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Thinking in Systems: a Primer by Donella H. Meadows
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.02The classic book on systems thinking, with more than half a million copies sold worldwide! This is a fabulous book. This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing. Forbes Perfect for fans of Kate Raworth, Rutger Bregman and... -
Systems Thinking for Social Change by David Peter Stroh 9781603585804
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.43"David Stroh has produced an elegant and cogent guide to what works. Research with early learners is showing that children are natural systems thinkers. This book will help to resuscitate these intuitive capabilities and strengthen them in the fire of... -
All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference by Larry Wasserman 9781441923226
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £47.61Taken literally, the title "All of Statistics" is an exaggeration. But in spirit, the title is apt, as the book does cover a much broader range of topics than a typical introductory book on mathematical statistics. This book is for people who want to... -
Growing Wings on the Way: Systems Thinking for Messy Situations by Rosalind Armson 9781908009364
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £21.25You may be: - trying to fix the healthcare system in your country... - dealing with family break-up... - exploring change - and making it happen - in your organisation... - worrying about how to look after your elderly parents... In any case, you'll know... -
Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.79What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading... -
Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way it Does by Philip Ball
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £28.13Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals of a seashell and the branching veins of a leaf. Revealing the... -
Applications of Lie Groups to Differential Equations by Peter J. Olver 9780387950006
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £40.10Symmetry methods have long been recognized to be of great importance for the study of the differential equations. This book provides a solid introduction to those applications of Lie groups to differential equations which have proved to be useful in... -
Humberto Maturana: Reflections on Bringing Forth Worlds Frederick Steier 9781788361088
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £19.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788361088Author Frederick SteierFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 175mm * 9mm -
Ecology and Natural History (Collins New Naturalist Library) by David Wilkinson 9780008293659
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £20.18Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains key ideas of this crucial branch of science, using Britain's ecosystems to illustrate each point. ... -
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.47A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. In Linked , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of... -
An Introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo by Nicolas Chopin 9783030478476
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £54.29This book provides a general introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods, also known as particle filters. These methods have become a staple for the sequential analysis of data in such diverse fields as signal processing, epidemiology, machine... -
Systems Thinking, Systems Practice: Includes a 30-Year Retrospective Peter Checkland (Lancaster University, UK) 9780471986065
RRP: £50.95Booksplease Price: £44.71Systems Thinking, Systems Practice "Whether by design, accident or merely synchronicity, Checkland appears to have developed a habit of writing seminal publications near the start of each decade which establish the basis and framework for systems... -
Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety by Nancy G. Leveson
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £27.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533690Author Nancy G. LevesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 24mm -
Stochastic Differential Equations: An Introduction with Applications by Bernt Oksendal
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.83This edition contains detailed solutions of selected exercises. Many readers have requested this, because it makes the book more suitable for self-study. At the same time new exercises (without solutions) have beed added. They have all been placed in the... -
Ecology and Natural History (Collins New Naturalist Library) by David Wilkinson 9780008293635
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £42.70Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains key ideas of this crucial branch of science, using Britain's ecosystems to illustrate each point. ... -
Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications by Steven D. Eppinger
Booksplease Price: £58.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528887Author Steven D. EppingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 203mm * 17mm -
Networks: A Very Short Introduction by Guido Caldarelli 9780199588077
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.02From ecosystems to Facebook, from the Internet to the global financial market, some of the most important and familiar natural systems and social phenomena are based on a networked structure. It is impossible to understand the spread of an epidemic, a... -
The Special Theory of Relativity by David Bohm 9780415404259
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.59In these inspiring lectures David Bohm explores Albert Einstein's celebrated Theory of Relativity that transformed forever the way we think about time and space. Yet for Bohm the implications of the theory were far more revolutionary both in scope and... -
The Thinking Games for More Effective Communication About Climate Change: 22 Systems Thinking Games That Teach Us How to Seek Solutions and Create Change by Linda Booth-Sweeney 9781603586764
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.43Advocates and teachers often find it difficult to communicate the complexities of climate change, because the people they are trying to reach hold so many mistaken assumptions. They assume, for example, that when climate change becomes an obvious threat... -
Soft Systems Methodology in Action by Peter Checkland
RRP: £50.95Booksplease Price: £44.71Thirty years ago Peter Checkland set out to test whether the Systems Engineering (SE) approach, successful in technical problems, could be used by managers to cope with the unfolding complexities of everyday life. His findings were revealed in Systems... -
Interdependence: Biology and Beyond by Kriti Sharma
