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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,670 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 — 3,219 ratings — published 1992
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 42,104 ratings — published 1987
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 24,586 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 — 1,460 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 76 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,752 ratings — published 2017
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,599 ratings — published 2001
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,352 ratings — published 2003
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 463 ratings — published 2007
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,782 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 — 5,278 ratings — published 2002
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,922 ratings — published 1979
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,708 ratings — published 2012
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.90 — 391 ratings — published 1995
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.03 — 352 ratings — published 1996
A New Kind of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,212 ratings — published 2002
ORIGINS OF ORDER: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.19 — 285 ratings — published 1993
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,814 ratings — published 2007
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.50 — 480 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 — 1,818 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 3.99 — 186 ratings — published
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
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avg rating 4.12 — 209 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 — 1,525 ratings — published 2015
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,560 ratings — published 2004
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.29 — 808 ratings — published 2014
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,469 ratings — published 2011
Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.00 — 272 ratings — published 1998
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
by (shelved 25 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,256 ratings — published 1997
Understanding Complexity
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avg rating 4.16 — 917 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 — 1,555 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 — 1,738 ratings — published 1992
The Fractal Geometry of Nature (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,301 ratings — published 1977
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,947 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 4.07 — 668 ratings — published 1984
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,677 ratings — published 2023
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,432 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 — 73,582 ratings — published 2001
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,087 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 — 448 ratings — published 1969
Complexity and the Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 101 ratings — published 2014
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.51 — 511 ratings — published 2014
Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 247 ratings — published 2009
Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 102 ratings — published 2012
The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.93 — 459 ratings — published 1996
Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.31 — 1,101 ratings — published 2010
Harnessing Complexity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 150 ratings — published 2000
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,475 ratings — published 2003
“In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been "kwork." Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word "quark" in the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark." Since "quark" (meaning, for one thing, the cry of a gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with "Mark," as well as "bark" and other such words, I had to find an excuse to pronounce it as "kwork." But the book represents the dreams of a publican named Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Words in the text are typically drawn from several sources at once, like the "portmanteau words" in Through the Looking Glass. From time to time, phrases occur in the book that are partially determined by calls for drinks at the bar. I argued, therefore, that perhaps one of the multiple sources of the cry "Three quarks for Muster Mark" might be "Three quarts for Mister Mark," in which case the pronunciation "kwork" would not be totally unjustified. In any case, the number three fitted perfectly the way quarks occur in nature.”
― The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
― The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
“The usual duty of the “intellectual” is to argue for complexity and to insist that phenomena in the world of ideas should not be sloganized or reduced to easily repeated formulae.”
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