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Complexity Books
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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,630 ratings — published 2009
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,210 ratings — published 1992
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 41,885 ratings — published 1987
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 24,070 ratings — published 2008
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,450 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 — 5,695 ratings — published 2017
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,591 ratings — published 2001
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,339 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)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,772 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 — 5,271 ratings — published 2002
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 53,640 ratings — published 1979
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,295 ratings — published 2012
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.90 — 390 ratings — published 1995
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.02 — 350 ratings — published 1996
A New Kind of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,207 ratings — published 2002
ORIGINS OF ORDER: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.19 — 283 ratings — published 1993
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,190 ratings — published 2007
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.51 — 477 ratings — published 2007
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,814 ratings — published 1994
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 4.00 — 185 ratings — published
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
by (shelved 30 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.12 — 207 ratings — published 2010
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,516 ratings — published 2015
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,549 ratings — published 2004
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.29 — 807 ratings — published 2014
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,390 ratings — published 2011
Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.99 — 271 ratings — published 1998
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
by (shelved 25 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,227 ratings — published 1997
Understanding Complexity
by (shelved 23 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.15 — 912 ratings — published 2009
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,550 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 4.22 — 1,733 ratings — published 1992
The Fractal Geometry of Nature (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,297 ratings — published 1977
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,946 ratings — published 1996
A Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.68 — 204 ratings — published 2016
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.06 — 659 ratings — published 1984
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,413 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 — 72,906 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 — 1,644 ratings — published 2023
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,077 ratings — published 1977
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.85 — 321 ratings — published 1992
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)
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avg rating 3.88 — 445 ratings — published 1969
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.51 — 509 ratings — published 2014
Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 247 ratings — published 2009
Complexity and the Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 100 ratings — published 2014
Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.89 — 102 ratings — published 2012
The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.37 — 268 ratings — published 1998
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,742 ratings — published 1989
The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.92 — 458 ratings — published 1996
Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.30 — 1,098 ratings — published 2010
“We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.”
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