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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, RobertThe 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, Termites, and Traffic Jams, Bradford, 1997.
• Rucker, Rudy, The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2005.
• Sawyer, R. Keith, Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Schelling, Thomas, Micromotives and Macrobehaviors, W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.
• Strogatz, Steven, Sync, Hachette Books, 2003.
• Watts, Duncan, Six Degrees, W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
• Wolfram, Stephen, A New Kind Of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002.

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