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Complicated Lives
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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 … |
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Big history and the future of humanity
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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… |
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Complexity theory and project management
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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.… |
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Coherence in the midst of complexity
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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… |
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Complexity, endogenous money and macroeconomic theory
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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 … |
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Decoding Complexity
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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… |
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Emergence in Complex, Cognitive, Social, and Biological Systems
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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… |
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Simulating Social Complexity
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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… |
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Skin in the Game
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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… |
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The Emergence of Everything
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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… |
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How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality
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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… |
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