Complexity: A Very Short Introduction
7 best books like Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (John H. Holland): The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Chaos: Making a New Science, On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies, The Liar, Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
| Author | James Gleick |
| ISBN | 0375423729 |
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
The...
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
| Author | Donella H. Meadows |
| ISBN | 1603580557 |
Meadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations...
Chaos: Making a New Science
| Author | James Gleick |
| ISBN | 0140092501 |
Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. In Chaos, James Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times, shows that he resides in this exclusive category. Here he takes on the job of depicting the first years...
| Author | Douglas E. Harding |
| ISBN | 1878019198 |
Headlessness, the experience of "no-self" that mystics of all times have aspired to, is an instantaneous way of "waking up" and becoming fully aware of one's real and abiding nature. Douglas Harding, the highly respected mystic-philosopher, describes his first experience of headlessness in "On...
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
| Author | Geoffrey B. West |
| ISBN | 1594205582 |
Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses.
Scale addresses big, urgent questions about global sustainability, population explosion, urbanization, ageing,...
Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic.
Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a...
Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | Subrata Dasgupta |
| ISBN | 0198733461 |
Over the past sixty years, the spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer is visible for all to see and experience. Yet, the science underpinning this technology is less visible and little understood outside the professional computer science community. As a scientific...
