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The web of life : a new scientific understanding of living systems / Fritjof Capra.
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.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-333) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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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| Subject: | Life (Biology) Biological systems. System theory. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Columbia Gorge Community College Library | BIOLOGY CAPRA 1996 (Text) | 39705000016252 | Main Collection | Available | - |
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