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41. 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! |
42. Chaos Bites (Phoenix Chronicles, Book 4) by Lori Handeland | |
Mass Market Paperback: 352
Pages
(2010-04-27)
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Editorial Review Product Description It’s not the end of the world—yet. But Doomsday once again lies in wait for demon-slayer Elizabeth Phoenix. Several weeks ago she had no choice but to kill a man she loved. Sawyer was a witch and shape-shifter, a sorcerer of incredible strength. And now he’s started to invade her dreams…in the most dangerous and sensuous ways imaginable. Through her nighttime visits with Sawyer, Liz has acquired a new set of paranormal powers. She has also received a special new gift in the form of Sawyer’s baby. Now nothing is as it seems as Liz combs through the chaos of her new life while trying to outrun death at every turn. She’s going to need all the help she can get—even if that means dealing with her embittered ex-lover Jimmy Sanducci. He may be the only one left she can trust…since every other demon on earth is hell-bent on her destruction. Customer Reviews (7)
I am loving this series
Excellence once again
INTERESTING URBAN FANTASY! CHAOS BITES by Lori Handleland
Latest Phoenix
exhilarating urban fantasy |
43. Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright | |
Mass Market Paperback: 336
Pages
(2006-10-31)
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Good reading!
Intriguing fantasy with a strong voice
Hip re-envisioning of classical mythology
An interesting first entry in a refreshing fantasy trilogy...
Read The Golden Age, and skip this series |
44. 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 |
45. 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 |
46. Stop the Chaos: How to Get Control of Your Life by Beating Alcohol and Drugs by Allen A. Tighe | |
Paperback: 200
Pages
(1998-10-26)
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Getting control of your life
A Preachy Repackaging of 12 Step Recovery
A must read for anyone who wants to stop using! |
47. Chaos War by Greg Pak, Fred Van Lente | |
Paperback: 120
Pages
(2011-04-20)
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48. Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas by Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2006-10-17)
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Great for Math Junkies!
fun with math
Thought-provoking, fun, and funny!
Truth in advertising...
Coincidences,Chaos,and All That Math Jazz |
49. Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 4) by James Luceno | |
Mass Market Paperback: 352
Pages
(2000)
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Han Solo is Back!
QUALITY PAPERBACKS
Like the series, don't like this author
Great Solo adventure
Very average book in an otherwise good series |
50. 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 |
51. Chaos Theory Tamed by Garnett P. Williams, A Joseph Henry Press book | |
Hardcover: 520
Pages
(1997-10-08)
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Requires detailed understanding of mathematics
Get in print, not Kindle
Fantastic Book
Outstanding!
Brilliant |
52. 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... |
53. Order from Chaos: A Six-Step Plan for Organizing Yourself, Your Office, and Your Life by Liz Davenport | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2001-12-18)
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Concrete steps to create order
Order From Chaos
Best organizing book I have read
Tackling The Chaos
Good, but slightly silly |
54. You Majored in What?: Mapping Your Path from Chaos to Career by Katharine Brooks | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2010-03-30)
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Don't let the over rated stars fool you.
General lending libraries will find this a popular pick
Perfect
Great for mid-career changers and moms returning to work
You Majored in What? teaches you to listen and be true to yourself |
55. Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos: Discovering a New Aesthetic of Art, Science, and Nature (A Touchstone Book) by John Briggs | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(1992-11-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Fractals are unique patterns left behind by the unpredictable movements -- the chaos -- of the world at work. The branching patterns of trees, the veins in a hand, water twisting out of a running tap -- all of these are fractals. Learn to recognize them and you will never again see things in quite the same way. Fractals permeate our lives, appearing in places as tiny as the surface of a virus and as majestic as the Grand Canyon. From ancient tribal peoples to modern painters to the animators of Star Wars, artists have been captivated by fractals and have utilized them in their work. Computer buffs are wild about fractals as well, for they can be generated on ordinary home computers. In Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos, science writer John Briggs uses over 170 illustrations to clearly explain the significance -- and more importantly, the beauty -- of fractals. He describes how fractals were discovered, how they are formed, and the unique properties different fractals share. Fractals is a breathtaking guided tour of a brand new aesthetic of art, science, and nature. It will revolutionize the way you see the world and your place within it. * Contains a special bibliography listing fractal generating software for desktop computers Customer Reviews (13)
The best introductory guide to fractals and chaos
staggeringly beautiful
Patterns to Inspire - A Captivating Look into Fractals
Don't buy this book
Great Photos, Poor Content |
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. Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos by Donald J. Wheeler | |
Hardcover: 174
Pages
(2000-09-04)
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Understanding variation the key to mananging chaos
Fantastic book for appreciating process analysis
A MIND CHANGER
Stats in plain language
Book explains variation, statistics & makes sense |
58. Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 5) by James Luceno | |
Mass Market Paperback: 348
Pages
(2000-10-03)
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Okay as a standalone...
Worst Author Ever
3.5 stars - At least it puts Han Solo back in play
Not much here unfortunately...........just filler.
