My engagement with the Systems perspective seems to date from 1968, and I think developed from my reading of Walter Buckley's Sociology and Modern Systems Theory (1967) which I discovered on Bob Textor's bookshelves. The Whole Earth Catalog and Truck Store provided pointers to several other books, and 'Systems' eclipsed 'Development' as a focus of my interests. Buckley edited Modern Systems Research for the Behavioral Scientist a Sourcebook (1968), the table of contents of which is ...tempting more than 50 years later.
Emergence is an epitome