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41. Emergence: From Chaos To Order (Helix Books) by John H. Holland | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(1999-04-23)
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Great concepts, but a little repetitive at times
Another great book by Holland
First steps towards a future theory of emergence
an undispensable completion of "hidden order"
Toss Up |
42. Prime Chaos: Adventures in Chaos Magic (Occult Studies) by Phil Hine | |
Paperback: 248
Pages
(2010-02-01)
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Excellent book on Chaos magick
Vague Beyond Belief
good but vague
Group Chaos This book is geared towards group work and a large section is dedicated to it.As a lone wolf mage you might not find it satisfying and I would suggest "Condensed Chaos" by the same author, Phil Hine.However if you are interested in learning and experiencing magic as a group Prime Chaos will definately be a very valuable assistant with its approach and ideas.
decent read From what I've seen of most chaos magick books is that they try to be anti-dogma yet their beliefs as a whole embraces dogma, like Peter Carol. For instance his belief that everything has an oppisite, this is in essence dogma. If this sounds like I am totaly tearing down the chaos beliefs I appologize... I just question the validity of it's sources. ... Read more |
43. Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business by Richard Pascale, Mark Milleman, Linda Gioja | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2001-12)
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Chaos theory for business (and otehr leaders)
Great introduction to a fascinating new field
Chaos and order are at the edge
Biology is destiny for companies, too
Shoddy science research The business research appears well done, but the science reserach that is supposedly it backing up is abysmal.The impression this book has left me is that the writers started with their theories and then handpicked some scientific anecdotes and (sometimes erroneous) generalities to support some of their claims, while other claims (like the Law of Requisite Variety) have no substantiation from the life sciences attempted.This is a backwards approach; I would have liked to see the authors examine the scientific research and then see what the business implications are. Three examples of erroneous generalities: 1. Endemic island organisms just "tweaking the status quo" (in reality, this is where the greatest diversity happens; its the 'weedy' organisms like starlings and dandelions that adapt by just 'tweaking'). (And I will try to ignore the goof about the dodo being from the South Pacific). 2. The idea that cooperation and altruism are major forces that organisms "seek" (in reality, these have been discovered to be incidental effects). 3.Equating the idea that 'every molecule in the human body replaces itself via genetic instructions' with the idea that 'human and corporate bodies are rejuvenated by fresh and varied genetic material'.Those are two very opposed statements. There is so much biological research that has major implications for organizational research that is lacking here:Memetics and primate social systems are two in particular. To conclude:The authors apparently have a poor grasp of the biological sciences, so that means their attempts at backing up their claims with biological reserach is suspect at best. ... Read more |
44. Custody Chaos, Personal Peace: Sharing Custody with an Ex Who is Driving You Crazy by Jeffrey P. Wittman | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2001-10-01)
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A must read!
The Best Book I Read After My Divorce
Not for extreme Chaos
Great Book with Practical Applications
The only book you need... |
45. Seven Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change by John Briggs, F David Peat | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2000-03-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description If you have ever felt your life was out of control and headed toward chaos,science has an important message: Life is chaos, and that's a very exciting thing! In this eye-opening book, John Briggs and F. David Peat reveal sevenenlightening lessons for embracing the chaos of daily life. Be Creative: Use Butterfly Power: Go With the Flow: Explore What's Between: See the Art of the World: Live Within Time: Rejoin the Whole: Life is impossible to control--instead of fighting this truth, Seven Life Lessons of Chaos shows you how to accept, celebrate, and use it to live life to its fullest. Customer Reviews (16)
Fantastic!!! One of the best books on the subject.
How do I apply these lessons to improve my life?
A little science and a little religion
Chaos Will Not Be Ignored!
fascinating |
46. Chaos War by Greg Pak, Fred Van Lente | |
Paperback: 120
Pages
(2011-04-20)
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47. Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life by Steven H. Strogatz | |
Paperback: 352
Pages
(2004-04-14)
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Editorial Review Product Description At once elegant and riveting, Sync tells the story of the dawn of a new science. Steven Strogatz, a leading mathematician in the fields of chaos and complexity theory, explains how enormous systems can synchronize themselves, from the electrons in a superconductor to the pacemaker cells in our hearts. He shows that although these phenomena might seem unrelated on the surface, at a deeper level there is a connection, forged by the unifying power of mathematics. Customer Reviews (62)
Fascinating subject touching a lot of fields
Great book!
