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Featured Science AuthorFeatured Author: Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson, the bestselling author of seven books, including Everything Bad Is Good for You, is back with Future Perfect, a new book about the way human and technological networks can solve complex social problems. The founder of a variety of influential websites -- most recently, outside.in -- he also writes for Time, Wired, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Below are some of his favorite books on the exploding new science of networks.
Albert-László Barabási's Linked and Duncan Watts's Six Degrees, both published roughly ten years ago, remain the two best introductions to network theory. (Some readers will have encountered some of the concepts they explore in Malcolm Gladwell's mega-bestseller The Tipping Point.) Buy Now
Wilson's latest is a fascinating argument for the power of group selection in the evolutionary history of human beings and the social insects. But perhaps more than that, it's a revealing first-person study of a great scientist changing his mind about an important theory. Buy Now
A perfect companion to The Social Conquest of Earth, with spectacular images that document the extraordinary communities of the social insects. Buy Now
Rheingold's delightful tour through the new modes of connection is as much about the technology and sociology of networks as it is about the science. The book has only grown more essential since it was published, as social networking has exploded as a core form of global communication. Buy Now
Wright's account of the long evolutionary and cultural history of exchanges where all parties win (as opposed to zero-sum games where there has to be a winner and a loser) has reverberated in my mind for more than a decade. It's one of those books that takes you effortlessly from jellyfish to the first human civilizations to the Internet -- and charts the shared qualities that connect those different realms. Buy Now
