Appendix A. Reading List

The following are selected books related to topics in this book. Most are written for a non-technical audience.

  • Axelrod, Robert, Complexity of Cooperation, Princeton University Press, 1997.

  • Axelrod, Robert, The Evolution of Cooperation, Basic Books, 2006.

  • Bak, Per, How Nature Works, Copernicus (Springer), 1996.

  • Barabási, Albert-László, Linked, Perseus Books Group, 2002.

  • Buchanan, Mark, Nexus, W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.

  • Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, 2016.

  • Epstein, Joshua and Axtell, Robert, Growing Artificial Societies, Brookings Institution Press & MIT Press, 1996.

  • Fisher, Len, The Perfect Swarm, Basic Books, 2009.

  • Flake, Gary William, The Computational Beauty of Nature, MIT Press, 2000.

  • Goldstein, Rebecca, Incompleteness, W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.

  • Goodwin, Brian, How the Leopard Changed Its Spots, Princeton University Press, 2001.

  • Holland, John, Hidden Order, Basic Books, 1995.

  • Johnson, Steven, Emergence, Scribner, 2001.

  • Kelly, Kevin, Out of Control, Basic Books, 2002.

  • Kosko, Bart, Fuzzy Thinking, Hyperion, 1993.

  • Levy, Steven, Artificial Life, Pantheon, 1992.

  • Mandelbrot, Benoit, Fractal Geometry of Nature, Times Books, 1982.

  • McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch, The Theory That Would Not Die, Yale University Press, 2011.

  • Mitchell, Melanie, Complexity: A Guided Tour, Oxford University Press, 2009.

  • Waldrop, M. Mitchell, Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, Simon & Schuster, 1992.

  • Resnick, Mitchell, Turtles, ...

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