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Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier

10 reviews
Robert Axelrod, Michael D. Cohen

Basic Books, 2001

A beginner's view
As my first venture into the world of complexity and complex adaptive systems this was an interesting book. A lot of what I anecdotally thought about complexity was reinforced through the authors' own anecdotal examples. The examples were from a wide variety of situations, but were explained in a way to be understood by someone without a background in those various areas. However, I think the ...

Computability and Complexity Theory (Texts in Computer Science)

5 reviews
Steven Homer, Alan L. Selman

Springer, 2001

In fact, it is a great and concise book on the subject
This book is aimed as an introductory text book on computer science theory. The book is suited for both undergraduate and graduate studies. I would have never expected a book of only a few pages to cover computability and complexity theory basics from introductory undergraduate to early graduate levels. This is because, the author focusses only on core concepts and strives to make them as clear ...

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.

The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

2 reviews

ILR Press, 2006

A must read for the modern nurse
I purchased this book and "Nursing Against the Odds" by Gordan at the same time. While this book provided inspiring articulation of my own thoughts at this point in my career, the other one was just depressing. I coasted through this book of essays by different authors and felt empowered and encouraged. The chapter by Diana Mason was particularly interesting for me. I think this is a timely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the Edge: Nursing in the Age of Complexity

5 reviews
Claire Lindberg, Sue Nash, ...

CreateSpace, 2008

An Innovative And Thoughtful Complexity Science Resource with Comprehensive Glossary
This innovative and thoughtful text provides nursing educators, leaders, practicing nurses, and researchers with foundational knowledge and key resources on complexity science. This text is recommended for creating co-learning experiences with nursing students and professional nurses in a variety of roles. This book written by nursing scholars and complexity scientists who have played central ...

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 ...

Facilitating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science

3 reviews
Edwin E. Olson, Glenda H. Eoyang, ...

Pfeiffer, 2001

practical book about promising org. change approach
This is an interesting book about an approach to managing and changing organizations, which is quite different from traditional change approaches: complexity theory. You might think: "Ah, here we go again.... Is this just the next new management hype, destined to be forgotten soon?" I don't think so. I think complexity theory is to be taken a bit more serious than that. What is it? It is a ...

Automata, Computability and Complexity: Theory and Applications
Elaine A. Rich

Prentice Hall, 2007

The theoretical underpinnings of computing form a standard part of almost every computer science curriculum. But the classic treatment of this material isolates it from the myriad ways in which the theory influences the design of modern hardware and software systems. The goal of this book is to change that. The book is organized into a core set of chapters (that cover the standard material suggested by the title), followed by a set of appendix ...

Computational Complexity

14 reviews
Christos H. Papadimitriou

Addison Wesley, 1993

Excellent book, but you need some training
This book is excellent. However, you need strong training in the kind of reasoning used in math and CS theory before you can read it. The subject gets very abstract, and may be hard to follow (and that's not Papadimitriou's fault). I would recommend it for people who have already read Sipser's book (working on the exercises), for example.

Weaving Complexity and Business: Engaging the Soul at Work

10 reviews
Roger Lewin, Birute Regine

Texere, 2001

The Best Book on the Business Lessons of Complexity Science
I have read over two dozens books on complexity science and its applications to organizations of all types. Clearly, The Soul At Work is the best of those books. If you already know something about complexity science and its business applications and want to learn more or simply want to get started on the subject, this is the book you should read. Here's why. First, the authors are very ...

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 ...

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.

Complexity and Education: Inquiries Into Learning, Teaching, and Research
Brent Davis, Dennis J. Sumara

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006

This book explores the contributions, actual and potential, of complexity thinking to educational research and practice. While its focus is on the theoretical premises and the methodology, not specific applications, the aim is pragmatic—to present complexity thinking as an important and appropriate attitude for educators and educational researchers. Part I is concerned with global issues around complexity thinking, as read through an ...

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 ...

Communicating Health: Personal, Cultural, and Political Complexities (with InfoTrac®) (Wadsworth Series in ...
Patricia Geist-Martin, Eileen Berlin Ray, ...

Wadsworth Publishing, 2002

Authored by a uniquely qualified team of educators and practitioners, this text utilizes a class-tested case study approach to illustrate the many ways and contexts in which health communication functions. Main topics in COMMUNICATING HEALTH are embedded in compelling stories or cases. Theoretical, conceptual and research findings have been seamlessly integrated throughout the text.

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