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Essence of Chaos by Edward Lorenz Publisher Comments Chaos surrounds us. Seemingly random events -- the flapping of a flag, a storm-driven wave striking the shore, a pinball's path -- often appear to have no order, no rational pattern. Explicating the theory of chaos and the consequences of its principal... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Complexification by John L Casti Publisher Comments A renowned mathematician shows how the "science of surprise" can help explain some of the most inexplicable phenomena in science, nature, the arts, the economy, and more.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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SYNC: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life by Steven Strogatz Publisher Comments The tendency to synchronize may be the most mysterious and pervasive drive in all of nature. It has intrigued some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Norbert Wiener, Brian Josephson, and Arthur... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chance and Chaos (Princeton Science Library) by David Ruelle Publisher Comments How do scientists look at chance, or randomness, and chaos in physical systems? In answering this question for a general audience, Ruelle writes in the best French tradition: he has produced an authoritative and elegant book--a model of clarity... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram Publisher Comments This long-awaited work from one of the world's most respected scientists presents a series of dramatic discoveries never before made public. Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments — illustrated in the book by striking computer... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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Chaos and Fractals: The Mathematics Behind the Computer Graphics by Robert L Devaney Publisher Comments This volume contains the proceedings of a highly successful AMS Short Course on Chaos and Fractals, held during the AMS Centennial Celebration in Providence, Rhode Island in August 1988. Chaos and fractals have been the subject of great interest in... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M Mitchell Waldrop Publisher Comments Why did the stock market crash more than 500 points on a single Monday in 1987? Why do ancient species often remain stable in the fossil record for millions of years and then suddenly disappear? In a world where nice guys often finish last, why do humans... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick Publisher Comments Chaos records the birth of a new science. This new science offers a way of seeing order and pattern where formerly only the random, the erratic, the unpredictable – in short, the chaotic – had been observed. Chaos is a history of discovery... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Perfect Swarm: The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life by Len Fisher Publisher Comments The process of "self-organization" reveals itself in the inanimate worlds of crystals and seashells, but, as Len Fisher shows, it is also evident in living organisms, from fish to ants to human beings. Understanding the "swarm intelligence" inherent in... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty: Graphics from an Unseen World by Clifford A. Pickover Publisher Comments Pickover writes in the spirit of Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach and Mandelbrot's The Fractal Geometry of Nature. With a combination of text and stunning computer-generated images, Pickover reveals an entirely new way of seeing. It is in the field of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Introducing chaos by Ziauddin Sardar Publisher Comments If a butterfly stirs its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Chaos is the most important advance in science since the advent of Quantum Theory. The discovery of randomness in apparently predictable physical systems, has evolved into a new... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion by Stuart A Kauffman Publisher Comments Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the changing... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex by Murray Gell-mann Publisher Comments From one of the architects of the new science of simplicity and complexity comes a highly personal, unifying vision of the natural world. As a theoretical physicist, Murray Gell-Mann has explored nature at its most fundamental level. His achievements... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Symmetry in Chaos: A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art & Nature by Michael Field Publisher Comments Chaotic dynamics (known popularly as chaos theory or, more simply, chaos) is among the most fascinating new fields in modern science, revolutionizing our understanding of order and pattern in nature. Symmetry, a traditional and highly developed area of... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Frontiers of complexity :the search for order in a chaotic world by Peter Coveney Book News Annotation Coveney (Schlumberger Cambridge Research Laboratory) and Highfield (science editor, The Daily Telegraph) illuminate the science of complexity, the study of how single elements organize into complicated structures. They trace how key researchers built... (read more) Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments This book is about the mystery of why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts. Emergence is what happens when an interconnected system of relatively simple elements self-organizes to form more intelligent, more adaptive higher-level... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fractals: Endlessly Repeated Geometrical Figures by Hans Lauwerier List Price $69.50 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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