Emergence, Spring, 2006

Emergence
Biology 361 = Computer Science 361

(suggestions for additions to this list are welcome)

K. Anthony Appiah Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, 2006
Robert Axelrod, The Complexity of Cooperation, 1997; The Evolution of Cooperation, 1984.
Per Bak, How Nature Works, 1999
Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life, 2001
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Linked, 2003
Valentino Braitenberg, Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology, 1986
Mark Buchanan, Nexus, 2002
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, 1996
Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, 1996
Malcom Gladwell, The Tipping Point, 2000
Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, 2005
John Holland, Emergence: From Chaos to Order, 1999
Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities, 1992; The Nature of Economies, 2001
Douglas Hofstader, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, 1999
Steven Johnson, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Softward, 2001
Stuart Kauffman, The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution, 1993; At Home in the Universe, 1996
Evely Fox Keller Making Sense of Life: Explaining Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines, 2003
Resnick, Mitchell, Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams, 1997
Steven Strogatz, Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, 2003
Yi-Fu Tuan, Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values, 1990
R. Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity, 1992
Duncan Watts, Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, 2004

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