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[edit] Science books related to complex systems

Bak, Per, How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality

Barabási, Albert-László, Linked: The New Science of Networks

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

Deacon, Terrence, The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain

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

Hemelrijk, Charlotte, ed. Self-organisation and evolution of social systems

Heudin, Jean-Claude, ed., Virtual Worlds: Synthetic Universes, Digital Life, and Complexity

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

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

Merry, Uri et al, Coping With Uncertainty: Insights from the New Sciences of Chaos, Self-Organization, and Complexity

Nrretranders, Tor et al, The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

Scott, Alwyn, Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science

Simon, Herbert Alexander, The Sciences of the Artificial (especially last two chapters)

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


[edit] Management books related to 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

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

Kiel, L. Douglas, Managing Chaos and Complexity in Government: A New Paradigm for Managing Change, Innovation, and Organizational Renewal

McMaster, Michael D., The Intelligence Advantage: Organizing for Complexity

Monks, Robert A. G., The Emperor's Nightingale: Restoring the Integrity of the Corporation in the Age of Shareholder Activism

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

Stacey, Ralph D., Complexity and Creativity in Organizations

Stacey, Ralph D., Managing the Unknowable: Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations

Sterman, John D., Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World

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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