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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,486 ratings — published 2009
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
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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)
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avg rating 3.94 — 461 ratings — published 2007
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,746 ratings — published 2006
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,217 ratings — published 2002
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 52,171 ratings — published 1979
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 57,027 ratings — published 2012
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 389 ratings — published 1995
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 335 ratings — published 1996
A New Kind of Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 2,183 ratings — published 2002
ORIGINS OF ORDER: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 279 ratings — published 1993
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 120,865 ratings — published 2007
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory (Paperback)
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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)
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avg rating 3.99 — 180 ratings — published
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
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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)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,488 ratings — published 2015
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
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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
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avg rating 4.09 — 6,070 ratings — published 1997
Understanding Complexity
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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)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,525 ratings — published 1994
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
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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)
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avg rating 3.71 — 200 ratings — published 2016
The Fractal Geometry of Nature (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,283 ratings — published 1977
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 634 ratings — published 1984
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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avg rating 4.08 — 70,756 ratings — published 2001
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 315 ratings — published 1992
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 2,314 ratings — published 1984
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small (Paperback)
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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)
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avg rating 3.90 — 1,184 ratings — published 2003
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being (Hardcover)
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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)
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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)
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avg rating 4.15 — 93 ratings — published 2014
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.51 — 489 ratings — published 2014
The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 268 ratings — published 1998
The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 438 ratings — published 1996
“If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.”
― The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
― The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
“What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.”
― Healology
― Healology












