Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Complicated Lives Complicated Lives William Nelson Complicated Lives examines the greatest conundrum of the modern world: why, despite being richer, healthier and more empowered than ever before, do we continue to feel threatened, under pressure and … OL14906146W
Big history and the future of humanity Big history and the future of humanity Fred Spier ""Big History" places the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe. In doing so, the emerging field of historical study provides us with an overview of the known past in its… OL15470372W
Complexity theory and project management Complexity theory and project management Wanda Curlee "The book will be written by two authors who are members of PMI, educators, and consultants. The book is intended to be a practical guide to the application of complexity theory to virtual projects.… OL15537678W
Coherence in the midst of complexity Coherence in the midst of complexity Hugo K. Letiche "Complexity and emergence (the appearance and impact of the new) can be the bane of managers and their organizations. Both complexity and emergence threaten to upset adherence to predefined categori… OL15947735W
Complexity, endogenous money and macroeconomic theory Complexity, endogenous money and macroeconomic theory Mark Setterfield Celebrating and exploring Basil Moore's interests in and contributions to complexity analysis and macroeconomic theory, this title features 21 original essays by internationally acclaimed and expert … OL18329054W
Decoding Complexity Decoding Complexity James B. Glattfelder Today it appears that we understand more about the universe than about our interconnected socio-economic world. In order to uncover organizational structures and novel features in these systems, we p… OL19840525W
Emergence in Complex, Cognitive, Social, and Biological Systems Emergence in Complex, Cognitive, Social, and Biological Systems Gianfranco Minati The goal of this book, is to recall to the systems community an important challenge to be dealt with in the immediate future: the study and characterization of general features of what is commonly qu… OL19846930W
Simulating Social Complexity Simulating Social Complexity Bruce Edmonds Social systems are among the most complex known. This poses particular problems for those who wish to understand them. The complexity often makes analytic approaches infeasible and natural language a… OL19902184W
Skin in the Game Skin in the Game Nassim Nicholas Taleb The phrase "skin in the game" is one we have often heard but have rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it's also an astonishingly complex worldview that, as Nas… OL21193795W
The Emergence of Everything The Emergence of Everything Harold J. Morowitz When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts--indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different--we call that phenomenon emergence. When… OL2698641W
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality Per Bak Explains the author's theory of self-organized criticality, which presents a picture of nature as perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised state where anything can happen within well-def… OL8059610W