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Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,660 ratings — published 2009
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 3,216 ratings — published 1992
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 42,062 ratings — published 1987
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 24,443 ratings — published 2008
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,457 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 — 5,730 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 — 3,350 ratings — published 2003
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 462 ratings — published 2007
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 — 5,279 ratings — published 2002
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,779 ratings — published 2006
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 53,847 ratings — published 1979
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 59,591 ratings — published 2012
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 391 ratings — published 1995
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 352 ratings — published 1996
A New Kind of Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 2,210 ratings — published 2002
ORIGINS OF ORDER: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (Paperback)
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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 — 124,642 ratings — published 2007
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.51 — 479 ratings — published 2007
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,817 ratings — published 1994
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 — 186 ratings — published
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
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avg rating 4.12 — 208 ratings — published 2010
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,521 ratings — published 2015
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,558 ratings — published 2004
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.29 — 807 ratings — published 2014
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,452 ratings — published 2011
Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 272 ratings — published 1998
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
by (shelved 25 times as complexity)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,248 ratings — published 1997
Understanding Complexity
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avg rating 4.16 — 916 ratings — published 2009
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Paperback)
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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 — 1,735 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)
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avg rating 3.68 — 204 ratings — published 2016
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 663 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 — 1,668 ratings — published 2023
The Evolution of Cooperation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 2,428 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 — 73,482 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 — 1,086 ratings — published 1977
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos (Paperback)
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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 — 512 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)
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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 — 1,474 ratings — published 2003
“All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find.”
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“Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.”
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