Mitchell's book #3 on Amazon's "10 Best Science Books of 2009".

Melanie Mitchell's latest book, "Complexity: A Guided Tour" has been ranked third on Amazon's "10 Best Science Books of 2009" list.

From Amazon review: "What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of individual neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? What is it that guides self-organizing structures like the immune system, the World Wide Web, the global economy, and the human genome? These are just a few of the fascinating and elusive questions that the science of complexity seeks to answer."