Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (Universita degli Studi Roma Tre)

Gebundenes Buch

The Systems View of Life

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Fritjof Capra, PhD, is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. He is a fellow of Schumacher College in England and serves on the council of Earth Charter International. He frequently gives management seminars for top executives. Capra is the author or coauthor of over ten books, including The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life. Ugo Mattei is the Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law and a professor of civil law at the University of Turin, Italy. He is active in the European Commons movement and has written academic articles and media commentary translated into many languages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 514
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1138g
• ISBN-13: 9781107011366
• ISBN-10: 1107011361
• Artikelnr.: 39632278

Rezensionen

'Partly an enjoyable survey of exciting new developments in systems biology, valuable to any student of biology or science, and partly a bold blueprint for how we might preserve our future on Earth.' New Scientist