In this important book, John H. Holland dramatically shows us that the "emergence" of order from chaos has much to teach us about life, mind, and organizations. Creative activities in both the arts and the sciences depend upon an ability to model the world. The most creative of those models exhibits emergent properties, so that "what comes out is more than what goes in." From t...(展开全部)

Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines–from biology to physics, computing to meteorology–than that known as chaos and complexity, the study of complex systems. Now astrophysicist John Gribbin draws on his expertise to explore, in prose that communicates not only the wonder but the substance of ...(展开全部)

悉纳·阿克辛，长期任教于安卡拉大学。 吴奇俊，毕业于上海大学世界史专业，2014-2015学年土耳其海峡大学历史系访问学者。 刘春燕，毕业于上海大学世界史专业，2014-2015学年土耳其海峡大学亚洲研究中心访问学者。

悉纳·阿克辛，长期任教于安卡拉大学。 吴奇俊，毕业于上海大学世界史专业，2014-2015学年土耳其海峡大学历史系访问学者。 刘春燕，毕业于上海大学世界史专业，2014-2015学年土耳其海峡大学亚洲研究中心访问学者。

悉纳·阿克辛，长期任教于安卡拉大学。 吴奇俊，毕业于上海大学世界史专业，2014-2015学年土耳其海峡大学历史系访问学者。 刘春燕，毕业于上海大学世界史专业，2014-2015学年土耳其海峡大学亚洲研究中心访问学者。

Gribbin takes us through the basics with his customary talent for accessibility and clarity' - "Sunday Times". The world around us can be a complex, confusing place. Earthquakes happen without warning, stock markets fluctuate, weather forecasters seldom seem to get it right - even other people continue to baffle us. How do we make sense of it all? In fact, John Gribbin reveals,...(展开全部)

玛里琳·邓恩（Marilyn Dunn），英国格拉斯哥大学历史系高级讲师，研究旨趣涉及死亡、修道等宗教议题，除本书外，还著有《597－700年间盎格鲁－撒克逊人的基督教化——探讨他们的生和死》（The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons 597-700: Dealing with the Living and the Dead ，Continuum, 2008)。

What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according to MIT's antidisciplinarian César Hidalgo, understanding the nature of economic growth demands transcending the social sciences and including the natural sciences of info...(展开全部)

Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers offer an exciting and accessible account of the philosophical implications of thermodynamics. Prigogine and Stengers bring contradictory philosophies of time and chance into a novel...(展开全部)

伊里亚・普里戈金（Ilya Prigogine）教授是比利里布鲁塞尔自由大学索尔维国际物理学和化学研究所所长兼美国奥斯汀得克萨斯大学统计力学和热力学研究中心主任。由于他在建立耗散结构理论方面的贡献，荣获香1977年诺贝尔化学奖。