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SYNC: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
by Steven H. Strogatz
from Hyperion
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Great read 
Nutshell review - This is a great read, eloquently written and provides a very exciting, layman's overview of the fascinating world of order, chaos and synchronization - where it comes from and how it plays a role in our life and our world. Strogatz is one of the original researchers into this interesting field and gives us lots of food for thought! Excellent.
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not great... 
It covers a lot of topics and some of them are entertaining. But seems unfocused and hard to get a big picture.
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A disappointment
Author Steve Strogatz's book "Sync" ostensibly concerns the spontaneous synchronization of oscillators, where an "oscillator" is anything that exhibits periodic behavior -- be it a clock, a flashing firefly, or an electron in a superconductor.
The book is clearly modeled on James Gleick's book "Chaos": both books follow various researchers who originally work in isolation but who gradually recognize that they are investigating different aspects of the same phenomenon. As Gleick did for chaos, Strogatz... more info
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Resonance
What I found most interesting about Strogatz's sync theory was the position that it did not require an extensive measure of complexity in order to achieve synchronization. It merely required a critical mass or critical repetition in order to effectuate a phase transformation. The phenomenon of resonance performs similarly. Synchronization may be a form of resonance which has been overlooked, thus far, in our reality (biosphere).
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