Author: George V. Coyne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782830907421
Category : Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Origins, Time and Complexity: Complexity and Self-organization. Time and non-locality. Complexity, organization, information. Time and eternity. The kindling of the divine flame. Complexity and western thought. Individuality and flux. Origins, time and complexity
Author: George V. Coyne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782830907421
Category : Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782830907421
Category : Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Origins, Time, and Complexity
Author: George V. Coyne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782830907421
Category : Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782830907421
Category : Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Plato's Pigs and Other Ruminations
Author: M. D. Usher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108879411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Greeks and Romans have been charged with destroying the ecosystems within which they lived. In this book, however, M. D. Usher argues rather that we can find in their lives and thought the origin of modern ideas about systems and sustainability, important topics for humans today and in the future. With chapters running the gamut of Greek and Roman experience – from the Presocratics and Plato to Roman agronomy and the Benedictine Rule – Plato's Pigs brings together unlikely bedfellows, both ancient and modern, to reveal surprising connections. Lively prose and liberal use of anecdotal detail, including an afterword about the author's own experiments with sustainable living on his sheep farm in Vermont, add a strong authorial voice. In short, this is a unique, first-of-its-kind book that is sure to be of interest to anyone working in Classics, environmental studies, philosophy, ecology, or the history of ideas.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108879411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Greeks and Romans have been charged with destroying the ecosystems within which they lived. In this book, however, M. D. Usher argues rather that we can find in their lives and thought the origin of modern ideas about systems and sustainability, important topics for humans today and in the future. With chapters running the gamut of Greek and Roman experience – from the Presocratics and Plato to Roman agronomy and the Benedictine Rule – Plato's Pigs brings together unlikely bedfellows, both ancient and modern, to reveal surprising connections. Lively prose and liberal use of anecdotal detail, including an afterword about the author's own experiments with sustainable living on his sheep farm in Vermont, add a strong authorial voice. In short, this is a unique, first-of-its-kind book that is sure to be of interest to anyone working in Classics, environmental studies, philosophy, ecology, or the history of ideas.
Seeing Like a State
Author: James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
The Postnormal Times Reader
Author: Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
ISBN: 1642052442
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
<p>We live in a period of accelerating change. New trends, technologies and crisis emerge rapidly and transform familiar social and political landscapes. Established and cherished ideals, with deep historical roots, can be overturned overnight. Unconventional and uncommon notions and events can appear as though from nowhere, proliferate, and become dominant. The last few years alone have witnessed the emergence of populism and the far right in Europe and the US, Brexit, cracks in the European Union, cyber wars accompanied by the re-emergence of a cold war. China as an increasingly dominant new superpower. Pandemics like the Ebola and Zika viruses. Climate change leading to extreme weather events. Driverless cars. AI. ‘Fake News’. ‘Alternative Facts’. ‘Post-Truth’. ‘Disruptive technologies’ that disrupt and often corrupt everything. Everything seems to be in a state of flux, nothing can be trusted. All that we regard as normal is melting away right before us.</p><p><br></p><p>The postnormal times theory attempts to make sense of a rapidly changing world, where uncertainty is the dominant theme and ignorance has become a valuable commodity. <em>The Postnormal Times Reader</em> is a pioneering anthology of writings on the contradictory, complex and chaotic nature of our era. It covers the origins, theory and methods of postnormal times; and examines a host of issues, ranging from climate change, governance, Middle East to religion and science, from the perspective of postnormal times. By mapping some of the key local and global issues of our transitional age, the Reader suggests a way of navigating our turbulent futures.</p>
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
ISBN: 1642052442
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
<p>We live in a period of accelerating change. New trends, technologies and crisis emerge rapidly and transform familiar social and political landscapes. Established and cherished ideals, with deep historical roots, can be overturned overnight. Unconventional and uncommon notions and events can appear as though from nowhere, proliferate, and become dominant. The last few years alone have witnessed the emergence of populism and the far right in Europe and the US, Brexit, cracks in the European Union, cyber wars accompanied by the re-emergence of a cold war. China as an increasingly dominant new superpower. Pandemics like the Ebola and Zika viruses. Climate change leading to extreme weather events. Driverless cars. AI. ‘Fake News’. ‘Alternative Facts’. ‘Post-Truth’. ‘Disruptive technologies’ that disrupt and often corrupt everything. Everything seems to be in a state of flux, nothing can be trusted. All that we regard as normal is melting away right before us.</p><p><br></p><p>The postnormal times theory attempts to make sense of a rapidly changing world, where uncertainty is the dominant theme and ignorance has become a valuable commodity. <em>The Postnormal Times Reader</em> is a pioneering anthology of writings on the contradictory, complex and chaotic nature of our era. It covers the origins, theory and methods of postnormal times; and examines a host of issues, ranging from climate change, governance, Middle East to religion and science, from the perspective of postnormal times. By mapping some of the key local and global issues of our transitional age, the Reader suggests a way of navigating our turbulent futures.</p>
The Conduct of Life
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Strategy Without Design
Author: Robert C. H. Chia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521895502
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A unique analysis of strategy in organizations that shows how successful strategies may result without planning or design.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521895502
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A unique analysis of strategy in organizations that shows how successful strategies may result without planning or design.
Undoing the Demos
Author: Wendy Brown
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1935408534
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This is a book for the age of resistance, for the occupiers of the squares, for the generation of Occupy Wall Street. The premier radical political philosopher of our time offers a devastating critique of the way neoliberalism has hollowed out democracy.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1935408534
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This is a book for the age of resistance, for the occupiers of the squares, for the generation of Occupy Wall Street. The premier radical political philosopher of our time offers a devastating critique of the way neoliberalism has hollowed out democracy.
Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields
Author: Donna Jeanne Haraway
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556434747
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change into this wide-ranging analysis, emphasizing the role of model, analogy, and metaphor in the paradigm and arguing that any truly useful theoretical system in biology must have a central metaphor.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556434747
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change into this wide-ranging analysis, emphasizing the role of model, analogy, and metaphor in the paradigm and arguing that any truly useful theoretical system in biology must have a central metaphor.
Star Maker
Author: Olaf Stapledon
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819566934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Science fiction-roman.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819566934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Science fiction-roman.