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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Prigogine, Ilya. Order Out of Chaos : Man's New Dialogue with Nature. La Vergne : Verso, ©2017 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ilya Prigogine |
ISBN: | 9781786631015 1786631016 |
OCLC Number: | 1019653939 |
Description: | 1 online resource (253 pages) |
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A passionate meditation on Man and Universe -- Italo Calvino A book filled with flashing insights that subvertmany of our most basic assumptions and suggest fresh ways to think about them.brilliant, demanding, dazzling -- Alvin Toffler An astonishingly ambitious and wide-ranging bookwhich reaches deep not only into physical and chemical theory, but also intothe history and philosophy of science * Observer * This is an ambitious book which suggests that a new picture of the universe is emerging from the study of thermodynamics, and that this picture will heal the breach between the scientific and the poetic view of man. -- John Maynard Smith * London Review of Books * (in praise of The End of Certainty) Prigogine is a pioneer of chaos and self-organization theory, and his vision is as revolutionary and fundamental as Darwin's. -- Oliver Sacks Read more...

