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Systems Theory Books
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Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,745 ratings — published 2008
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 443 ratings — published 1969
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 805 ratings — published 2014
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 672 ratings — published 1975
Introduction to Systems Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 144 ratings — published 1991
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,067 ratings — published 1977
The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)
by (shelved 7 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 148 ratings — published 1972
Social Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 252 ratings — published 1995
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,502 ratings — published 1972
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,162 ratings — published 1990
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 462 ratings — published 2007
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,946 ratings — published 1996
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)
by (shelved 5 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 828 ratings — published
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,853 ratings — published 1972
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,711 ratings — published 2004
Designing Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 198 ratings — published 1974
Theory of Society, Volume 1 (Cultural Memory in the Present)
by (shelved 5 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 32 ratings — published 2009
The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,504 ratings — published 1982
Business Dynamics (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 316 ratings — published 1999
Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity - A Platform for Designing Business Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 289 ratings — published 1999
Theory of Society, Volume 2 (Cultural Memory in the Present)
by (shelved 4 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 17 ratings — published 2013
Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 333 ratings — published 2011
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,959 ratings — published 2019
Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.48 — 99 ratings — published 1991
Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.78 — 874 ratings — published 2015
The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 179 ratings — published 2010
Diagnosing the System for Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 52 ratings — published 1985
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,004 ratings — published 2012
General Systems Theory: Problems, Perspectives, Practice (2Nd Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.76 — 25 ratings — published 2006
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,584 ratings — published 2001
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 863,162 ratings — published 2000
Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 25 ratings — published 2002
The Entropy of Capitalism (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 27 ratings — published 2011
Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 689 ratings — published 1989
Essays in Tektology (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published
The Mathematical Theory of Communication (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.38 — 703 ratings — published 1949
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,386 ratings — published 1979
The Reality of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.71 — 205 ratings — published 1996
Art as a Social System (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 65 ratings — published 1995
The Heart of Enterprise (Classic Beer Series)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.37 — 65 ratings — published 1979
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,196 ratings — published 1992
Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,619 ratings — published 2009
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,746 ratings — published 1987
Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 809 ratings — published 1974
Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 949 ratings — published 1967
Platform for Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 50 ratings — published 1975
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.31 — 53,902 ratings — published 2020
The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 67 ratings — published 2002
Forms of Meaning: Modeling Systems Theory and Semiotic Analysis (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published 1999
The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics (Meaning Systems)
by (shelved 2 times as systems-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 35 ratings — published 1997
“So the next time you peer into the open window of a Web browser, you might ask yourself: where does "the network" end? Does it cease with the virtual worlds, images, and minds of the Internet, or with the silicon-electronic matrix of computing devices, or with the electrical grid that powers the show with energies extracted from waterflow and toxic atom? Perhaps the network extends further—to the Jacquard looms and American war machines that loosened the historical dynamic that eventually stuck a magic toxic tablet in your hands, to the billionfold packet-switching meshwork of human neurons that shape and submit to information space, to the capital flows that animate the quick hands of young Filipinas who wire up semiconductors for dollars a day. As you contemplate these widening networks, they may alter the granularity and elasticity of the self that senses them, as well as changing the resilience and tenderness of the threads binding that self to the mutant edge of matter and history. I suspect there is no end to such links, and that this immanent infinity, with its impossible ethical call, makes up the real World Wide Web.”
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“Whereas traditional reductionism sought to find the commonality underlying diversity in reference to a shared substance, such as material atoms, contemporary systems theory seeks to find common features in terms of shared aspects of organization.”
― The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time
― The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time
