On this Site

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Bak Per, (1999), How Nature Works, The Science of Self Organised Criticality, Copernicus Books
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Looks at Self Organised Criticality and Power Law Distributions. A good read

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Barabasi Albert-Lazlo, (2003), Linked: How everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means, Plume Books
A good easy read about small world networks
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Briggs John and Peat F David, (1989), Turbulent Mirror, An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness, Harper and Rowe, New York
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An easy to read guide, lots of diagrams and pictures

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Buchanan Mark, (2002), Nexus, Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks, W.W. Norton & Co. New York
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A good easy read on small world networks

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Buchanan Mark, (2002), Ubiquity, Why Catastrophes Happen, Three Rivers Press
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Another great read from Mark Buchanan

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Capra Fritjof, (1997), The Web of Life, A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter, Flamingo, London
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A very good first reader. Youmay also like to read his next book, The Hidden Connections, Flamingo, (2003). This book looks more at complexity in social systems.

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Cohen Jack and Stewart Ian, (1994), The Collapse of Chaos, Discovering simplicity in a complex world, Penguin, London
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A great book going into a bit more depth.

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Gleick James, (1987), Chaos, Making a New Science, Abacus, London.
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The 'bible' of Chaos Theory. The first popular exploration of Chaos Theory that still has great depth. He goes into some depth, so I would not recommend it as a first reader on  Chaos.

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Goerner Sally J, (1995), Chaos and the Ecological Universe, Overseas Publishers Association, Amsterdam
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Great information, a bit more technical

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Gribbin John, (2004), Deep Simplicity, Chaos, complexity and the Emergence of Life, Penguin, Allen Lane, London
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Really great book, good wide ranging, easy to read, pciture of chaos and complexity

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Gladwell Malcolm, (2000), The Tipping Point, How Little Things can make a Big Difference, Abacus, London
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An excellent easy read on Small World Networks and Tipping Points

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Johnson Steven, (2001), Emergence, the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software, Penguin, London
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Easy reader

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Kauffman Stuart, (1996), At Home in the Universe, the Search for Laws of Self Organisation and Complexity, Oxford University Press
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A classic book on chaos, complextity and evolution

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Kelly Kevin, (1994), Out of Control, The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World, Addison Wesley
Amazon Link    Kevin Kelly's web page

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Kosko, Bart, (1994), Fuzzy Thinking, The New Science of Fuzzy Logic, Hyperion,
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Bart has a lot of personality that shows through and makes a mathematical book easy to read.

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Lewin Roger, (1992), Complexity, Life at the Edge of Chaos, McMillan, New York
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Easy Reader, includes stories of the people of the Santa Fe Institute

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McNeill Daniel and Freiberger Paul, (1993), Fuzzy Logic, The Revolutionary Computer Technology that is Changing our World, Touchstone, New York
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Progogine Ilya and Stengers Isobelle, (1984), Order out of Chaos, Bantam
This was an early classic in the field of chaos. Ilya Prigogine pioneered much of the work on dissipative systems.
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Stacey Ralph, (2001), Complex Responsive Processes in Organisations: Learning and Knowledge Creation, (Complexity and Emeregence in Organisations), Routledge
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Strogatz Steven, (2003), Sync, The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, Hyperion, New York
I would recommend reading other east read books before strating this to be familiar with some of the concepts raised.
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Taylor Mark C (2001), The Moment of Complexity:Emerging network Culture, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Tracing the development from, a reductionist, to post-modern to a network culture in the modern world.
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Waldrop M Mitchel, (1992), Complexity, the Emerging Science at the Edge of Chaos, Touchstone, New York
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Good easy read. Good background on the development of the Santa Fe Institute

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Ward Mark, ( 2001), Universality, the Underlying Theory behind Life, the Universe and Everything
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A good easy read

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Watts Duncan J, (2003), Six Degrees, The Science of a Connected Age, W W Norton & Co, New York
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Another good, easy read on small world networks

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