(Paperback)

"Trying to understand a system with multiple interacting components - the weather, for example, or the human body, or the stock market - means dealing with two factors: chaos and complexity. If we don't understand these two essential subjects, we can't understand the real world"--Back cover.

(Paperback)

Explains how scientists who study complexity are convinced that certain constant processes are at work in all kinds of unrelated complex systems.