<p>This book is about the liberation of the concept of life from the bondage fashioned by the interpreters of life ever since biology began, and about the liberation of the life of humans and non-humans alike from the bondage of social structures and behaviour, which now threatens the fullness of life's possibilities if not survival itself. It falls into a tradition of writings about human problems from a perspective informed by biology. It rejects the mechanistic model of life dominant in the Western world and develops an alternative 'ecological model' which is applicable to the life of the cell and the life of the human community. For the first time it brings together in one work the insights of modern biology with those of a modern holistic philosophy and a liberal theology in a way which challenges conventional approaches to science, agriculture, sociology, politics, economics, development and liberation movements.</p>

The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community

Politics & Social Sciences

Cobb, John B.

Birch, Charles

Social Sciences

Cambridge University Press

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Regaining Compassion: For Humanity and Nature

Philosophy

University of New South Wales Press

Charles Birch's proposition is that feelings cannot be reduced to physics and chemistry, yet are as real as physics and chemistry. He raises the questions of feelings, not only in humans, but in all living creatures, including the claims of some that computers may have feelings.

Feelings

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

<p>To get soaring profits we need to work longer and harder.  Right?  Wrong.  With an original look at the lives of employees, managers, executives and CEO's, the authors propose a new agenda for a work/life balance, stressing that if you get relationships with employees and customers right profits follow as a matter of course. </p>

Life and Work: Challenging Economic Man

Business & Money

David, Paul

Business Culture

Biology and the Riddle of Life

Charles Birch considers fundamental questions about Life and the relationship between science and religion. Questions such as: What is Life? What does it mean to be alive? Is God necessary? Birch shows that viewing the world as a realm of experience rather than as a collection of objects allows one to come to a naturalistic understanding of God which is very different from traditional religious notions.

A Purpose for Everything: Religion in a Postmodern Worldview

Religion & Spirituality

Twenty Third Pubns

Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community

Univ of North Texas

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