Suggested readings for lay-people (like myself) and items related to the emerging science of Complexity. Contributions are most welcome.

• The Astonishing Hypothesis - The Scientific Search for the Soul, Crick, Francis, Touchstone, 1994.

• "Back From Chaos" by Edward O. Wilson, Atlantic Monthly, March 1998

• CHAOS - Making of a New Science, Gleick, James, Penguin, 1987.

• COMPLEXIFICATION, Casti, John l., HarperCollins, 1994

• Complexity - The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, Waldrop, Mitchel M., Touchstone, 1993.

• Frontiers of Complexity - The Search for Order in a Chaotic World, Covney, Peter and Highfield, Richard, Fawcett, 1995.

• Fuzzy Thinking, Kosko, Bart, Hyperon, 1993.

• In Search of Schrodinger's Cat - Quantum Physics and Reality, Gribbin, John, Bantam, 1984.

• Leadership and the New Science - Learning About Organization from an Orderly Universe, Wheatley, Margaret J., Berrett-Koehler, 1992.

• Books about and by Richard Feynman - to be listed later.

All the sites listed below are intresting. I suggest Evolution of Complexity, theComplexity Virtural Library and The Chaos Metalink. These 3 are loaded. They contain such a range of information that they are of special interest to novices who don't know much about science but know what they like.
 
The Turbulent Landscapes Exhibit at the Exploratorium is intresting and from there you can go to the Complexity Timeline. This is a short tour of developments of the last century that have led to the emergence of COMPLEXITY.
 
The Articles & Papers are collected from these various sites to help us beginners get started. Look for a program named "frain192.zip" in Fun Software or Fractals - download it - it's a gas!

Ants

Search BarnesandNoble.com for CHAOS

Search BarnesandNoble.com for COMPLEXITY

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