Updated Bibliography with Comments:
Complexity, Sustainability, and Animal Consciousness
Dr. Carolyn A. (Cary) Neeper, July 2005
Chaos and Complexity—nonfiction for non-scientists:
Bak, Per. How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996. (Essential reading. Enjoyable real-life examples, requirements for a good theory of complexity, and a clarifying statement on the confusion of terms in the popular press.)
Bossomaier, Terry R. J. and David G. Green. Complex Systems. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. (One of the most accessible technical book I’ve found. Requires some math background.)
Buchanan, Mark. Nexus: The Groundbreaking Science of Networks. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. (Especially relevant for the basic concepts governing the interdependent web of existence.)
Camazine, Scott, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Nigel R. Franks, James Sneyd, Guy Theraulaz, Eric Bonabeau. Self-Organization in Biological Systems. Princeton University Press, 2001.
Chaisson, Eric J. Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. (Don’t miss this one. An overview of self-organization working with natural selection at all levels of nature, including the Big Bang.)
Greene, Brian. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory. New York: W.W.Norton, 1999. (See also Laughlin, A Different Universe and Thuan, The Secret Melody, for three different takes on current cosmology.)
Gribbin, John. Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity. New York, Random House, 2004. (A must read: Finally the physicists are getting into the act and doing a great job of explaining with clarity the depth of information helpful in understanding complexity (networks and systems thinking) and why such understanding is essential, whatever your interests.
Holland, John H. Emergence: From Chaos to Order. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1998. (Another favorite. Includes amazing demonstrations of emergence in simple games and networks.)
Kauffman, Stuart A. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. (An exciting review of Kauffman’s testable, mechanistic theory of evolution derived from genomic modeling.)
Kauffman, Stuart A. The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. (How self-organization works with natural selection in biology.)
Laughlin, Robert B. A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down. New York, Basic Books, 2005. (Laughlin makes a convincing case for emergence in everything. A fun read with lots of one-liners and analogies from human society that are worth digging into your memory of undergraduate physics to make sense of.)
Prigogine, Ilya and Isabelle Stengers. Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature. London: Heinemann, 1984. (The early classic on dissipative and adaptive systems that jump-started complexity studies.)
Solé, Ricard and Brian Goodwin. Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology. New York: Basic Books, 2000. (Another must read. A good update on modern biology, including a clear summary of two theoretical mechanisms for the origin of life.
Thuan, Trinh Xuan. Chaos and Harmony: Perspectives on Scientific Revolutions of the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. (One of my favorite authors. A beautifully written overview.)
Thuan, Trinh Xuan. The Secret Melody: An Man Created the Universe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. (Thuan’s even-handed review of cosmological theories for the non-scientist. What theory looks most likely?)
Ward, Peter D. and Donald Brownlee. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe. New York: Springer Verlag Copernicus, 2000. (Though size and probability, chemistry, and self-organization at all levels of complexity suggest that life arose independently throughout the universe, that life is most likely very small. Big animals may require rare special conditions to evolve. A good fun read.)
Williams, Garnett P. Chaos Theory Tamed. Washington D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 1997. (Garnett emphasizes the importance of parameter values in generating chaos in nonlinear systems.)
Theology and Social Sciences Impacted by Complexity Studies
Barbour, Ian G. Religion and Science: The Gifford Lectures. San Francisco: Harper, 1997. (This is the revised and expanded edition of Religion in an Age of Science, 1990, a comprehensive summary of scientific findings and how they relate to religious thinking, especially process theology. Recommended as a must read.
Barbour, Ian G. When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners? San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2000. (An academic approach. Barbour does not highlight the role of science as a source of religious inspiration or awe and does not discuss the importance of distinguishing the sources of ones thinking and writing. I.e. is a statement falsifiable, empirical information or not?)
Gregersen, Niels Henrik. From Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. (A thoughtful, accessible look at complexity, especially self-organization and theism.)
Kiel, L. Douglas and Euel Elliott. Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. (An introduction and review of direct applications.)
Peacocke, Arthur. Paths From Science Towards God: The End of All Our Exploring. Oxford: One World, 2001. (An in-depth look at modern science and how it impacts religion.)
