Emergence book list
This is a list of interesting books from the bibliography of Emergence by Steven Johnson.
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work by Daniel Hillis
- Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
- Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams : Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds by Mitchell Resnick
- The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs
- Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas C. Schelling
- The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis Mumford
- Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
- A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Manuel De Landa
There are probably more books in the bibliography that I’d find interesting. These, however, are (mostly) those I find interesting among the ones Johnson has most frequently referred to in the Notes section.