Allocate the time to better understand
Interesting read, but ...
very poor |
48. Titans of Chaos (The Chronicles of Chaos) by John C. Wright | |
Mass Market Paperback: 385
Pages
(2008-03-04)
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Mythology Lover's Dream Come True
Good reading
War epic? Teen sex comedy? Miss Manners for minor gods?
Not quite perfectly chaotic...
Classic Mythology reimagined for the 21st century |
49. Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth (The Wellek Library Lectures) by Elizabeth Grosz | |
Hardcover: 136
Pages
(2008-05-07)
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50. Blues & Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer by Robert Palmer | |
Hardcover: 452
Pages
(2009-11-10)
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Editorial Review Product Description A member of the elite group of the defining rock critics who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, Palmer possessed a vision so complete that, as DeCurtis writes, "it's almost as if, if you read Bob, you didn't need to read anyone else." Blues & Chaos features some of his most memorable pieces, including gripping stories about John Lennon, Led Zeppelin, Moroccan trance music, Miles Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Philip Glass, and Muddy Waters. Wonderfully entertaining, infused with passion, and deeply inspiring, Blues & Chaos is a must for music fans everywhere. Customer Reviews (2)
read this book!
GREAT COLLECTION OF WRITING ON MUSIC |
51. Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Burning Man Event by Katherine K. Chen | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(2009-09-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description In the summer of 2008, nearly fifty thousand people traveled to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to participate in the countercultural arts event Burning Man. Founded on a commitment to expression and community, the annual weeklong festival presents unique challenges to its organizers. Over four years Katherine K. Chen regularly participated in organizing efforts to safely and successfully create a temporary community in the middle of the desert under the hot August sun. Enabling Creative Chaos tracks how a small, underfunded group of organizers transformed into an unconventional corporation with a ten-million-dollar budget and two thousand volunteers. Over the years, Burning Man’s organizers have experimented with different management models; learned how to recruit, motivate, and retain volunteers; and developed strategies to handle regulatory agencies and respond to media coverage. This remarkable evolution, Chen reveals, offers important lessons for managers in any organization, particularly in uncertain times. Customer Reviews (1)
The business of Burning Man |
52. The Death of Chaos (Saga of Recluce) by L. E. Modesitt Jr. | |
Mass Market Paperback: 640
Pages
(1996-06-15)
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Meh, it's OK
The Death of Chaos - mini-me "Library Binding"
Not Free SF Reader
Chaos and Order vie for control of this review
The best book of the series!! (so far) Not only the story line makes this the best book in the series thus far.The characters are lovable and believable, while at the same time completely badass.The dialect and the relationships between characters in this book are very well thought out and realistic.The one thing that I thought Modesitt could use a little work on is his obsession with minute details, some of which don't really need to be included.I mean, he kinda turns a long story into an even longer book by included lots of information that isn't really pertinant to the storyline. ... Read more |
53. Order Out of Chaos by Ilya Prigogine | |
Hardcover: 349
Pages
(1984-08-12)
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Bad Philosophical Work
Greater than Newton
A thorough study of the history of quantum physics and an exhaustive description of how order emerges from chaos
A classic on self-organization
Dissipative structures what? Chaos |
54. Order in Chaos (A Templar Novel) by Jack Whyte | |
Paperback: 928
Pages
(2010-07-27)
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saved some money
Boring, pedantic and terminally slow
Excellent Knightly Adventure Tale,not a history lesson.
Possibly Whyte's Best!
