Fritjof Capra, bestselling author of The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life, here explores another frontier in the human significance of scientific ideas—applying complexity theory to large-scale social interaction. In the 1980s, complexity theory emerged as a powerful alternative to classic, linear thought. A forerunner of that revolution, Fritjof Capra now continues to expand the scope of that theory by establishing a framework in which we can understand and solve some of the most important issues of our time. Capra posits that in order to sustain life, the principles underlying our social institutions must be consistent with the broader organization of nature. Discussing pertinent contemporary issues ranging from the controversial practices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to the Human Genome Project, he concludes with an authoritative, often provocative plan for designing ecologically sustainable communities and technologies as alternatives to the current economic globalization.

The Hidden Connections : A Science for Sustainable Living

Business & Money

FRITJOF CAPRA

Economics

HARPER/COLLINS

The universe: an eternal cosmic dance of subatomic particles of relationships at once paradoxical, yet somehow unified. Mystics explore our universe through meditation. Nuclear physicists explore it through experimentation and hypothesis. Their paths to the truth could not be more different-but the amazing thing is that in their own ways, the mystics and the scientists are discovering the same truths about our world. In non-technical language, with no complex mathematics or formulae, this thought-provoking program explores the main concepts and theories of modern physics, the revelations coming from particle accelerators and laboratories-and compares them with the ancient tenets of Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. In the process, we gain a clear and fascinating picture of how such seemingly disparate areas of thought are ultimately quests for the same kind of understanding.

The Tao of Physics (Flamingo)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Flamingo

THE HIDDEN CONNECTIONS: A SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING

HARPERCOLLINS PUB.

Now in paperback--a remarkably compatible new view of the universe offered by the trailblazer of new science and a contemporary of Thomas Merton. "An entertaining, thought-provoking book filled with conversations, quotations, and colorful stories that make science and theology come alive."--San Francisco Chronicle. Winner of the American Book Award.

Belonging to The Universe

Religion & Spirituality

Penguin??Books

The photograph is correct. This Pictorial Softcover is dated 1975. has 330 Clean Pages, dedicated on the first page. This Book is Near New. I listed it as very Good because of a tiny corner crease on the back cover.

The Tao of Physics

Shambala

Examines the rise of West Germany's Green Party and discusses the impact of the Greens on European political culture and their relevance to America's future

Green Politics

Charlene Spretnak

Politics & Government

Dutton Adult

The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism is a book by physicist Fritjof Capra, published in 1975 by Shambhala Publications of Berkeley, California. It was a bestseller in the United States, and has been published in 43 editions in 23 languages. The fourth edition in English was published in 2000.

Bantam]

Bestseller reconciling Eastern philosophy and western science in a humanistic vision of the universe.

The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism

BANTAM BOOKS

systems view of life, the: a unifying vision

Harper-Collins India

Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician, architect, inventor, and even musician—the archetypal Renaissance man. But he was also a profoundly modern man. Not only did Leonardo invent the empirical scientific method over a century before Galileo and Francis Bacon, but Capra’s decade-long study of Leonardo’s fabled notebooks reveals that he was a systems thinker centuries before the term was coined. At the very core of Leonardo’s science, Capra argues, lies his persistent quest for understanding the nature of life. His science is a science of living forms, of qualities and patterns, radically different from the mechanistic science that emerged 200 years later. Because he saw the world as an integrated whole, Leonardo always applied concepts from one area to illuminate problems in another. His studies of the movement of water informed his ideas about how landscapes are shaped, how sap rises in plants, how air moves over a bird’s wing, and how blood flows in the human body. His observations of nature enhanced his art, his drawings were integral to his scientific studies, and he brought art, science, and technology together in his beautiful and elegant mechanical and architectural designs. Capra describes seven defining characteristics of Leonardo da Vinci’s genius and includes a list of over forty discoveries he made that weren’t rediscovered until centuries later. Capra follows the organizational scheme Leonardo himself intended to use if he ever published his notebooks. So in a sense, this is Leonardo’s science as he himself would have presented it. Obviously, we can’t all be geniuses on the scale of Leonardo da Vinci. But his persistent endeavor to put life at the very center of his art, science, and design and his recognition that all natural phenomena are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent are important lessons we can learn from. By exploring the mind of the preeminent Renaissance genius, we can gain profound insights into how to address the complex challenges of the 21st century.

Learning from Leonardo: Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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The Hidden Connections : A Science for Sustainable Living

The Tao of Physics (Flamingo)

The Hidden Connections : A Science for Sustainable Living

Belonging to The Universe

The Tao of Physics

Green Politics

The Tao of Physics

The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism

systems view of life, the: a unifying vision

Learning from Leonardo: Decoding the Notebooks of a Genius