BOOKS RELATED TO THE STUDY OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS

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NECSI books

• Bar-Yam, Yaneer, Making Things Work
• Bar-Yam, Yaneer, Dynamics of Complex Systems
• Bar-Yam, Yaneer, ed., Unifying Themes in Complex Systems: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Complex Systems
• Heudin, Jean-Claude, ed., Virtual Worlds: Synthetic Universes, Digital Life, and Complexity

Recent books by NECSI Co-faculty

• Deacon, Terrence, The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain
• Sterman, John D., Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World

Other books related to the study of complex systems

• Axelrod, Robert M., The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration
• Axelrod, Robert M., The Evolution of Cooperation
• Axelrod, Robert M. and Cohen, Michael D., Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier
• Bak, Per, How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality
• Barabási, Albert-László, Linked: The New Science of Networks
• Boisot, Max H., Information Space: A Framework for Learning in Organizations, Institutions and Culture
• Boisot, Max H., Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy
• Brown, Shona L. & Eisenhardt, Kathleen M., Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos
• Conner, Daryl R., Leading at the Edge of Chaos; How to Create the Nimble Organization
• Eve, Raymond A., Chaos, Complexity, and Sociology: Myths, Models, and Theories
• Gladwell, Malcolm, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
• Gleick, James, Chaos: Making a New Science
• Hock, Dee W., The Chaordic Principle: Mixing Chaos and Order to Jump Start the Twenty-First Century
• Holland, John H., Emergence: From Chaos to Order
• Holland, John H., Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
• Kauffman, Stuart A., At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
• Kauffman, Stuart A., The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
• Kiel, L. Douglas, Managing Chaos and Complexity in Government: A New Paradigm for Managing Change, Innovation, and Organizational Renewal
• Lewin, Roger, Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos
• Liu, Jiming, Jin, XiaoLong, and Tsui, Kwok Ching, Autonomy Oriented Computing: From Problem Solving to Complex Systems Modeling
• McMaster, Michael D., The Intelligence Advantage: Organizing for Complexity
• Merry, Uri et al, Coping With Uncertainty: Insights from the New Sciences of Chaos, Self-Organization, and Complexity
• Monks, Robert A. G., The Emperor's Nightingale: Restoring the Integrity of the Corporation in the Age of Shareholder Activism
• Nrretranders, Tor et al, The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
• Oshry, Barry, Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life
• Perrow, Charles, Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay
• Priesmeyer, Henry Richard, Organizations and Chaos: Defining the Methods of Nonlinear Management
• Schelling, Thomas C., Micro Motives and Macro Behavior
• Scott, Alwyn, Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science
• Simon, Herbert Alexander, The Sciences of the Artificial (especially last two chapters)
• Stacey, Ralph D., Complexity and Creativity in Organizations
• Stacey, Ralph D., Managing the Unknowable: Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations
• Stengers, Isabelle & Prigogine, Ilya, The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature
• Stewart, Ian & Cohen, Jack, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind
• Strogatz, Steven, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Engineering
• Strogatz, Steven, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
• Waldrop, M. Mitchell, Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
• Watts, Duncan J., Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
• Weick, Karl E., Sensemaking in Organizations
• Zohar, Danah, Rewiring the Corporate Brain: Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organizations

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