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Phase Transitions
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 35.00Phase transitions--changes between different states of organization in a complex system--have long helped to explain physics concepts, such as why water freezes into a solid or boils to become a gas. How might phase transitions shed light on important problems in biological and ecological complex systems? Exploring the origins and implications of... more...
Robust Optimization-Directed Design
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2006; US$ 69.99Robust design is the often unpleasant issue crucial in much multidisciplinary optimal design work. There is enormous practical interest in strategies for applying optimization tools to the development of robust solutions and designs in several areas. This book contains contributions that explore these different strategies. more...
Synchronization in Oscillatory Networks
Springer 2007; US$ 84.99This work systematically investigates a large number of oscillatory network configurations that are able to describe many real systems such as electric power grids, lasers or even the heart muscle, to name but a few. The book is conceived as an introduction to the field for graduate students in physics and applied mathematics as well as being a compendium... more...
Thinking in Complexity
Springer 2007; US$ 54.99This new edition also treats smart materials and artificial life. A new chapter on information and computational dynamics takes up many recent discussions in the community. more...
Pattern Formation and Dynamics in Nonequilibrium Systems
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 80.00Account of how complex patterns form in sustained nonequilibrium systems; for graduate students in biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and physics. more...
Branches
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 21.99As part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, acclaimed science writer Philip Ball here looks at the form and growth of branching networks in the natural world, and what we can learn from them.Many patterns in nature show a branching form - trees, river deltas, blood vessels, lightning, the cracks that form in the glazing... more...
Flow
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 17.99From the swirl of a wisp of smoke to eddies in rivers, and the huge persistent storm system that is the Great Spot on Jupiter, we see similar forms and patterns wherever there is flow - whether the movement of wind, water, sand, or flocks of birds. It is the complex dynamics of flow that structures our atmosphere, land, and oceans.Part of a trilogy... more...
Complexity
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 16.99What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of individual neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? What is it that guides self-organizing structures like the immune system, the World Wide Web, the global economy, and the human genome? These are... more...
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Basic Books 2008; US$ 15.95The IgNobel Prize-winning author of How to Dunk a Doughnut draws on the science of game theory to explain how human beings cooperate in everyday life. more...
Weak Chaos and Quasi-Regular Patterns
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 49.00This is a paperback edition of the first title in the Cambridge Nonlinear Science Series. more...









