A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller (Design Science Collection) by Birkhäuser Boston $52.00
Edmondson clarifies Buckminster Fuller's synergetic geometry in conventional language and mathematics and illuminates his effort to employ synergetics as a strategy for human survival. Updated author Preface and new Foreword by J. Baldwin. clarifies
Edgeware: Lessons from Complexity Science for Health Care Leaders by V H A, Incorporated $38.95
This publication is the first book to address complexity science in health care. It represents a revolutionary new way for health care leaders to think about how they engage employees, work with physicians, manage unmanageably complex tasks and plan for an uncertain future. But it's not for health care workers only - this book is useful to anyone interested in how complexity science is changing...
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change by Harper $25.00
The predicament of all life is uncertainty. While humans have had to deal with chaos since ancient times, only recent has science recognized it as a fundamental force in the universe. Chaos, theory, originally used to understand the movements that create thunderstorms, raging rivers, and hurricanes, is now being applied to everything from medicine to warfare to social dynamics and theories...
Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise by Harpercollins $25.00
A mathematician explores how complexity arises, showing how the universe consists of unpredictable ""dynamical systems"" so subtle that human logic cannot fathom them and laying the groundwork for a ""Science of Surprise."" 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. Tour.
A First Course in Dynamics: with a Panorama of Recent Developments by Cambridge University Press $54.00
The theory of dynamical systems has given rise to the vast new area variously called applied dynamics, nonlinear science, or chaos theory. This introductory text covers the central topological and probabilistic notions in dynamics ranging from Newtonian mechanics to coding theory. The only prerequisite is a basic undergraduate analysis course. The authors use a progression of examples to present...
Synergetics: An Introduction : Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions and Self-Organization in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology (Springer Series in Synergetics) by Springer-Verlag $89.95
This book is an often-requested reprint of two classic texts by H. Haken: "Synergetics. An Introduction" and "Advanced Synergetics". Synergetics, an interdisciplinary research program initiated by H. Haken in 1969, deals with the systematic and methodological approach to the rapidly growing field of complexity. Going well beyond qualitative analogies between complex systems in fields as diverse...
Symmetry in Chaos: A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art, and Nature by Oxford University Press, USA $22.50
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 mathematics, would seem to lie at the opposite end of the spectrum. From the branching of trees to the rose windows of great cathedrals, symmetric...
The Transition to Chaos: In Conservative Classical Systems: Quantum Manifestations by Springer $54.95
The subjects treated here are part of an active and rapidly growing field of research that touches on the foundations of physics and chemistry. Specifically, the book presents, in as simple and coherent a manner as possible, the basic mechanisms that determine the dynamical evolution of both classical and quantum systems in sufficient generality to include nonlinear phenomena. The book begins...
The Design of Inquiring Systems: Basic Concepts of Systems and Organization by Basic Books $19.95