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Author Capra, Fritjof.

Title The web of life : a new scientific understanding of living systems / Fritjof Capra
Edition First Anchor Books edition
Published New York : Anchor Books, 1996

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Description xv, 347 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Deep Ecology - A New Paradigm -- Ch. 2. From the Parts to the Whole -- Ch. 3. Systems Theories --Ch. 4. The Logic of the Mind -- Ch. 5. Models of Self-Organization -- Ch. 6. The Mathematics of Complexity -- Ch. 7. A New Synthesis -- Ch. 8. Dissipative Structures -- Ch. 9. Self-Making -- Ch. 10. The Unfolding of Life -- Ch. 11. Bringing Forth a World -- Ch. 12. Knowing That We Know -- Epilogue: Ecological Literacy -- Appendix. Bateson Revisited
Summary In this book the author describes interrelationships and interdependence of psychological, biological, physical, social, and cultural phenomena--the "web of life."
Analysis Biological systems
Life (Biology)
System theory
Notes Flamingo edition published under the title : 'The web of life: a new synthesis of mind and matter'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-333) and index
Subject Biological systems.
Life (Biology)
System theory.
LC no. 96012576
ISBN 0385476752
0385476760 (paperback)