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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,702 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 — 3,228 ratings — published 1992
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,447 ratings — published 1987
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,399 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 — 1,465 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 — 5,825 ratings — published 2017
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,611 ratings — published 2001
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,363 ratings — published 2003
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as complexity)
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 — 1,787 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 — 5,281 ratings — published 2002
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,301 ratings — published 1979
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,159 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 — 2,216 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 — 125,695 ratings — published 2007
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.50 — 478 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 — 1,816 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)
by (shelved 30 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.12 — 210 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 — 1,530 ratings — published 2015
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,570 ratings — published 2004
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.30 — 811 ratings — published 2014
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,530 ratings — published 2011
Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.99 — 273 ratings — published 1998
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
by (shelved 25 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,281 ratings — published 1997
Understanding Complexity
by (shelved 24 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.16 — 929 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 — 1,559 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 — 1,741 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 — 204 ratings — published 2016
The Fractal Geometry of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,302 ratings — published 1977
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,954 ratings — published 1996
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.07 — 674 ratings — published 1984
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,718 ratings — published 2023
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,450 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 — 74,055 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 — 1,091 ratings — published 1977
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 3.88 — 452 ratings — published 1969
Complexity and the Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.17 — 102 ratings — published 2014
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.52 — 513 ratings — published 2014
Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.92 — 247 ratings — published 2009
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 End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.92 — 461 ratings — published 1996
Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.31 — 1,107 ratings — published 2010
Harnessing Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.72 — 151 ratings — published 2000
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as complexity)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,480 ratings — published 2003
“Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if one takes time to understand her, there is something beautiful to find, something simple to be loved. But she goes unloved, for being misunderstood.”
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