Polkinghorne, John. Quarks, Chaos and Christianity: Questions to Science and Religion. New York: Crossroad, 1994. (An Anglican priest and physicist, Polkinghorne integrates his theology with complexity theory, then makes a leap to Christian doctrine.)
Polkinghorne, John. Faith, Science and Understanding. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. (More chaos theory and complexity in Christian theology.)
Raymo, Chet. Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Religion. New York: Walker and Company, 1998. (An entertaining, easy read, a good book for a lay discussion group on the general topic “Distinguishing Science and Religion.”)
Russell, Robert John, Nancey Murphy and Arthur R. Peacocke Editors. Chaos and Complexity: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, second edition. Berkeley, CA: The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory Publications, 1997. (Exploration of the Christian God acting in nature. Some confusion about the role of chaos in complex systems.)
Taylor, Barbara Brown. The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion. Cambridge: Cowley Publications, 2000. (An Episcopal priest tells of her inspiration from chaos theory and complexity ideas and integrates them with her theology.)
Waldrop, M. Mitchell. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992. (The story of how studies in complexity began at the Santa Fe Institute, or What happens when physicists and economists try to talk to each other)
Wheatley, Margaret J. Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1999.
Note: Minimal but clear explanations of the new sciences are followed by practical advice on how to use the lessons learned in leadership and organizational management. Wheatley’s book suggests: complexity principles impacting how we organize. See the essay under "My Writings."
Sustainability:
Brown, Lester R. Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. New York: W.W.Norton, 2001. (If you are depressed by numbers, read the third section first for inspiring examples of good things happening.)
Brown, Lester R. Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble. New York, W.W.Norton, 2003.
Daly, Herman. Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
Gelbspan, Ross. Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled the Climate Crisis—and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster. New York: Basic Books, 2004.
Meyer, Aubrey. Contraction and Convergence: The Global Solution to Climate Change. Schumacher Briefing #5. Devon, UK: Green Books for the Schumacher Society, 2000.
Madron, Roy and John Jopling. Gaian Democracies: Redefining Globalisation and People-Power. Schumacher Briefing #9. Devon, UK: Green Books for the Schumacher Society, 2000.
Studies in Animal Consciousness:
Carroll, Sean B. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom. New York: W.W.Norton, 2005.
Csànyi, Vilmos. Translated by Richard E. Quandt. If Dogs Could Talk: Exploring the Canine Mind. New York, North Point Press, 2005.
DeWaal, Frans. Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals. MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Friend, Tim. Animal Talk: Breaking the Codes of Animal Language. New York, Free Press, 2004.
Masson, Jeffrey M. and Susan McCarthy. When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals. New York, Dell Publishing, 1995.
BIBLIOGRAPHY from Shawne: An Alien’s Quest
* Recommended Non-Fiction
--"In Search of the Elusive Megaplume." Discover. March, 1999, pp. 110-115.
--"Making Sense of Modern Cosmology." Scientific American, January, 2001.
Allègre, Claude. From Stone to Star: A View of Modern Geology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Armstrong, Karen. A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. New York: Ballantine Books, 1993.
Armstrong, Karen. The Battle For God. New York: Ballantine Books, 2000.
* Bak, Per. How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1996.
Barbour, Ian G. Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues. New York: Harper Collins, 1990.
* Barbour, Ian G. When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners? San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2000.
Barrow, John D. Between Inner Space and Outer Space: Essays on Science, Art and Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Bernstein, Jeremy Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmos. New York: Basic Books, 1993.
Bossomaier, Terry and David Green. Complex Systems. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Bossomaier, Terry and David Green. Patterns in the Sand: Computers, Complexity, and Everyday Life. Reading, MA: Helix Books, 1998.
Briggs, John and F. David Peat. Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.
* Briggs, John and F. David Peat. Seven Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
Brockman, John. The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
Brown, Lester R., Project Director. State of the World 1998. A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society. New York: W.W.Norton & Co., 1998.
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1949.
* Capra, Fritjof. The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
Casti, John L. "Confronting Science’s Logical Limits." Scientific American, October 1996, pp. 102-105.
* Chaisson, Eric J. Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de. Christianity and Evolution. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., 1969.
Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de. Science and Christ. New York: Harper and Row, 1968.
