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The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture

7 reviews
Mark C. Taylor

University Of Chicago Press, 2003

Theory of Everything
Mark C. Taylor is among those very rare writers and thinkers who are able to take many disparate disciplines of knowledge and perform a synthesis which creates wisdom. With "The Moment of Complexity" he does this and more. The book is not a technical treatise on a specific field, not a presentation of new scientific findings; it's not even one of those futurist manifestos that all those former ...

Edgeware: insights from complexity science for health care leaders

3 reviews
Brenda Zimmerman

CreateSpace, 1998

Complexity science explained to the masses!
As an innovation matures, it moves from one characteristic group of adopters to another. The topics of complexity and nonlinear dynamics were initially adopted by people who were considered "outliers" by their peer group, "freaks". Such innovators are comfortable spanning across disciplinary boundaries to learn how something works. The successful diffusion of the innovation does not occur ...

Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice: A Framework for Clinicians and Counselors

3 reviews
Pamela A. Hays

American Psychological Association (APA), 2001

Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice: A Framework for Clinicians and Counselors
It's an excellent book by all standards. It's more than met my expectation. It was a new book anyway.It also came on time. Thanks.

Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapy

1 review
Pamela A., Ph.D. Hays

American Psychological Association (APA), 2007

A "must-have" for any practicing or aspiring therapist
Now in a fully updated and expanded second edition, Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapy is a guide for clinicians, counselors, and psychologists to taking into account issues what author Pamela A. Hays, Ph.D. refers to as the "ADDRESSING" framework - Age, Developmental and acquired Disabilities, Religion, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic status, Sexual ...

Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books)

14 reviews
John Holland

Basic Books, 1996

John Holland is the master
In the worlds of Complexity and Artificial Intelligence, the name of John Holland is revered, and for good reason. One of the most important contributions to both fields was Holland's invention of genetic algorithms, a class of optimization techniques that applies a survival-of-the-fittest heuristic to a broad range of otherwise intractable problems. He is certifiably a genius, and his words on ...

Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

67 reviews
M. Mitchell Waldrop

Simon & Schuster, 1992

Interesting story
The main thread of the book is the Santa Fe Institute, a multidisciplinary research and education center founded in 1984 in the US. The institute deals with complex adaptive systems from physical, biological, computational, and social point of view. Complexity can be found in for instance environmental, technological, biological, economic, and political systems. Hence, this research area is ...

Conquering Complexity in Your Business: How Wal-Mart, Toyota, and Other Top Companies Are Breaking Through ...

8 reviews
Michael L. George, Stephen A. Wilson

McGraw-Hill, 2004

Compelling Business Case for Conquering Complexity
I found Conquering Complexity provides an excellent framework and lays out a compelling business case for why and how you should focus on complexity. This is the best guide out there in terms of a comprehensive approach to identify, quantify and attack complexity. The book is a very practical and pragmatic read with a wealth of real world examples and illustrations that reinforce concepts layed ...

The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration

2 reviews
Robert Axelrod

Princeton University Press, 1997

Fun to read
A sequel to his prior book, "the evolution of cooperation". Iterated prisoner's dilemma is the center of this book, with a particular focus on the collaboration in the interests of competiion. No mathmatical background required and usefull referenced included.

Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

5 reviews
Robert Venturi

"The Museum of Modern Art, New York", 1977

Gateway towards looking at architecture
I had to read this book for a class specifically regarding Robert Venturi and the postmodernism movement that he became a leading proponent of. However, this book is NOT a manifesto for a postmodern vacabulary- rather, this book looks at all architecture from the Parthenon to the common family home. Let me say that I have read many architectural theory books, but nothing that really inspired me ...

The Complexity Crisis: Why to many products, markets, and customers are crippling your company--and what to ...

3 reviews
John L Mariotti

Adams Media, 2008

Rescue your company from Asian competition
If you don't buy this book and then 15 more for your staff, you probably aren't qualified to save your company from Asian competition? This guy has been there done that and what he proposes is not just "word salad". It works and creates a common worthy goal for your company while all your employees work together to get there. Once you read this and apply it to your company, you will be ...

