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Books like Complexity
Complexity by M. Mitchell Waldrop is about complex systems, emergence, interdisciplinary science. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Chaos: Making a New Science
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James Gleick · Science
Chaos: Making a New Science, published in 1987, tells the story of how a loose network of scientists working across meteorology, mathematics, biology, and physics in the 1960s and 1970s developed chaos theory — the study of systems that are deterministic but unpredictable because tiny differences in initial conditions produce wildly different outcomes.
Read the summary → - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn · Science
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, first published in 1962, changed how historians, philosophers, and scientists think about how science advances.
Read the summary → - Thinking in Systems
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Donella H. Meadows · Science
Thinking in Systems is Donella Meadows's introduction to the discipline of systems thinking — a way of understanding why complex things behave the way they do.
Read the summary → - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Philosophy
Antifragile is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's argument that the opposite of fragile is not robust or resilient — it is antifragile.
Read the summary → - The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins · Science
The Selfish Gene reframes evolution from the organism's point of view to the gene's.
Read the summary → - A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking · Science
A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.
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