Systems Science

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....

What if humanity’s next stage of evolution wasn’t discovered…But engineered? Elliot Voss spent decades pursuing a singular vision. Until he found a way to rewrite the rules of life itself.

Gary doesn’t have all that much going for him. He’s a teenage boy who lives in a Tier-3 town that’s barely hanging on, and his family’s just a rung above dirt poor. Which is why he’s taken the very dangerous step of becoming an errand boy for the savage Underdogs gang. He doesn’t like what they do, but if he tries to get out, he’s pretty sure he’ll get very dead.

Corporate flameout Ned Altimer dreams of leaving his world behind. So, when Earthblood Online splashes onto the VRMMO scene, he dives in and never looks back. His advantages are twofold: exclusive access to the game’s three-day Head Start period, and a ridiculously handsome talking axe named Frank who has knowledge of the game’s deepest secrets...if the magnificent Frank ever feels like sharing them.

During the first Apocalypse, the System Lords forgot one tiny detail—they left William Ward out. While everyone else got classes and powers, he kept doing what he does best: working in the shadows as a legendary hitman. When he finally retires, living quietly with his disabled dog Max, the System Lords decide to meddle again. After turning Earth into a complete hellhole, they hit reset on the Apocalypse, only this time, William is added to the System.

Step into the vast imagination of classic speculative storytelling with The Pioneers of Science Fiction, a powerful anthology featuring some of the most influential voices in the genre’s history. This carefully curated collection brings together visionary works from Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert Sheckley, Murray Leinster, and H. G. Wells—authors who shaped modern science fiction and forever changed the way we imagine the future.

In the future: A united Earth, to deal with the problem of population control, divides its population into classes of citizen and non-gratis. To be born a non-gratis means a life of little freedoms and the constant possibility of being assigned to work on a colony. Lacking citizenship, every aspect of their life is controlled from where they live down to marriage and childbearing regulations. The only possible escape from life as a non-gratis is to qualify for one of the limited slots available for entrance into the military. 

Saga fell asleep one night in the middle of a raid to find herself stuck in a game. However this isn't your usual story of the Player finding themselves the Hero of a new story. Beaten, locked in chains and drained of her health and mana, she becomes one of thousands of players kidnapped and locked up to feed a city that runs on their life forces. The Players are not heroes here, they are a calamity housed and used as batteries. When Saga breaks free and causes a system feedback loop that frees dozens of other Players, she starts something, a revolution she never planned to lead.

Leonidas Paendrag spent five years in another world to defeat the Demon Lord and his literal armies of Hell, only for the final battle to unexpectedly send him back to Earth. Denied the rest he desperately wanted, he is instead thrust into a world of emerging fantasy races, warring human factions, and a dysfunctional family more intent on killing each other than the monsters roaming the planet.

There are many books about systems, but a few about using systems concepts and methods in social systems realm. Some books are pure and technical and some other are ‘long storytelling’ with systems thinking skills ‘buried’ in the amazing puzzles! While systems science implies ‘polyphony’ in its nature, but in practice, there is ‘monophony’ in using it with titles dedicated to specific fields such as business. Texts written by the systems theory pioneers, emphasize on some ‘key points’ which are not present in the texts in social systems realm. Social systems texts are ...

The world doesn’t end with fire. It ends with a notification you can feel in your bones. Alec West was just trying to keep a remote communications relay alive when reality stutters—then rewrites itself. The sky fractures into a vast geometric lattice. The ground splits with impossible blue-white seams. And a force racing across the mountains—the First Wave—turns ordinary rules into a new kind of math.

They Thought Wrong. Bob Arnold was part of testing ancient technology that does not function correctly. After a decade, it is disposed of—but the damage is already done. The device pings a new alien civilization and brings it to Earth, along with a newer version of the System and its capabilities. They are not here to negotiate or understand. They are here to divide and conquer through a false evaluation and tutorial. Except they make a blunder in their assumptions. Humanity is not separated from the Galactic System because it is weak or primitive.

Luke was an ordinary Earth gamer until he woke up in the body of a fallen noble, surrounded by traitors and facing a blade to his throat. With his father murdered and his birthright stolen, he has only two things left: a lethally loyal butler and the Sovereign System. This isn't a typical RPG cheat code. The System is cold, demanding, and carries a brutal ultimatum: achieve dominance, or face immediate removal and certain death.

You're not manifesting wrong—your body is broadcasting a different frequency than your mind. After two decades of research and working with thousands of clients, this groundbreaking second edition reveals why traditional manifestation fails—and what actually works. The problem isn't your vision board. It's that your conscious desires represent only 5% of your manifestation power. The other 95% lives in your body—in your nervous system, your cellular memory, your somatic frequency. You can affirm abundance while your body broadcasts scarcity. You can visualize success while your cells ...

For Fool and Jackal, the System Apocalypse was a chance to start again. A chance to rise, and be who they were meant to be. Now, they're trying to offer others the same opportunities as part of a secret organization helping humanity survive the System. Today's mission? Nothing big, just your typical save-the-princess quest. But when you're the Acolyte of a Trickster god, typical is the last thing you should expect. Just ask Fool's cat.

Cal Bennett runs on one rule: Never stay in one place longer than eleven days. It's not paranoia—it's math. Ever since he struck Softbiotics, he's been a marked man. Their enforcers don't negotiate. They don't quit. And they're always one jump behind. His only edge is Byte, a cutting-edge AI...

The market doesn’t care what you believe. It only responds to what actually works. Most traders spend years searching for the right indicator, the perfect setup, or the strategy that will finally remove uncertainty from trading. But markets don’t reward certainty. They reward decisions built on evidence. How to Trade Like a Scientist shows you how to apply the same principles scientists use to test ideas, evaluate evidence, and improve their understanding of the world to the process of trading. You’ll learn how to: Turn trading ideas into specific, testable hypotheses Separate real ...

What would happen in a world governed by the Ascendants, the highest level people in the System, when the System itself resets due to the death of its creator? When the levels, classes, skills, and even Legendary Feats of every user are wiped, and everyone is sent to a new dimension to start all over again?

Glitches are appearing across the Minecraft server. Blocks are flickering unexpectedly and randomly disappearing. To make matters worse, villagers are claiming that their entire villages have mysteriously vanished, and they desperately need Gameknight999's help. What's causing the server to overload and glitch, and where have all the NPCs gone? The User-that-is-not-a-user suspects the two questions are related, and that somehow Herobrine's henchmen are responsible.

The world didn't end. It just leveled up in this epic LitRPG adventure. Fourteen-year-old Caden Taylor was more worried about his grades than his stats. But that was before the universe hit the reset button. Now, the world he knew is gone, replaced by a new reality governed by a game-like System. With stats, skills, and quests, it's the ultimate Gamelit challenge where survival is the only goal. When the timer hits zero, the world he knew is deleted.