Stuart Kauffman’s At Home in the Universe is out in paperback (Penguin,
£8.99, ISBN 0 14 017414 1). “The conceptual versatility displayed is
enormous,” wrote Brian Goodwin when he reviewed the hardback (2 December). One
for keeping and giving, it will help you to unravel the complexities of
complexity theory.
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