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Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue With Nature
Order Out of Chaos Man's New Dialogue With Nature Author:Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers, Alvin Toffler "One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split-up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again. — Ilya Prigogine, who won the Nobel Prize in 1977, is not satisfied, however, with merely taking thin... more »gs apart. He has spent the better part of a lifetime trying to 'put the pieces together again'-the pieces in this case being biology and physics, necessity and chance, science and humanity.
In ORDER OUT OF CHAOS Ilya Prigogine and his colleague Isabelle Stengers have given us a landmark-a work that is contentious and mind-energizing, a book filled with flashing insights that subvert many of our most basic assumptions and suggest fresh ways to think about them.
ORDER OUT OF CHAOS is a brilliant, demanding, dazzling book-challenging for all and richly rewarding for the attentive reader. It is a book to study, to savor, to reread-and to question yet again. It projects science into today's revolutionary world of instability, disequilibrium, and turbulence. In so doing, it serves the highest creative function-it helps us create fresh order." --From the Foreward by Alvin Toffler« less