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A semi-random collection of book references which I've either read and liked, read and remember for some odd reason, are currently reading or for one reason or another I'd recommend.
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<Complex Networks and Systems>

General (not so technical) Books
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age - Duncan J. Watts.
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means - Albert Lazlo-Barabasi.
How nature works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality - Per Bak.
The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution - Stuart Kauffman.
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order - Steven Strogatz.

<General Stuff>

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History - Stephen Jay Gould.
Against The Gods: The Remarkable Story Of Risk - Peter L. Bernstein.
Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy (Economics, Cognition, and Society) - W. Brian Arthur.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales - Oliver W. Sacks.

<Information Visualization>

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward R. Tufte.
Envisioning Information - Edward R. Tufte.
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative - Edward R. Tufte.
Information Visualization - Robert Spence.

<Philosophy and Philosophy Of Mind>

discipline and punish: the birth of prison - michel foucault.
brainchildren : essays on designing minds, 1984-1996 - daniel c. dennett.
the nature of consciousness: philosophical debates - ned j. block, owen flanagan and guven guzeldere.