A fitting third volume to the trilogy |
55. Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise by Manfred Schroeder | |
Paperback: 448
Pages
(2009-08-21)
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Excellent introduction to fractals and power laws
Collection of specific cases
A Chaotic Heaven
Great Math Book
For the uninitiated!.--Fun too! |
56. Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science by Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jürgens, Dietmar Saupe | |
Hardcover: 864
Pages
(2004-02-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description The most appealing aspect about Chaos andFractals has to be its hundreds of images and graphics (withdozens in full-color) used to illustrate key concepts. Even themath-averse reader should be able to follow the basic presentation ofchaos and fractals here. Since fractals often mimic natural shapessuch as mountains, plants, and other biological forms, they lendthemselves especially well to visual representation. Early chaptershere document the mathematical oddities (or "monsters") such as theSierpinski Gasket and the Koch Curve, which laid the groundwork forlater discoveries in fractals. The book does a fine job of placingrecent discoveries about chaos into a tradition of earliermathematical research. Its description of the work of mathematicianslike Pascal, Kepler, Poincaré, Sierpinski, Koch, and Mandelbrotmakes for a fine read, a detective story that ends with the discoveryof order in chaos. (For programmers, the authors provide shortalgorithms and BASIC code, which lets you try out plotting variousfractals on your own.) This is not, however, only a book of prettypictures. For the reader who needs the mathematics behind chaostheory, the authors in no way dumb down the details. (But because thericher mathematical material is set off from the main text, thegeneral reader can still make headway without getting lost.) Therehave been advances in the field since this book's publication in 1992,but Chaos and Fractals remains an authoritative generalreference on chaos theory and fractals. A must for math students (andmath enthusiasts), Chaos and Fractals also deserves a place onthe bookshelf of any general reader or programmer who wants tounderstand how today's mathematicians and scientists make sense of ourworld using chaos theory. --Richard Dragan Topicscovered: Overview of fractals and chaos theory, feedback andmultiple reduction copy machines (MRCMs), the Cantor Set, theSierpinski Gasket and Carpet, the Pascal Triangle, the Koch Curve,Julia Sets, similarity, measuring fractal curves, fractal dimensions,transformations and contraction mapping, image compression, chaosgames, fractals and nature, L-systems, cellular automata basics,attractors and strange attractors, Henon's Attractor, Rössler andLorenz Attractors, randomness in fractals, the Brownian motion,fractal landscapes, sensitivity and periodic points, complexarithmetic basics, the Mandelbrot Set, and multifractal measures. Customer Reviews (13)
This book is a dream come true.
It's all true: Best single source on fractals-but get the 1st ed.
Compare the editions
Excellent tutorial on nonlinearity
A good introduction This is a sizable book, and space prohibits a detailed review, but some of the more interesting discussions in it include: 1. The video feedback experiment, which can be done with only a video camera and a TV set. This is always a crowd pleaser, at whatever level of the audience it is presented to. 2. The comparison between doing iteration of a chaotic map on two different calculating machines: a CASIO and an HP. The difference is very dramatic, illustrating the effect of finite accuracy arithmetic. 3. The pictures illustrating the Chinese arithmetic triangle and Pascal's triangle as it appeared in Japan in 1781. 4. The space-filling curve and its relation to the problem of defining dimension from a topological standpoint. This discussion motivates the idea of covering dimension, which the authors overview with great clarity. They also give a rigorous definition of the Hausdorff dimension and discuss its differences with the box counting dimension. 5. The many excellent color plates in the book, especially the one illustrating a cast of the venous and arterial system of a child's kidney. 6. The difficulty in measuring power laws in practice. 7. Image encoding using iterated function systems, which has become very important recently in satellite image analysis. This leads into a discussion of the Hausdorff distance, which is of enormous importance not only in the study of fractals but also in general topology: the famous hyperspaces of closed sets in a metric space. 8. The relation between chaos and randomness, discussed by the authors in the context of the "chaos game." 9. L-systems, which are motivated with a model of cell division. 10. the number theory behind Pascal's triangle. 11. The simulation of Brownian motion. 12. The Lyapunov exponent for smooth transformations. 13. The property of ergodicity and mixing for transformations, the authors pointing out that true ergodic behavior cannot be obtained in a computer where only a a finite collection of numbers is representable. 13. The concept of topological conjugacy. 14. The existence of homoclinic points in a dynamical system. These are very important in physical applications of chaos. 15. The Rossler attractor and its pictorial representation. 16. How to calculate the dimensions of strange attractors. 17. How to calculate Lyapunov exponents from time series, which is of great interest in many different applications, especially finance. 18. The Julia set, which the authors relate eventually to potential theory. ... Read more |
57. Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy) by Jean-Claude Izzo | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(2005-11-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description "Jean-Claude Izzo's . . . growing literary renown and huge sales are leading to a recognizable new trend in continental fiction: the rise of the sophisticated Mediterranean thriller. . . . Caught between pride and crime, racism and fraternity, tragedy and light, messy urbanization and generous beauty, the city for [detective Fabio Montale] is a Utopia, an ultimate port of call for exiles. There, he is torn between fatalism and revolt, despair and sensualism."-The Economist This first installment in the legendary Marseilles Trilogy sees Fabio Montale turning his back on a police force marred by corruption and racism and taking the fight against the mafia into his own hands. Jean-Claude Izzo achieved astoundingly rapid success with his Marseilles Trilogy. He died in Marseilles in 2000 at the age of 55. Customer Reviews (11)
A taste of gritty Marseilles
Dark, Desperate, Depressing - What's Not To Love?
