Recommended books

The lectures will follow closely the book Complexity and Criticality by Christensen and Moloney. No other reference book is needed. However, for completeness, please find a short list of other relevant books. The first book listed below will cover most of the concepts related to percolation. The following two books are introductions to phase transitions and the concept of universality and they will basically cover everything given in the lectures related to the Ising model. The last two books are references on complexity and self-organised criticality. The book by Jensen is more technical than the book by Bak.