Order out of Chaos

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I »í?n? of the most highly developed skills in contemporarv M Western civilization is dissection: the sptit-up of problems into r'S their smallest possible components. We are good at it So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together j again. , , I " 1' ' •% "llya Prigogine, who won the Nobel Prize in 1977, is not satisfíed, however, with merely taking things apart. He has spent the better part ot a lifetime trying to 'put the pieces together again'-the pieces in this case being biology and physics, necessity and chance, science and í humanity. " . ) "In ORDER OUT OF CHAOS llya Prigogine and his colleague Isabelle | Stengers have given us a landmark-a work thai is contentious and 1 mind-energizing, a book filled with flashing insights that subvert many | I of our most basic assutnptions and suggest fresh ways to thrtnk about J them. V iX . 7 .¦' jJf . ; ;%tftl J [ "ORDER OUT OF CHAOS is a brilliant, demanding, dazzling book-chal-j lenging for all and richly rewarding for... Tovább

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I »í?n? of the most highly developed skills in contemporarv M Western civilization is dissection: the sptit-up of problems into r'S their smallest possible components. We are good at it So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together j again. , , I " 1' ' •% "llya Prigogine, who won the Nobel Prize in 1977, is not satisfíed, however, with merely taking things apart. He has spent the better part ot a lifetime trying to 'put the pieces together again'-the pieces in this case being biology and physics, necessity and chance, science and í humanity. " . ) "In ORDER OUT OF CHAOS llya Prigogine and his colleague Isabelle | Stengers have given us a landmark-a work thai is contentious and 1 mind-energizing, a book filled with flashing insights that subvert many | I of our most basic assutnptions and suggest fresh ways to thrtnk about J them. V iX . 7 .¦' jJf . ; ;%tftl J [ "ORDER OUT OF CHAOS is a brilliant, demanding, dazzling book-chal-j lenging for all and richly rewarding for the attentive reader. It is a book J I v to study, to savor, to reread-and to question yet again. It projects sci-1 I \ enceinto toda/s revolutionary world of instability, disequilibrium, and | V turbulence. In so doing, it serves the highest creative function-ithelps us create fresh order,"-From the Foreword by Alvin Toffler f "Beautifully wrttten...One of the most irjnportant books of our time." -ÍRÖrnart Se>*l,Ő//d pet Wissenschoft ' •'-/ - fJ§| "llya Prigogine, orie of the principal architects of the new systems theöry of lifej gives us a fascinating account of a profound reconceptualization of the physical| v sdences, synthesizing being and becoming into one coherent vision An intriguing and inspiring book for evéryone interested in the leading edge of modern ; science." - Fritjof Capra „ ' "Theianguage is mostly simple and non-technical and yet the discussion is at a| serious and deep level. This book will make an important contribution to the very | transförmations of science that it describes." - Dávid Bohm A 1 ¦: ;?¦ . ¦ ' ; "..¦" ,v /i UK T-: i .. > jfiBK \vH : n BANTAM NEW AGE B(K)KS: A Search for Meaning, Growth and Change Vissza