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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,514 ratings — published 2009
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,148 ratings — published 1992
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,951 ratings — published 1987
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.19 — 22,195 ratings — published 2008
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,431 ratings — published 1995
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,510 ratings — published 2017
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,558 ratings — published 2001
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,298 ratings — published 2003
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.94 — 462 ratings — published 2007
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,752 ratings — published 2006
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,227 ratings — published 2002
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,481 ratings — published 1979
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,514 ratings — published 2012
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.03 — 339 ratings — published 1996
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.89 — 389 ratings — published 1995
A New Kind of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,190 ratings — published 2002
ORIGINS OF ORDER: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.18 — 280 ratings — published 1993
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,658 ratings — published 2007
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.50 — 472 ratings — published 2007
Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.99 — 180 ratings — published
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
by (shelved 31 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.12 — 207 ratings — published 2010
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,796 ratings — published 1994
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,500 ratings — published 2015
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,497 ratings — published 2004
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.30 — 780 ratings — published 2014
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,090 ratings — published 2011
Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.99 — 269 ratings — published 1998
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
by (shelved 27 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,115 ratings — published 1997
Understanding Complexity
by (shelved 24 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.15 — 899 ratings — published 2009
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,531 ratings — published 1994
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,926 ratings — published 1996
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,712 ratings — published 1992
A Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.71 — 200 ratings — published 2016
The Fractal Geometry of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,287 ratings — published 1977
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.05 — 639 ratings — published 1984
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 19 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.08 — 71,250 ratings — published 2001
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.85 — 317 ratings — published 1992
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,337 ratings — published 1984
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,037 ratings — published 1977
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,728 ratings — published 1989
Harnessing Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.73 — 148 ratings — published 2000
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,513 ratings — published 2023
Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.39 — 46 ratings — published
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.86 — 434 ratings — published 1969
Complexity and the Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.15 — 93 ratings — published 2014
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.51 — 494 ratings — published 2014
The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.93 — 442 ratings — published 1996
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,186 ratings — published 2003
Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.91 — 245 ratings — published 2009
Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.90 — 101 ratings — published 2012
“Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if one takes time to understand her, there is something beautiful to find, something simple to be loved. But she goes unloved, for being misunderstood.”
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