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Dear Colleague

I'm pleased to inform you that the latest issue of the international journal Emergence: Complexity & Organization (E:CO - http://emergence.org) is now available.  The latest issue (Volume 8 Issue 1) is a special issue on Complexity and Innovation and is guest edited by Ysanne Carlisle and Elizabeth McMillan of the Open University in the UK.  The special issue contains:

Special Issue Papers

Innovation in Organizations from a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
Ysanne Carlisle & Elizabeth McMillan

Preliminary Theoretical Framework for the Study of Business Ecosystems
Mirva Peltoniemi

A Framework for Knowledge Innovation
Mariana van der Walt

Facilitating Learning and Innovation in Organizations Using Complexity Science Principles
Carol Webb, Fiona Lettice & Mark Lemon

Innovations in the Dutch Polder: Communities of Practice and the Challenges of Coevolution
Arwin van Buuren & Jurian Edelenbos

Complexity and Philosophy

Complexity Theory and Continental Philosophy 2: A Hermeneutical Theory of Complexity
Stephen Sheard

Classic Paper

The Philosophic Functions of Emergence (originally published in 1929)
Charles A. Baylis (with an introduction by Jeffrey A. Goldstein)

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Editorial Comment
Pedro Sotolongo

Stories from the Frontier
David Snowden

Adjacent Opportunities
Ron M. Schultz

If you already have a current subscription to Volume 8 then you can access it online using your personal username and password.  Your print issues will be mailed out in a couple of weeks time.

If you do not have a current subscription and would like to receive Volume 8 of E:CO as well as have e-access to Volumes 1 thru 7 then please visit http://isce.edu/ECO_Ind/ to securely place your individual subscription order.  A library recommendation form is attached if you think that your institutional library might benefit from a subscription to E:CO.

Please note that if you subscribed to Volume 7 your last print issue (the special double issue on Complexity and Storytelling) was sent last week and should be with you shortly.  Your online access to Volumes 1-7 will be valid until the end of June (2006).

I'd also like to take this opportunity to let you know of two new 'complexity' books which will be available at the end of April.  The first is the second edition of Volume 6 of the Emergence, Complexity & Organization book series (ISBN 0976681455) which includes articles from Isabelle Stengers, Julie Klein, Sandra D. Mitchell, Glenda Eoyang, Bill McKelvey, William Sulis and many more, which explore a range of complexity-related topics from philosophical concerns through to the practical application of complexity ideas, concepts and frameworks in human organizations. Also included are a series of four reproductions of classical papers in the fields of complexity and systems: "Principles of Self-Organizing Systems" by Ross Ashby (originally published in 1962) "General Systems Theory: The Skeleton of Science" by Kenneth Boulding (originally published in 1956) "Science and Complexity" by Warren Weaver (originally published in 1948) "Emergence" by Stephen C. Pepper (originally published in 1926).  This second edition has been completely repackaged with a new comprehensive index included.  It contains 542 pages.  A full list of contents is available here.

The second book is Volume 7 (ISBN 0976681439) of the same series which includes articles from Max Boisot, Ken Baskin, Robert E. Ulanowicz, Heather Höpfl, Victoria Alexander, and many more. Also included are a series of four reproductions of classical papers in the fields of complexity and systems: "Futurology and the Future of Systems Analysis" by Ida R. Hoos (originally published in 1972), "A Form of Logic Suited for Biology" by Walter M. Elsasser (originally published in 1981), "Beyond Open Systems Models of Organization" by Louis R. Pondy (originally unpublished conference paper from 1976) and "The Architecture of Complexity" by Herbert A. Simon (originally published in 1962). It contains 592 pages.  A full list of contents is available here.

Both volumes will be available through Amazon for US$114.99 (Volume 6 is available for pre-order through Amazon here), but if you pre-order through ISCE Publishing both books are available for $65.99 each.

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