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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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