Books to Read

Power Transitions: Strategies for the 21st Century
By Ronald L. Tammen, Jacek Kugler, Douglas Lemke, Carole Alsharabati, Brian Efird, A.F.K. Organski (2000)

By succinctly integrating power transition theory and national policy, this outstanding team of scholars explores emerging issues in world politics in the 21st century, including proliferation and deterrence, the international political economy, regional hierarchies, and the role of alliances. Blending quantitative and traditional analyses, theory and practice, history and informed predictions, Power Transitions draws a map of the new world that will stimulate, provoke, and offer solutions (Amazon).

Emergence: From Chaos To Order
By John H. Holland (1999)

"Emergence" is the notion that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. John Holland, a MacArthur Fellow known as the "father of genetic algorithms," says this seemingly simple notion will be at the heart of the development of machines that can think for themselves. And while he claims that he'd rather do science than write about it, this is his second scientific philosophy book intended to increase public understanding of difficult concepts (Amazon).

Weather Prediction by Numerical Process
By Lewis Fry Richardson (2007)

Forecasting the weather by calculation was first dreamt of by Lewis Fry Richardson. He was ahead of his time and modern weather prediction and climate modelling are witness to the influence of his ideas. This edition contains a foreword by Peter Lynch, setting the original book in context (Amazon).

Modeling Dynamic Economic Systems
By Matthias Ruth and Bruce Hannon (1997)

This book explores the dynamic processes in economic systems, concentrating on the extraction and use of the natural resources required to meet economic needs. Sections cover methods for dynamic modeling in economics, microeconomic models of firms, modeling optimal use of both nonrenewable and renewable resources, and chaos in economic models (Amazon).