Coveney, Peter, and Roger Highfield. Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1995.
Cowen, Ron. "A Comet’s Odd Orbit Hints at Hidden Planet." Science News, April 7, 2001, p. 213.
Cowen, Ron. "From Here to Eternity: Tracking the Future of the Cosmos," Science News, Vol. 151, April 5, 1997. Pp. 208-209.
Crail, Ted. Apetalk and Whalespeak: The Quest for Interspecies Communication. Los Angeles, J.P. Tarcher, Inc., 1981.
Crutchfield, James P., J. Doyne Farmer, Norman H. Packard and Robert Shaw. "Chaos." Scientific American. December 1986.
Daly, Herman E. Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
Davies, Paul. The cosmic Blueprint. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Davies, Paul. The Mind of God. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.
Dawkins, Richard. Climbing Mount Improbable. New York, W.W.Norton & Co., 1996.
De Waal, Frans. Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Dingus, Lowell and Timothy Rowe. The Mistaken Extinction: dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1998.
Ditto, William L., and Louis M. Pecora. "Mastering Chaos." Scientific American. August 1993: 78-84.
Durham, Frank, and Robert D. Purrington. Frame of the Universe: A History of Physical Cosmology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
Duve, Christian de. Vital Dust: The Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth. Basic Books, 1995.
Dyson, Freeman J. Infinite In All Directions. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.
Dyson, Freeman J. The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Ehrlich, Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich. Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future. Washington D.C.: Island Press, 1996.
Eigen, Manfred. Steps Toward Life: A Perspective on Evolution. Oxford: Oxford Univesity Press, 1992.
Einstein, Albert. Relativity: The Special and General Theory. New York: Crown Publishers, 1961.
Feynman, Richard Phillips. The Meaning of It All. Reading, MA: Perseus Books Group, 1999.
Field, Michael, and Martin Golubitsky. Symmetry in Chaos: A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art and Nature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Gell-Mann, Murray. "What is Complexity?" Complexity, Vol.1 No.1 (1995):16-19.
Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
Goldberger, Ary L. David R. Rigney and Bruce J. West. "Chaos and Fractals in Human Physiology." Scientific American, February 1990, pp. 43-50.
Gould, James L. and Carol Grant Gould. Life at the Edge. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1989.
Gould, Stephen Jay. Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes, New York, W. W. Norton & Co., 1983.
Gould, Stephen Jay. "Noneverlapping Magisteria," Natural History, 3/97, p. 16f.
Gribbin, John. In The Beginning: The Birth of the Living Universe. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993.
Gribbin, John. The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Gross, Paul R., and Norman Levitt. Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Gross, Paul R., Norman Levitt and Martin W. Lew, editors. The Flight From Science and Reason. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1997.
Harold, Franklin M. The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms and the Order of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Hartshorne, Charles and William L. Reese. Philosophers Speak of God. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1953.
Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. New York: Bantam Books, 1988.
Hawking, Stephen, and Roger Penrose. The Nature of Space and Time. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
* Holland, John H. Emergence: From Chaos to Order. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1998.
* Holland, John H. and Heather Mimnaugh. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity. Reading, MA: Perseus PPublishing, 1996.
Horgan, John. "Complexifying Freud." Scientific American, September 1995, p. 28.
Hughes, Howard C. Sensory Exotica: A World Beyond Human Experience. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999.
Jastrow, Rovert. God and the Astronomers. New York, W. W. Norton & Co., 2000.
Jeans, Sir James. Physics and Philosophy. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. (New York: Dover, 1981.)
Jensen, Roderick V. "Classical Chaos." American Scientist, Vol. 75, 3-4/87, pp. 168-181.
Jonas, Doris and David Jonas. Other Senses Other Worlds. New York: Stein and Day, 1976.
* Kauffman, Stuart A. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
* Kauffman, Stuart A. The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Kaufmann III, William J. Black Holes and Warped Spacetime. San Francisco: W.H.Freeman and Company, 1979.
Kellert, Stephen H. In the Wake of Chaos: Unpredictable Order in Dynamical Systems. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Kiel, L. Douglas and Euel Elliott. Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Krauss, Lawrence M. Beyond Star Trek: Physics aFrom Alien Invasions to the End of Time. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
Krauss, Lawrence. The Physics of Star Trek. New York: Basic Books, 1995.
