1984
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
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,210 ratings — published 2003
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,480 ratings — published 2003
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.01 — 869,472 ratings — published 2000
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,329 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 — 1,742 ratings — published 1992
ORIGINS OF ORDER: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.19 — 285 ratings — published 1993
Networks: An Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.23 — 206 ratings — published 2010
“In tight coupling, small ripples in quiet waters become tidal waves.”
― Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
― Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Maybe the existential risk is not machines taking over the world or reaching human-level intelligence, but rather the opposite where human beings think like idle machines - unable to connect the emerging dots of our complex, systemic world.”
― The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
― The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
