A Select Bibliography of Introductory Works on Complexity Theory

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Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers, Order out of Chaos (NY: Bantam, 1984).

Stuart Kauffman, At Home in the Universe (NY: Oxford University Press, 1995).

Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos (NY: Blackwell, 1989).

-----, Nature's Numbers (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1995).

-----, and Jack Cohen, The Collapse of Chaos (NY: Penguin, 1995).

Manuel DeLanda, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (NY: Zone Books, 1991).

-----, "Non-organic Life," in Incorporations (Zone 6), ed. Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter (NY: Zone Books, 1992), 128-167.

-----, A Thousand Years of Non-linear History (NY: Zone Books, 1997.

Gilbert Simondon, "The Genesis of the Individual," in Incorporations, 296-319.