"Emergence: from chaos to order" by John H Holland

This is a worthy book. It is an academic book. It contains the intricate details of mathematics and algorithms. And at the same tine it attempts to be a general and genial introduction to the network science written by one of the earliest workers in the field.

A good book but not an exciting book. Some interesting concepts but it didn't hook me as much as the other similar treatises I have read over the last few years:

• Six Degrees
• Smart swarm
• And others such as Complexity, and the classic Critical Mass by Philip Ball.

But probably Emergence is the one to quote when I wirte my textbook.

September 2011; 248 pages