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Complexity Books
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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,589 ratings — published 2009
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,180 ratings — published 1992
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,537 ratings — published 1987
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,375 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 4.03 — 1,445 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 — 5,644 ratings — published 2017
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,573 ratings — published 2001
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,322 ratings — published 2003
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.94 — 462 ratings — published 2007
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,761 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 — 5,255 ratings — published 2002
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,212 ratings — published 1979
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,670 ratings — published 2012
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.90 — 389 ratings — published 1995
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.03 — 349 ratings — published 1996
A New Kind of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,201 ratings — published 2002
ORIGINS OF ORDER: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.18 — 282 ratings — published 1993
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,309 ratings — published 2007
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.50 — 474 ratings — published 2007
Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.01 — 183 ratings — published
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,802 ratings — published 1994
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,507 ratings — published 2015
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
by (shelved 30 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.12 — 207 ratings — published 2010
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,533 ratings — published 2004
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.29 — 799 ratings — published 2014
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,284 ratings — published 2011
Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.00 — 269 ratings — published 1998
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
by (shelved 26 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,185 ratings — published 1997
Understanding Complexity
by (shelved 23 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.15 — 905 ratings — published 2009
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,538 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 4.23 — 1,726 ratings — published 1992
A Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.68 — 203 ratings — published 2016
The Fractal Geometry of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,293 ratings — published 1977
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.06 — 653 ratings — published 1984
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,940 ratings — published 1996
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,394 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 — 72,278 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 — 1,599 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 — 1,060 ratings — published 1977
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,738 ratings — published 1989
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.85 — 320 ratings — published 1992
Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.39 — 46 ratings — published
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.87 — 439 ratings — published 1969
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.51 — 503 ratings — published 2014
The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.93 — 454 ratings — published 1996
Harnessing Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.72 — 149 ratings — published 2000
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,203 ratings — published 2003
Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.91 — 245 ratings — published 2009
Complexity and the Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.14 — 98 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 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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“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
