Book Selections

Each document contains a limited number of verbatim excerpts from good  books.  Selections are copyrighted material and property of the author or publisher.


   

 

Business Perspective

Blown to Bits - Philip Evans & Thomas S. Wurster


Cognitive Science

How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker

Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again - Andy Clark


Complexity Theory

Complexity and Postmodernism - Paul Cilliers

Emergence: From Chaos to Order - John Holland

Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity - John Holland

How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality - Per Bak

 


Creativity

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

 


Philosophy & Science

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge - Edward O. Wilson

Truth: A History and a Guide For the Perplexed - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto  

The Physics of Consciousness - Evan Harris Walker

 


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