The ties that bind
Marseilles Noir
Gritty portrait of Marseilles--French noir |
58. Fugitives of Chaos (Tor Fantasy) by John C. Wright | |
Mass Market Paperback: 368
Pages
(2007-06-26)
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What a ride!
An OK follow-up to ORPHANS OF CHAOS
The second in a series...
Do not read until you've read Book One
Choas ontinues...and amazingly so! |
59. Children of Chaos by Dave Duncan | |
Mass Market Paperback: 432
Pages
(2007-02-06)
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Hack and slash
Duncan shows off his gift for fantasy in the first of the Dodec duology
Interesting characters in an interesting world
Doing it right
The Face of Weru |
60. Trading Chaos: Applying Expert Techniques to Maximize Your Profits (A Marketplace Book) by Marketplace Books | |
Hardcover: 288
Pages
(1995-06-23)
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Editorial Review Product Description Chaos theory now stands at the cutting edge of financial decision-making methods. The product of years of scientific investigation into unpredictable phenomena, it has the potential to offer traders entirely new perspectives on the movements of markets—and less risky routes to greater, more consistent profitability. Unlike other books on the subject, Trading Chaos takes chaos analysis out of the realm of the abstract and makes complex concepts easy to understand and use. It offers you the most practical, comprehensive guide available to applying chaos theory to the real world of trading and investing. In this breakthrough work, author Bill Williams gives you the benefit of his unique qualifications: 35 years of successful trading and a PhD in psychology. The instructional techniques used in Trading Chaos have been tested and refined in the workshops, seminars, and private tutoring sessions Dr. Williams has conducted in 12 different countries. Designed for all traders—from beginner to experienced professional—Trading Chaos introduces you to the financial applications of chaos in five graduated stages, starting with a clear, nontechnical introduction (Level One: The Novice Trader) all the way to chart analysis, fractals, Elliott wave, and advanced nonlinear dynamics (Level Five: The Expert Trader). Trading Chaos probes depths of human and economic behavior that other books do not even mention, including: Numerous charts, trading models, analysis spreadsheets, and review questions reinforce the key concepts and help insure full comprehension of the material. Regardless of your current degree of expertise, Trading Chaos will take you to new levels of trading confidence and increased profit. This practical guide to the powerful tools of chaos theory will help you make better, more profitable trades "Bill Williams brings a unique background and experience to the commodity trading world. His approach to becoming a successful trader includes many fresh and fascinating concepts for traders of all experience levels."—Bruce Babcock Editor, Commodity Traders Consumer Report "Bill Williams has demystified the Elliott Wave. His technical approach is an innovative and effective way to trade markets for novice and expert traders alike."—Bob Koppel Skylane Trading Group "Trading Chaos by Bill Williams is an excellent guide to profiting from a market which is nonlinear in structure. The book is divided into logical levels of trading techniques useful to the novice and expert trader. I was genuinely surprised that the expert can still learn refreshingly new techniques at each level presented."—Timothy C. Slater Managing Director of Dow Jones Telerate Seminars Trading Chaos takes chaos theory out of the abstract realm and into the real world of practical investment decision-making. Using the techniques in this remarkable book, you will uncover the hidden patterns of what appear to be the random, unpredictable movements of the commodity, futures, and options markets. Regardless of your current level of experience, expert commodity trader and trainer Bill Williams will give you the skills and insights to move to levels of trading ability you would not have imagined possible. Clear, practical, and nontechnical—Unlike other books on chaos theory, Trading Chaos is designed to be easy to understand and use Unique organizational format—Introduces the reader to the financial applications of chaos in five graduated stages, from Novice to Expert Trader Expert advice on avoiding common psychological traps and pitfalls—Including such self-limiting afflictions as the "paralysis of analysis," "opinionitis," and the dangers of trading on individual belief systems A wealth of supplementary materials—Charts, trading models, trade plans, analysis spreadsheets, and trading diaries illustrate and reinforce key concepts Customer Reviews (21)
trading chaos
Great info on Chaos Trading
As Simple as it is Powerful
Incomprehensible
Joke If you are interested in chaos and trading, start with Edgar Peters books such as Chaos and the Capital Markets. The publisher, Wiley, should be ashamed to put out this sort of drivel.Bill Williams is a joke.If you think your trading style is based on your body type, then maybe this book will help you feel better about losing; otherwise skip it and Bill Williams, PhD.'s other lobotomized treatises on trading. ... Read more |
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