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John H. Holland, Emergence from chaos to order (1998) Oxford University Press, ISBN 0738201421
Steven Johnson, Emergence (2002) Scribner, ISBN 0684868768
Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) Ballantine Books, ISBN 0226039056
Kevin Kelly, Out of Control (1994) Perseus Books Group, ISBN 0201483408
Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science (2002), ISBN 1579550088.
Mario Augusto Bunge, "Emergence and Convergence" (2001)
Jochen Fromm, The emergence of complexity (http://www.upress.uni-kassel.de/abstracts/3-89958-069-9.html) (
2004) Kassel University Press, ISBN 3899580699
Douglas R Hofstadter, "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An eternal Golden Braid" (1979) Harvester Press
Thomas C. Schelling, "Micromotives and Macrobehavior" (1978) W. W. Norton and Company
Harold J. Morowitz, The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex (2002) Oxford University Press, ISBN 019513513X
Armand Delsemme, Our Cosmic Origins: From the Big Bang to the Emergence of Life and Intelligence (1998) Cambridge University Press
John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry, The Major Transitions in Evolution (1997) Oxford University Press, ISBN 019850294X