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Books, articles, and essays for further reading
- Complexity: A Guided Tour — M. Mitchell
- Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos — M. M. Waldrop
- Chaos: Making a New Science — J. Gleick
- At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity — S. A. Kauffman
- A Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society — J. H. Miller
- Size, Function and Life History — W. A. Calder
- Life History Invariants — E. L. Charnov
- On Size and Life — T. A. McMahon and J. T. Bonner
- The Ecological Implications of Body Size — R. H. Peters
- Why Is Animal Size So Important? — K. Schmidt-Nielsen
- Growth, Innovation, Scaling, and the Pace of Life in Cities — L. M. A. Bettencourt, et al.
- A Unified Theory of Urban Living — L.M.A. Bettencourt and G. B. West
- The Mortality of Companies — M.I.G. Daepp, et al.
- Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread—The Lessons from a New Science — Alex Pentland
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics — R. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, and M. Sands
- The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Science in the Twilight of the Scientific Age — John Horgan
- What Is Life? — Erwin Schrödinger
- On Being the Right Size — J.B.S. Haldane
- Problems of Relative Growth — Julian Huxley
- The Principle of Similitude — Lord Rayleigh
- Macroecology — J. H. Brown
- The Fractal Geometry of Nature — B. B. Mandelbrot
- Fractal Physiology — J. B. Bassingthwaighte, L. S. Liebovitch, and B. J. West
- The Fourth Dimension of Life: Fractal Geometry and Allometric Scaling of Organisms — G. B. West, J. H. Brown, and B. J. Enquist
- The Triumph of the City — E. Glaeser
- The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations — I. Morris
- A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World — G. Clark
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs
- Predators and Prey: A New Ecology of Competitio — J. Moore
- Growth, Innovation, Scaling, and the Pace of Life in Cities — L.M.A. Bettencourt, et al.
- Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function — M. Batty and P. Longley
- The New Science of Cities — M. Batty
- Linked: The New Science of Networks — A.-L. Barabási
- The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil — P. Zimbardo
- The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity — S. H. Strogatz
- Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort — G. K. Zipf
- Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life — J. H. Miller and S. E. Page
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable — N. N. Taleb
- Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market—and How to Successfully Transform Them — R. Foster and S. Kaplan
- The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves — W. B. Arthur