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Complexity Books
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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,486 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 — 3,127 ratings — published 1992
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 40,700 ratings — published 1987
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 21,693 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 — 1,430 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 75 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,469 ratings — published 2017
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,553 ratings — published 2001
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,284 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 — 461 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 — 1,746 ratings — published 2006
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,217 ratings — published 2002
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,171 ratings — published 1979
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,027 ratings — published 2012
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.89 — 389 ratings — published 1995
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.03 — 335 ratings — published 1996
A New Kind of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,183 ratings — published 2002
ORIGINS OF ORDER: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.19 — 279 ratings — published 1993
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.96 — 120,865 ratings — published 2007
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.49 — 467 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 — 1,789 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 — 1,488 ratings — published 2015
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,488 ratings — published 2004
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.30 — 772 ratings — published 2014
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,012 ratings — published 2011
Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.00 — 268 ratings — published 1998
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
by (shelved 27 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,070 ratings — published 1997
Understanding Complexity
by (shelved 25 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.15 — 894 ratings — published 2009
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,708 ratings — published 1992
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,525 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 — 1,920 ratings — published 1996
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 — 1,283 ratings — published 1977
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.05 — 634 ratings — published 1984
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 20 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.08 — 70,756 ratings — published 2001
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.85 — 315 ratings — published 1992
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,314 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 — 1,023 ratings — published 1977
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,720 ratings — published 1989
Harnessing Complexity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 148 ratings — published 2000
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,184 ratings — published 2003
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,457 ratings — published 2023
Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 46 ratings — published
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.87 — 432 ratings — published 1969
Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 245 ratings — published 2009
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 — 489 ratings — published 2014
The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.37 — 268 ratings — published 1998
The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.92 — 438 ratings — published 1996
“Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.”
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“It would be better to dump the whole stinking system and take the consequences”
― Industrial Society and Its Future
― Industrial Society and Its Future
