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Complexity Books
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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,543 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 — 3,162 ratings — published 1992
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 41,126 ratings — published 1987
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 22,674 ratings — published 2008
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,438 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 — 5,555 ratings — published 2017
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,566 ratings — published 2001
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,308 ratings — published 2003
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
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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 50 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,237 ratings — published 2002
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 52,749 ratings — published 1979
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,031 ratings — published 2012
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 346 ratings — published 1996
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 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 — 2,195 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 — 122,365 ratings — published 2007
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 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)
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avg rating 3.99 — 180 ratings — published
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,798 ratings — published 1994
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,504 ratings — published 2015
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
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avg rating 4.12 — 207 ratings — published 2010
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,514 ratings — published 2004
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.30 — 785 ratings — published 2014
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,155 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 26 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,154 ratings — published 1997
Understanding Complexity
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avg rating 4.15 — 901 ratings — published 2009
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,534 ratings — published 1994
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 — 1,718 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 — 1,289 ratings — published 1977
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 643 ratings — published 1984
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,932 ratings — published 1996
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 — 71,715 ratings — published 2001
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,553 ratings — published 2023
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 2,361 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 — 1,051 ratings — published 1977
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,734 ratings — published 1989
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.86 — 318 ratings — published 1992
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 1,203 ratings — published 2003
Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 47 ratings — published
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
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avg rating 3.86 — 437 ratings — published 1969
Complexity and the Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 96 ratings — published 2014
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.51 — 498 ratings — published 2014
The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.92 — 449 ratings — published 1996
Harnessing Complexity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 147 ratings — published 2000
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 3.89 — 102 ratings — published 2012
“She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and secret, sometimes wicked and unkind parts, but often brave or wild or colorful parts, cunning or powerful or even marvelous, beautiful parts, just locked up away at the bottom of their hearts. They do this because they are afraid of the world and of being stared at, or relied upon to do feats of bravery or boldness. And all of those brave and wild and cunning and marvelous and beautiful parts they hid away and left in the dark to grow strange mushrooms—and yes, sometimes those wicked and unkind parts, too—end up in their shadow.”
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
“Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.”
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