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The web of life : a new scientific understanding of living systems / Fritjof Capra.

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In his international bestsellers "The Tao of Physics" and "The Turning Point", Fritjof Capra justaposed physics and mysticism to define a new vision of reality. Now, in "The Web of Life", he takes yet another giant step forward, offering a brilliant systhesis of such recent scientific breakthroughs as the theory of complexity, Gaia theory, and chaos theory.

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ISBN: 0385476760
ISBN: 9780385476768
Physical Description: xix, 347 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: First Anchor Books trade paperback edition.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Anchor Books, 1997.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-333) and index.

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Cultural context: Deep ecology-New paradigm -- Rise of systems thinking: From the parts to the whole -- Systems theories -- Logic of the mind -- Pieces of the puzzle: Models of self-organization -- Mathematics of complexity -- Nature of life: New synthesis -- Dissipative structures -- Self-making -- Unfolding of life -- Bringing forth a world -- Knowing that we know -- Epilogue: Ecological literacy -- Appendix: Bateson revisited.

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Biological systems.
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