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The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Paperback or Softback)
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- 9781316616437
- ISBN
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- Book Title
- The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
- Subject Area
- Science
- Publication Name
- Systems View of Life : a Unifying Vision
- Item Length
- 9.7 in
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Subject
- Philosophy & Social Aspects, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Width
- 6.9 in
- Item Weight
- 35 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 510 Pages
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Taking a broad sweep through history and across scientific disciplines, this volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework. Life's biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions are presented and its philosophical, spiritual, and political implications discussed.
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1316616436
ISBN-13
9781316616437
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221649396
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Systems View of Life : a Unifying Vision
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Philosophy & Social Aspects, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Science
Number of Pages
510 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
6.9 in
Item Weight
35 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2013-034908
Lc Classification Number
Q175.C2455 2016
Reviews
"A magisterial study of the scientific basis for an integrated worldview grounded in the wholeness that generations of one-eyed reductionists could not see. The authors succeed brilliantly!" David W. Orr, Oberlin College, "... gives us a sound synthesis of the best science and theory on the connectedness of all living things, the dynamics of emergence and self-organization as conceived by Francisco Varela. This volume offers a profound framework for understanding our place on the planet, for better or worse. And if we apply the insights offered by Capra and Luisi, it will be for the better ... should be required reading for today's young, tomorrow's leaders, and anyone who cares about life on this planet." Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and Ecological Intelligence, "What is life? What is a human being? How can new discoveries about nature and ourselves keep us from becoming the first self-endangered species? Capra and Luisi's dazzling synthesis explains how moving beyond mechanistic, linear, reductionist habits is revealing startling new answers to perennial questions of philosophy and practice. Sir Francis Bacon's goal of 'the enlargement of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible' has put humanity in serious trouble. But today, rebuilding our thinking, language, and actions around Darwin, not Descartes, and around modern biology, not outmoded physics, creates rich new options. Driven by the co-evolution of business with civil society, these can build a fairer, healthier, cooler, safer world. The Systems View of Life is a lucid, wide-ranging guide to living maturely, kindly, and durably with each other and with other beings on the only home we have." Amory B. Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
Table of Content
Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: paradigms in science and society; Part I. The Mechanistic World View: 1. The Newtonian world-machine; 2. The mechanistic view of life; 3. Mechanistic social thought; Part II. The Rise of Systems Thinking: 4. From the parts to the whole; 5. Classical systems theories; 6. Complexity theory; Part III. A New Conception of Life: 7. What is life?; 8. Order and complexity in the living world; 9. Darwin and biological evolution; 10. The quest for the origin of life on Earth; 11. The human adventure; 12. Mind and consciousness; 13. Science and spirituality; 14. Life, mind, and society; 15. The systems view of health; Part IV. Sustaining the Web of Life: 16. The ecological dimension of life; 17. Connecting the dots: systems thinking and the state of the world; 18. Systemic solutions; Bibliography; Index.
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
304.201
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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