#5 |
59. The Edge of Chaos: Financial Booms, Bubbles, Crashes and Chaos by Bernice Cohen | |
Paperback: 412
Pages
(2002-05-02)
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Summary of the book The objectives of the book are:  To study in detail the stock market crashes, to discover what went wrong and to learn from these past traumatic episodes; and  To identify andexplain the underlying structure of the financial market behavior. Chaosis Discovered Newtonian vs. Chaos For the last 300 years, our thoughts havebeen profoundly influenced by the Newtonian theory, which, as we know,rests on assumption of a linear system. This theory is best applied tosystem with two objects interacting with each other. When used to elucidatethe system with three objects or more, Newtonian theory collapses. Chaostheory, which is based on complex and non-linear system, is a relativelynew discipline (circa 30 years). Its use in social science and field ofphysics have gained wide acceptance. The author attempts to apply thetheory to the financial market. Chaos Rules Chaos describesunpredictable behavior that is governed by rules. Ian Stewart in his book,"Does God Play Dice?" gives the following definition: "Chaos is lawlessbehavior governed entirely by law". Chaos in Financial Market Theauthor comment regarding the stock market behaviors using the chaos theoryis as follows:  Financial market is inherently unstable anddynamic system, and the mood of the majority of its player can flip almostinstantaneously from one state to another. Hence financial market resemblesa chaotic system. An orderly phase may dissolve into chaos & then tipback to a more ordered state.  Stock markets are holistic thatsometimes their collective behaviors will be different from that of theircomponent unit (i.e. individuals & investors). Chaos Theory inActions After noting the similarities between financial markets behaviorand chaos theory, the author studied several important financial crisesover the last 300 years to see whether there was any underlying structurebeneath the crashes. She discovered that many speculative bubbles shared acluster of common features. \ The author does not try to predict when thecrash will happen. Instead, she seeks to uncover what is the underlyingstructure of financial market and how investor can profit from it byassessing in which phase he is at a particular time. The author studiedthe following crashes and described the sequence of events using the tenphase structure: 1. Bubbles of 1720  Mississippi Madness South Sea Fiasco 2. Modern Bubbles  Great Crash1929  Global Crash 1987  Japanese Bubble Bonds Bubble So what if we know the history and chaostheory? How To Be Prepared? Compiling a checklist based on the structureof crash scenario (ten-phase structure) has the followingpurposes:  It is a systematic way of dealing with thesituation.It provides an orderly framework to analyze the signals andprepare oneself for any occurrence of the crash; and  Ithelps the investors to judge more clearly how far along the route of chaosscenario has progressed. (The checklist is elaborated in thetextbook). In addition to the checklist, there is also a need to look outfor other cluster of symptoms or occurrence of other events (such asemergence of new financial tools, collapse of big corporations etc) toconfirm the findings from the checklist. What to do with the checklist? To avoid any avalanche of selling, one must be able to identify at leastthe first 3-5 phases and clear your position at phase 5 or 6 (i.e. whengullible public joins in or when doubt starts to form). However, ifone misses the signal and fails to sell off by phase 6, it is still not toolate to do so as long as it is done before the markets reach the bottom. This will allow one to cash out and reinvest when the markets hit thebottom. What if u misses all the phases?- As the chaos theory shows,the market will turn around eventually.However, the issue is how longwill it take? No one knows. Timing the Crash - Is it possible? Whilst it may not be too difficult to identify the signals of an impendingcrash (based on the phases in the structure of crashes), one can neveraccurately predict the timing of occurrence.Time is the mostuntrustworthy and unpredictable element.As shown in the charts, thepoints might get squeezed together or pulled part -- this is a commonfeature of a chaotic system. Since predicting the exact timing of crashesis highly unreliable, in order to avoid being caught off guard, one has toclosely watch for any trigger event that may unleash a selling cascade.Another strategy is to give up the hope of catching the extreme peak andbottom and be contended as long as you buy near the bottom and sell nearthe top. Conclusion Chaos theory has taught investors how topreserve their capitals from the disaster of a crash.The 3 main points tobear in mind are as follows:  Need to recognize anyunintentional actions of the financial authorities which may create aclassic chaos conditions and prepare own course of actions; Even the most sophisticated and cautious long term investors can becomeirrational and act in tandem with the speculators; and Understand that falling bond prices with rising interest rate may resultfrom the collapse of a financial pump instead of a reflection of thefundamental outlook of the economy. One of the most important events towatch is the action by the presiding authorities which may trigger afinancial pump and set the phase transition in motion.When it happens,one should know how to react. In conclusion, as a Fund Manager, oneshould  Be fully aware of what is happening in the financial,political and economic sectors around the world. One of them could be thetrigger event.  Be able to identify at which phase thefinancial market is in and predict the transition and the edge of chaos. Be able to clear his position and not to be influenced by theherd behavior if he concludes that the market at peak and near the point ofcollapse. This is a tough discipline to follow especially if he has astrict mandate and the clients' expectations increase during the boom. ... Read more |
60. Chaos Point 2012 and Beyond: Appointment with Destiny by Ervin Laszlo | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(2010-09-01)
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Had already read book.Bought it for myself.
Brilliant and Surprisingly Insightful
right between the eyes
Truth coming at us at lightning speed...
Stone, Bronze, Iron and then what? |
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