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

43 reviews
Eric Evans

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003

Excellent book
If your process for writing an application is to start with the database, or to start designing UI, you should read this book. There is nothing new in this book -- but you really should read it. This book details the way many architects and analysts have been creating their applications for years, and for good reason. They start by creating domain classes that help represent data in a way ...

Computational Complexity: A Conceptual Perspective
Oded Goldreich

Cambridge University Press, 2008

This book offers a comprehensive perspective to modern topics in complexity theory, which is a central field of the theoretical foundations of computer science. It addresses the looming question of what can be achieved within a limited amount of time with or without other limited natural computational resources. Can be used as an introduction for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as either a textbook or for self-study, or to experts, ...

Systems Thinking, Second Edition: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business ...

23 reviews
Jamshid Gharajedaghi

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005

Don't be afraid,
This is really aimed at the reader who wishes to work on the transformation of whole organisations. Demonstrating the multi-dimensional relationships between organisational design, performance and behaviour. This work has had a profound effect on my thinking and development of management ideas. It integrates many concepts into a systemic whole. I have used this book with many management teams ...

At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity

59 reviews
Stuart Kauffman

Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

Proposals to Unanswered Questions
Stuart Kaufman's At Home in the Universe is a lay redaction his scientific hypotheses from his Origins of Order, a rich, fascinating, sophisticated, and complementary set of hypotheses added to Darwin's theories of evolution. For the moment, at least, they are the promising fruit of speculative or theoretical biological hypotheses (with physics, chemistry, geology, paleontology, mathematics, game ...

Managing Business Complexity: Discovering Strategic Solutions with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

2 reviews
Michael J. North, Charles M. Macal

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Simplifying the complex
I purchased this text to assist me in completing my doctoral dissertation that is based on complexity theory. The authors simplify agent-based modeling to the point that anyone interested can quickly get indoctrinated into the arena and, at a minimum, be able to understand and converse the major topics. For those like me who wish to delve even further into the research of complexity, the text is ...

The Complexity of Connection: Writings from the Stone Center's Jean Baker Miller Training Institute

1 review

The Guilford Press, 2004

Complexity of Connection
More academic than I anticipated! So I've procrastinated really getting through it. C.

Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos

9 reviews
Roger Lewin

University Of Chicago Press, 2000

Why read complexity?
I am not a scientist. I am, however, interested in a wide variety of subjects and fascinated by complexity. I am not referring now to the book, or the subject but the expression in the real world of all that there is to know and understand. How can anyone live and not recognise at the deepest levels of their understanding that everything that exists does so in dependence on other things that ...

Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals

2 reviews
Michael Batty

The MIT Press, 2007

Tremendous resource
This book is an immense collection of research on the application of complex systems to urban spatial analysis. While this book is not extensive and is probably not meant as a textbook on complex systems in its entirety, I highly recommend it for those interested in urban spatial analysis. The applications of the techniques go beyond geography and are useful in sociology, economics, or urban ...

Thinking in Complexity: The Computational Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and Mankind

3 reviews
Klaus Mainzer

Springer, 2007

understandable highest level science with cultural backg
The book covers a broad field - all parts in close connection with the others and its background in modern science and historic cultural connotations. The theoretical aspects are merged with lively explanations. Readable for the non-specialist, understandable for the average science-educated and meaningful for the specilaists, both in physical systems science and in philosophy. A top-notch ...

Complexity Explained (Springer Complexity)

2 reviews
Péter Érdi

Springer, 2007

A great starting place on a path to understanding
First, let me say I only write reviews for what I believe are extraordinary works. Anyone bold enough to take on the task of giving insight into the patterns and features of complexity, then accomplishes what he set out to do, has done something extraordinary. The reality of complexity is far different from the legend of complexity. It cannot be explained in one setting with a simple ...

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