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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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3.96 avg rating — 119,875 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 570,071 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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4.04 avg rating — 16,900 ratings
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Complexity: A Guided Tour
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Pro Truth: A Practical Plan for Putting Truth Back Into Politics
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4.39 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
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3.95 avg rating — 3,544 ratings
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Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
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4.11 avg rating — 5,397 ratings
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
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Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
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4.28 avg rating — 406 ratings
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
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4.05 avg rating — 3,112 ratings
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A New Kind of Science
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3.62 avg rating — 2,173 ratings
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
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4.08 avg rating — 70,095 ratings
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Gödel's Proof
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4.19 avg rating — 5,514 ratings
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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3.95 avg rating — 24,170 ratings
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At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
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4.02 avg rating — 1,428 ratings
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Thinking In Systems: A Primer
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4.19 avg rating — 21,112 ratings
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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
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Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory
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3.49 avg rating — 464 ratings
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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
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Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 629 ratings
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On Intelligence
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Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
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3.74 avg rating — 4,075 ratings
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Emergence: From Chaos To Order
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering, Second Edition (Studies in Nonlinearity)
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4.38 avg rating — 1,518 ratings
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The Evolution of Cooperation
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4.25 avg rating — 2,290 ratings
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The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
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4.19 avg rating — 279 ratings
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FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
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3.70 avg rating — 399 ratings
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Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
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4.49 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships
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3.92 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Diversity and Complexity
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4.12 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
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4.13 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Infinite Jest
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4.25 avg rating — 99,344 ratings
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Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books)
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3.89 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Complexity and the Economy
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4.15 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
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Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems
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4.37 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature
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The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature
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Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science
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Scaling in Biology
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Rationalist Spirituality: An Exploration of the Meaning of Life and Existence Informed by Logic and Science
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4.40 avg rating — 200 ratings
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A Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society
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3.70 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems (Economies of Asia; 14)
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The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide
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The Perfect Swarm: The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life
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Weak Links: The Universal Key to the Stability of Networks and Complex Systems
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Chance and Chaos
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The Limits to Growth
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How Brains Make Up Their Minds
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SYMMETRY AND COMPLEXITY: THE SPIRIT AND BEAUTY OF NONLINEAR SCIENCE (World Scientific Nonlinear Science Series a)
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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
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Thinking and Deciding
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The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration
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Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
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3.97 avg rating — 1,473 ratings
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Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019
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Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
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A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life
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Thinking in Complexity, 3rd Edition, Revised & Enlarged
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Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion
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Teorías de caos y catástrofes para médicos, biólogos y psicólogos : las biomatemáticas para el siglo XXI
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Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades
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Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications
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The End of The Computer (Thunder Valley Trilogy, #1)
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The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Leaders
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God, the Evolver: A Secular Approach to the Divine
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Against All Odds: How to Play Lotteries, If You Must
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The Power of Discipline: How to Use Self Control and Mental Toughness to Achieve Your Goals by Daniel Walter
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Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now
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Digital Transformation Is Not Digital
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Don't Forget to Ask: How to sell your position and negotiate anything with anyone
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
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The Nature of Code
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The Ecstatic Stock Market
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Deep Tech and the Amplified Organisation: How to elevate, scale and amplify your business through the New 4Ps of platforms, purpose, people and planet
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The Story of Humanity: Ecology & Consequence
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
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Beyond Simplicity: Why Studying Complex Concepts is Essential
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Entre El Tiempo y La Eternidad
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Complexiteit: Het grensgebied van de chaos
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Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
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Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer?
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Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World
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Computers, pattern, chaos, and beauty: Graphics from an unseen world
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Chaos for Beginners
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The Universe as Automaton: From Simplicity and Symmetry to Complexity (SpringerBriefs in Complexity Book 1)
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Navigating Complexity in International Development: Facilitating sustainable change at scale
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Making Things Work: Solving Complex Problems in a Complex World
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Liderança e a Nova Ciência
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Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities
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Foundational Papers in Complexity Science: Volume 2
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The Mathematics Devotional: Celebrating the Wisdom and Beauty of Mathematics
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The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
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Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life
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Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now
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11-25-19 update: Awesome list - excellent additions. So much to choose from! Now we just have to work on the physicists and their types who explain away the 2nd Law and won't give up their reductionist time symmetry.