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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,694 ratings — published 2009
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,017 ratings — published 2008
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,344 ratings — published 1987
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,798 ratings — published 2017
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,358 ratings — published 2003
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,609 ratings — published 2001
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,280 ratings — published 2002
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,223 ratings — published 1992
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.30 — 810 ratings — published 2014
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.10 — 60,019 ratings — published 2012
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 463 ratings — published 2007
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 353 ratings — published 1996
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,134 ratings — published 1979
The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.37 — 268 ratings — published 1998
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.90 — 391 ratings — published 1995
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.88 — 451 ratings — published 1969
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,557 ratings — published 1994
A New Kind of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,214 ratings — published 2002
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,443 ratings — published 1984
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,568 ratings — published 2004
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,463 ratings — published 1995
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.12 — 209 ratings — published 2010
The Sciences of the Artificial (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.28 — 696 ratings — published 1969
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,952 ratings — published 1996
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,391 ratings — published 2007
Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.00 — 272 ratings — published 1998
Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.99 — 797 ratings — published 1948
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,786 ratings — published 2006
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,587 ratings — published 1988
The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.92 — 980 ratings — published 2018
Business Dynamics (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.39 — 318 ratings — published 1999
The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 873 ratings — published 2009
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,890 ratings — published 1972
Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.39 — 46 ratings — published
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,840 ratings — published 2018
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.52 — 513 ratings — published 2014
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.08 — 73,917 ratings — published 2001
Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.89 — 102 ratings — published 2012
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.50 — 480 ratings — published 2007
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.93 — 676 ratings — published 1975
The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.92 — 461 ratings — published 1996
The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,366 ratings — published 1984
Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.89 — 71 ratings — published 1992
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,210 ratings — published 2003
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,480 ratings — published 2003
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.01 — 869,463 ratings — published 2000
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,329 ratings — published 1990
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,742 ratings — published 1992
ORIGINS OF ORDER: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.19 — 285 ratings — published 1993
Networks: An Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as complex-systems)
avg rating 4.23 — 206 ratings — published 2010
“That was acceptable, his father told him: you can always try to solve a problem by proving that no solution exists.”
― Chaos: Making a New Science
― Chaos: Making a New Science
“Our complex world is unpredictable and subject to dynamic change that can yield disproportionate and incomprehensible impacts. Relying on arbitrary assumptions does not help quantify the unquantifiable, nor make the unknowable known.”
― The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
― The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
