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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,587 ratings — published 2009
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,331 ratings — published 2008
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,476 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 17 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,640 ratings — published 2017
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,321 ratings — published 2003
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,574 ratings — published 2001
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,254 ratings — published 2002
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.93 — 461 ratings — published 2007
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.29 — 799 ratings — published 2014
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,608 ratings — published 2012
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,180 ratings — published 1992
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.02 — 347 ratings — published 1996
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.90 — 389 ratings — published 1995
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,144 ratings — published 1979
The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.37 — 268 ratings — published 1998
A New Kind of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,200 ratings — published 2002
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.12 — 207 ratings — published 2010
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.87 — 439 ratings — published 1969
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,390 ratings — published 1984
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,760 ratings — published 2006
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,531 ratings — published 2004
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,539 ratings — published 1994
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,216 ratings — published 2007
The Sciences of the Artificial (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.30 — 675 ratings — published 1969
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,842 ratings — published 1972
Complexity and the Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.14 — 98 ratings — published 2014
Business Dynamics (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.38 — 315 ratings — published 1999
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 4.03 — 1,445 ratings — published 1995
Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.00 — 269 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 3.98 — 777 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 — 1,938 ratings — published 1996
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,524 ratings — published 1988
The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.92 — 957 ratings — published 2018
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 — 6,699 ratings — published 2018
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.51 — 503 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 — 72,220 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 — 474 ratings — published 2007
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.17 — 600,737 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
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,203 ratings — published 2003
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,465 ratings — published 2003
The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.95 — 862 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 — 861,010 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 — 36,102 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 — 1,726 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 4.00 — 64 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 4.01 — 182 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 3.72 — 7,708 ratings — published 1986
“Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules. [...] Analyzing the behavior of a nonlinear equation like the Navier-Stokes equation is like walking through a maze whose walls rearrange themselves with each step you take.”
― Chaos: Making a New Science
― Chaos: Making a New Science
“In science as in life, it is well known that a chain of events can have a point of crisis that could magnify small changes. But chaos meant that such points were everywhere. They were pervasive. In systems like the weather, sensitive dependence on initial conditions was an inescapable consequence of the way small scales intertwined with large.”
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