Emergence Biology 361 = Computer Science 361 Bryn Mawr College Spring 2006

• Robert Axelrod, The Complexity of Cooperation, 1997; The Evolution of Cooperation, 1984.
  
• Per Bak, How Nature Works, 1999
  
• Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Linked, 2003
  
• Mark Buchanan, Nexus, 2002
  
• Malcom Gladwell, The Tipping Point, 2000
  
• Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, 2005
  
• John Holland, Emergence, 1999
  
• Steven Johnson, Emergence, 2001
  
• Stuart Kauffman, At Home in the Universe, 1996
  
• Resnick, Mitchell, Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams, 1997
  
• Steven Strogatz, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, 2003
  
• R. Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity, 1992
  
• Duncan Watts, Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, 2004

Addendum 20 February, as per blog:

• A Feeling for The Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, by Evelyn Fox Keller, 1984
• Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines, by Evelyn Fox Keller, 2003
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs, 1992
• The Nature of Economies, by Jane Jacobs, 2001
• Composing a Life, by Catherine Bateson, 2001
• Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, by K. Anthony Appiah, 2006
• Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values, by Yi-Fu Tuan, 1990

• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstader. ...GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter.
• The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins.
• On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin.
• Creation: Life and how to make it, Steve Grand.
• Vehicles, Valentino Braitenberg.
• The Origins of Order, Stuart Kauffman.