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  • Complexity

    The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

    “If you liked Chaos, you’ll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year” (The Washington Post).In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Designing the Mind

    The Principles of Psychitecture

    The Instant Cult Classic on the Art of Reprogramming Your Own Psychological SoftwareA bold and fascinating dive into the nuts and bolts of psychological evolution, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture is part philosophical manifesto, part practical self-development guide, all based on the teachings of legendary thinkers like Marcus Aurelius, Lao Tzu, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Abraham ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Learn to Think in Systems

    Use Systems Archetypes to Understand, Manage, and Fix Complex Problems and Make Smarter Decisions

    Would you like to have better solutions to your problems? Struggling to understand why things went wrong when you did everything right?Learn to Think in Systems can help you with these problems.Systems surround us and we might not even be aware of it. Your household is a system. The bakery on the corner is a system. Your class at school, your department at work, and your weekend soccer team made ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thinking in Systems

    A Primer

    In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Meadows’ newly released manuscript, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Chaos: Making a New Science

    Making a New Science

    by James Gleick ...
    The blockbuster modern science classic that introduced the butterfly effect to the world—even more relevant two decades after it became an international sensationFor centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Trails

    An Exploration

    by Robert Moor ...
    New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra ClubFrom a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works

    Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted

    by Nick Bilton ...
    Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour?The world, as Nick Bilton—with tongue-in-cheek—shows, has been going to hell for a long, long time, and what we are experiencing is the twenty-first-century version of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Emergence

    The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

    In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKA VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARAN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARExplaining wh... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Ubiquity

    Why Catastrophes Happen

    by Mark Buchanan ...
    Critically acclaimed science journalist, Mark Buchanan tells the fascinating story of the discovery that there is a natural structure of instability woven into the fabric of our world, which explains why catastrophes-- both natural and human-- happen.Scientists have recently discovered a new law of nature and its footprints are virtually everywhere-- in the spread of forest fires, mass extinctions ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Systems Thinking For Social Change

    A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results

    "David Stroh has produced an elegant and cogent guide to what works. Research with early learners is showing that children are natural systems thinkers. This book will help to resuscitate these intuitive capabilities and strengthen them in the fire of facing our toughest problems."—Peter Senge, author of The Fifth DisciplineConcrete guidance on how to incorporate systems thinking in problem ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Systems Thinker

    The Systems Thinker Series, #1

    Series Book 1 - The Systems Thinker Series
    The second edition is now available!Find the optimal solutions to your problems. Gain a deep understanding of the "what, why, how, when, how much" questions of your life.Become a Systems Thinker and discover how to approach your life from a completely new perspective.What is systems thinking? Put it simply, thinking about how things interact with one another.Why should this matter to you? Because ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age

    The pioneering young scientist whose work on the structure of small worlds has triggered an avalanche of interest in networks.In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of our connected planet. Whether they bind computers, economies, or ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Chaos

    Making a New Science

    by James Gleick ...
    The “highly entertaining” New York Times bestseller, which explains chaos theory and the butterfly effect, from the author of The Information (Chicago Tribune).For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Romance of Reality

    How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity

    by Bobby Azarian ...
    Why do we exist? For centuries, this question was the sole province of religion and philosophy. But now science is ready to take a seat at the table.According to the prevailing scientific paradigm, the universe tends toward randomness; it functions according to laws without purpose, and the emergence of life is an accident devoid of meaning.But this bleak interpretation of nature is currently ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Interdependence

    Biology and Beyond

    by Kriti Sharma ...
    Series series Meaning Systems
    From biology to economics to information theory, the theme of interdependence is in the air, framing our experiences of all sorts of everyday phenomena. Indeed, the network may be the ascendant metaphor of our time. Yet precisely because the language of interdependence has become so commonplace as to be almost banal, we miss some of its most surprising and far-reaching implications.In ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Systems Theory and Family Therapy

    A Primer

    This book provides an overview of the basic concepts of a systems theoretical perspective using families and family therapy as examples and illustrations of their application in professional practice. This meta-perspective focuses on viewing problems in context. The difference between first-order and second-order cybernetics is explicated. Readers then are invited to see themselves as parts of the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Impact: Six Patterns to Spread Your Social Innovation

    by Al Etmanski ...
    "Impact beautifully distills the insights and deep wisdom of one of the world's great social innovators. Etmanski's book is far more than a practical guide: it's an invitation to re-imagine possibilities for our lives and for the world we create."- David Bornstein, author "How To Change The World"From the Introduction:Do you want to change the world but feel frustrated by the limited impact you ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Bursts

    The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades

    A revolutionary new theory showing how we can predict human behavior-from a radical genius and bestselling authorCan we scientifically predict our future? Scientists and pseudo scientists have been pursuing this mystery for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years. But now, astonishing new research is revealing patterns in human behavior previously thought to be purely random. Precise, orderly, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Learning from Leonardo

    Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius

    by Fritjof Capra ...
    “This remarkable exposition of Leonardo’s work” illuminates how he was centuries ahead of his time—and the lessons we can learn from his style of thought (Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University).Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, architect, and inventor. But he was also, Fritjof Capra argues, a profoundly modern man. Capra’s decade-long study of Leonardo’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In a Flight of Starlings

    The Wonders of Complex Systems

    **From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science“[Giorgio Parisi is] an extraordinary scientist.” —Carlo Rovelli**With In a Flight of Starlings, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work, starting with investigating the principles of physics by observing the flight of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Resilience Thinking

    Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

    Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency."Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Rock, Paper, Scissors

    Game Theory in Everyday Life

    by Len Fisher ...
    Praised by Entertainment Weekly as the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of game theory has helped biologists to understand the evolution of cooperation in nature, and investigates how we might apply those lessons to our own society. In a series of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Systems Thinker - Analytical Skills

    The Systems Thinker Series, #2

    Series Book 2 - The Systems Thinker Series
    Enhance your logic, reason, judgment, and wisdom. Increase your ability to create concise and reasoned arguments using data and evidence, to get a genuine conclusion.The Systems Thinker – Analytical Skills aims to raise the level of your mental performance by focusing on the fundamentals of how to use your mind effectively. This book will show you how to:•Increase your ability to analyze problems ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All of Statistics

    A Concise Course in Statistical Inference

    Series series Springer Texts in Statistics
    Taken literally, the title "All of Statistics" is an exaggeration. But in spirit, the title is apt, as the book does cover a much broader range of topics than a typical introductory book on mathematical statistics. This book is for people who want to learn probability and statistics quickly. It is suitable for graduate or advanced undergraduate students in computer science, mathematics, statistics ... Read more

    $58.99 USD