Krauss, Lawrence. Quintessence: The Mystery of Missing Mass in the Universe. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Kung, Hans and David Tracy. Paradigm Change in Theology: A Symposium For the Future. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1989.
Lederman, Leon, with Dick Teresi. The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
Leslie, John. The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction. Routledge, 1996
Lloyd, Seth. "Complexity Simplified, Review by." Scientific American, May 1996, p. 104.
Macy, Joanna. World as Lover, World as Self. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1991.
Morowitz, Harold J. The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Nadeau, Robert and Menas Kafatos. The Non-local Universe: The new Physics and Matters of the Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Newton, Roger G. The Truth of Science: Physical Theories and Reality. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Parker, Barry. Chaos in the Cosmos: The Stunning Complexity of the Universe. New York: Plenum Publishing Co., 1996.
Patterson, Francine and Eugene Linden. The Education of Koko. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981.
* Peitgen, H.O., and P.H. Richter. The Beauty of Fractals: Images of Complex Dynamical Systems. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1986.
Piel, Gerard. The Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
Pennock, Robert T. Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1999.
Peterson, Dale and Jane Goodall. Visions of Caliban. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
Peterson, I. "Tilted: Stable Earth, Chaotic Mars." Science News, Vol. 143, February 27, 1993, pp. 143f.
* Polkinghorne, John. Quarks, Chaos and Christianity: Questions to Science and Religion. New York: Crossroad, 1994.
Prigogine, Ilya. From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences. San Francisco: Freeman, 1980.
Prigogine, Ilya. The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc., 1996.
* Prigogine, Ilya and Isabelle Stengers. Order Out of Chaos. London: Heinemann, 1984.
Raloff, Janet. "The Human Numbers Crunch," Science News. June 22, 1999, pp. 396-397.
* Raymo, Chet. Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Religion. New York: Walker and Company, 1998.
Rees, Martin. Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Reese, William L. Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion. New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1980.
Ronan, Colin A. The Natural History of the Universe: From the Big Bang to the End of Time. New York: Macmillan, 1991.
Rothman, Tony and George Sudarshan. Doubt and Certainty. Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1998.
Ruelle, David. Chance and Chaos. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Russell, Robert John, Nancey Murphy and Arthur R. Peacocke Editors. Chaos and Complexity: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, second edition. Berkeley, CA: The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and Vatican City State: Vatican Observatory Publications, 1997.
Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. New York: Random House, 1997.
Sagan, Carl. The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence. New York: Random House, 1977.
Scott, Alwyn. Stairway to the Mind: The Controversial New Science of Consciousness. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995.
Shermer, Michael. The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. The Meaning and End of Religion. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962.
Smoot, George, and Keay Davidson. Wrinkles in Time. New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1993.
* Solé, Ricard and Brian Goodwin. Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Stewart, Ian Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
Sullivan, Walter. We Are Not Alone: The Continuing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. New York: Dutton, 1993.
* Taylor, Barbara Brown. The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion. Cambridge: Cowley Publications, 2000.
Taylor, Gordon Rattray. The Great Evolution Mystery. New York: Harper and Row, 1983.
Thompson, Mel. Philosophy of Religion. Chicago: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company, 1997.
Thorne, Kip S. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy. New York: W.W.Norton and Company, 1994.
* Thuan, Trinh Xuan. Chaos and Harmony: Perspectives on Scientific Revolutions of the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
* Thuan, Trinh Xuan. The Secret Melody. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Van den Beukel, Anthony. The Physicists and God: The New Priests of Religion? N. Andover, MA: Genesis Publishing Co., 1995.
Waldrop, M. Mitchell. Complexity: The Emerging Science At the Edge of Order and Chaos. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.
* Ward, Peter D. and Donald Brownlee. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe. New York: Springer Verlag Copernicus, 2000.
** Wheatley, Margaret J. Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World, Second Edition. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers,1999.
Wilber, Ken, editor. Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists. Boston: Shambhala, 2001.
Wilson, Edward O. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Ziman, John. Real Science: What it is, and What it means. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
