2007/10/02 New Complexity Books from ICSE

From:  ISCE Publishing <kurt@isce.edu>

   

Dear colleague

I am writing today to let you know about the latest 'complexity' publications from ISCE Publishing.  This week four new titles are being released:

1. Complex Systems Leadership Theory: New Perspectives from Complexity Science on Social and Organizational Effectiveness - Edited by James K. Hazy, Jeffrey A. Goldstein and Benyamin B. Lichtenstein - 550pp + index - ISBN 978-0-9791688-6-4. Click here for detailed contents, editorial and comprehensive index; and here to order with a 20% discount;

2. Thinking Complexity: Complexity and Philosophy Volume 1 - Edited by Paul Cilliers - 250pp + index - ISBN 978-0-9791688-7-1. Click here for for detailed contents, editorial and comprehensive index;  and here to order with a 20% discount;

3. Sustaining Our Social and Natural Capital: Proceedings of the 12th ANZSYS Conference - Edited by Roger Attwater & John Merson - 576pp - ISBN 978-0-9791688-8-8. Click here for detailed contents and editorial; and here to order with a 20% discount;

4. New issue of the international peer-reviewed journal Emergence: Complexity & Organization (Issue 9.3). Current subscribers can download the current issue from here. The print version will be sent out to subscribers who have requested the complementary print version will be sent out in a couple of weeks time. To order a subscription to Volume 9 of E:CO please visit here. Issue 9.3 includes:

Editorial: The Complexity of Change and Adaptation
Peter Allen

General Papers
Academic

Understanding Change in Organizations in a Far-from-Equilibrium World
Bob Hodge & Gabriela Coronado

The Dark Side of Knowledge
David Seidl

Practitioner

Assessing Organizational Capacity to Adapt
Eleanor D. Glor

Complexity Science Conflict Analysis of Power and Protest
L. Deborah Sword

Complexity and Philosophy

Approaching “Complexity” in Anthropology and Complexity Studies: The Principles of Socio-Political Organization and the Prospects for Bridging the Interdisciplinary Gap
Dmitri M. Bondarenko

Classic Complexity
The Philosophy of the Present
George Herbert Mead (with an introduction by Jeffrey A. Goldstein)

Forum
Rolling Complex Rocks Up Social Service Hills: A Personal Commentary
Michael Agar

Adjacent Opportunities: Ordinary Magic
Ron Schultz

Book Reviews
A Review of “Socioeconomic Democracy: An Advanced Socioeconomic system”
William P. Hall

A Review of “Complexity in World Politics: Concepts and Methods of a New Paradigm”
Ken Baskin

If you have any questions concerning ISCE Publishing's new or existing titles please contact Kurt Richardson at kurt@isce.edu.

Kindest regards,

Kurt A. Richardson
Director, ISCE Publishing