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Complex Systems Books
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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,628 ratings — published 2009
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,954 ratings — published 2008
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,836 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 — 5,683 ratings — published 2017
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,338 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 — 3,588 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 — 5,265 ratings — published 2002
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.29 — 807 ratings — published 2014
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,195 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 — 462 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 — 3,205 ratings — published 1992
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.90 — 390 ratings — published 1995
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.02 — 350 ratings — published 1996
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 3.63 — 2,205 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
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,555 ratings — published 1979
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.88 — 444 ratings — published 1969
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,408 ratings — published 1984
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,547 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 — 1,549 ratings — published 1994
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,009 ratings — published 2007
The Sciences of the Artificial (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.29 — 683 ratings — published 1969
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,946 ratings — published 1996
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,770 ratings — published 2006
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 — 966 ratings — published 2018
Business Dynamics (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.38 — 317 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 — 1,449 ratings — published 1995
Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.99 — 271 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 — 787 ratings — published 1948
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,858 ratings — published 1972
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,545 ratings — published 1988
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 — 6,755 ratings — published 2018
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.51 — 508 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 — 72,781 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 3.51 — 476 ratings — published 2007
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
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,474 ratings — published 2003
The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 869 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 — 864,069 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 — 36,195 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 — 1,731 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 — 65 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 — 185 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 — 7,783 ratings — published 1986
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities (Mit Press)
by (shelved 4 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,183 ratings — published 2019
The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.09 — 179 ratings — published 2010
Complexity and the Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.15 — 99 ratings — published 2014
“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.”
― Chaos: Making a New Science
― Chaos: Making a New Science
“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
