Emergence
Biology 361 = Computer Science 361
Bryn Mawr College
Spring 2007
List of suggested books for student review
(suggestions for additions to this list are welcome)
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 Jacobs
The 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
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