Emergence: Books

Emergence

Biology 361 = Computer Science 361
Bryn Mawr College, Spring 2009

Relevant Books

(additional suggestions welcome in the forum area below)

• K. Anthony Appiah Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, 2006
• Robert Axelrod, The Complexity of Cooperation, 1997; The Evolution of Cooperation, 1984.
• Per Bak, How Nature Works, 1999
• Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life, 2001
• Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Linked, 2003
• Valentino Braitenberg, Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology, 1986
• Mark Buchanan, Nexus, 2002
• Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, 1996
• Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, 1996
• Malcom Gladwell, The Tipping Point, 2000
• Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, 2005
• John Holland, Emergence: From Chaos to Order, 1999
• Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities, 1992; The Nature of Economies, 2001
• Douglas Hofstader, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, 1999
• Steven Johnson, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Softward, 2001
• Stuart Kauffman, The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution, 1993; At Home in the Universe, 1996
• Evely Fox Keller Making Sense of Life: Explaining Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines, 2003
• Resnick, Mitchell, Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams, 1997
• Steven Strogatz, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, 2003
• Yi-Fu Tuan, Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values, 1990
• R. Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity, 1992
• Duncan Watts, Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, 2004