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.24From biology to economics to information theory, the theme of interdependence is in the air, framing our experiences of all sorts of everyday phenomena. Indeed, the network may be the ascendant metaphor of our time. Yet precisely because the language of... -
Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences: Chaos, Fractals, Selforganization and Disorder: Concepts and Tools by Didier Sornette 9783540308829
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £57.98Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences, biology and economics in an attempt to understand and model the large... -
Twenty Questions About a Unified Theory of Information: A Short Exploration into Information from a Complex Systems View by Wolfgang Hofkirchner 9780984216475
Booksplease Price: £15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984216475Author Wolfgang HofkirchnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint ISCE PublishingPublisher ISCE PublishingWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 129mm... -
Numerical Optimization by Jorge Nocedal 9781493937110
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.70Numerical Optimization presents a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the most effective methods in continuous optimization. It responds to the growing interest in optimization in engineering, science, and business by focusing on the methods that... -
Adaptive Nonlinear System Identification: The Volterra and Wiener Model Approaches by Tokunbo Ogunfunmi 9780387263281
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £89.15Focuses on System Identification applications of the adaptive methods presented. but which can also be applied to other applications of adaptive nonlinear processes. Covers recent research results in the area of adaptive nonlinear system identification... -
Brownian Motion, Martingales, and Stochastic Calculus by Jean-Francois Le Gall
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £38.07This book offers a rigorous and self-contained presentation of stochastic integration and stochastic calculus within the general framework of continuous semimartingales. The main tools of stochastic calculus, including Ito's formula, the optional... -
Introduction to Partial Differential Equations by Peter J. Olver 9783319020983
Booksplease Price: £45.97This textbook is designed for a one year course covering the fundamentals of partial differential equations, geared towards advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in mathematics, science, engineering, and elsewhere. The exposition... -
Multivariable Feedback Control: Analysis and Design by Sigurd Skogestad
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £43.63"Multivariable Feedback Control: Analysis and Design", Second Edition presents a rigorous, yet easily readable, introduction to the analysis and design of robust multivariable control systems. Focusing on practical feedback control and not on... -
Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley 9780802122285
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.95Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham... -
All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference by Larry Wasserman 9780387402727
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.85Taken literally, the title "All of Statistics" is an exaggeration. But in spirit, the title is apt, as the book does cover a much broader range of topics than a typical introductory book on mathematical statistics. This book is for people who want to... -
Stochastic Methods: A Handbook for the Natural and Social Sciences by Crispin W. Gardiner 9783540707127
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £67.49This fourth edition of Stochastic Methods is thoroughly revised and augmented, and has been completely reset. While keeping to the spirit of the book I wrote originally, I have reorganised the chapters of Fokker-Planck equations and those on appr-... -
Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen by Mark Buchanan 9780609809983
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £14.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609809983Author Mark BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Numerical Optimization by Jorge Nocedal
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £57.35Optimization is an important tool used in decision science and for the analysis of physical systems used in engineering. One can trace its roots to the Calculus of Variations and the work of Euler and Lagrange. This natural and reasonable approach to... -
The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth by Joe Brewer
Booksplease Price: £16.01Humanity is confronted with threats unprecedented in the history of our species. There is an urgent need to describe the "how" for managing the convergent threats of ecological overshoot and civilization collapse. This book offers a clear and cogent... -
How Small Social Systems Work: From Soccer Teams to Jazz Trios and Families by Yair Neuman 9783030822408
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £30.34Most of us are intuitively familiar with small social systems, such as families and soccer teams. Surprisingly, though, most of us are unaware of how complex these systems are or of the fact that they have a unique character distinguishing them from both... -
A First Course in Network Theory by Ernesto Estrada
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £36.04The study of network theory is a highly interdisciplinary field, which has emerged as a major topic of interest in various disciplines ranging from physics and mathematics, to biology and sociology. This book promotes the diverse nature of the study of... -
A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram 9781579550257
Booksplease Price: £23.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579550257Author Stephen WolframFormat PaperbackPage Count 1280Imprint Wolfram MediaPublisher Wolfram MediaWeight(grams) 2177gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 188mm... -
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684868769Author Steven JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)... -
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven Strogatz 9780786868445
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786868445Author Steven StrogatzFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint TheiaPublisher TheiaWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 159mm * 30mm -
Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, and Applications by Brian Wilson
RRP: £58.95Booksplease Price: £51.46"Systems: Concepts, Methodologies and Applications, Second Edition" is brought forward by Brian Wilson Department of Systems and Information Management, Lancaster University, UK. The result of many years' experience, this book, now extensively...