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Is Future Given? by Ilya Prigogine
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $62.08In this book, after discussing the fundamental problems of current science and other philosophic concepts, beginning with controversies between Heraclitus and Parmenides, Ilya Prigogine launches into... -
Tan Solo Una Ilusion? by Ilya Prigogine 9788472236110
Booksplease Price: $51.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788472236110Author Ilya PrigogineFormat PaperbackImprint TusQuetsPublisher TusQuets -
Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Fluids and Plasmas by Ilya Prigogine 9780883189238
Booksplease Price: $190.81Market: Students and researchers in chaos, plasma physics, and fluid transport. This superb collection of invited papers offers an excellent overview of the current status and future trends in... -
The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos and the New Laws of Nature by Ilya Prigogine
Booksplease Price: $38.30The Nobel laureate and founder of chaos theory challenges the accepted laws of nature, explaining why Einstein's belief that time is merely an illusion is incorrect.Book InformationISBN... -
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature by Ilya Prigogine 9781786631008
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $39.88Order Out of Chaos is a sweeping critique of the discordant landscape of modern scientific knowledge. In this landmark book, Nobel Laureate Ilya Prigogine and acclaimed philosopher Isabelle Stengers... -
What a Coincidence!: On Unpredictability, Complexity and the Nature of Time Bernhard Wessling 9783658406707
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $28.62How does chance enter our world? And why is so much not predictable?In an understandable, exciting and amusing narrative, the author takes us into the world of chemistry, quantum physics and biology... -
Philosophers Look at Quantum Mechanics by Alberto Cordero 9783030156619
RRP: $230.98Booksplease Price: $230.56This edited volume explores the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics. It features papers from venues of the International Ontology Congress (IOC) up to 2016. IOC is a worldwide platform... -
Chaos and Order in the World of the Psyche by Joanne Wieland-Burston 9781138927100
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $231.82'I don't know what's the matter with me - everything's upside down; the whole world seems chaotic'Chaos may erupt in our lives in many different ways - through death, divorce, conflict with family,... -
Consciousness and Freedom: The Inseparability of Thinking and Doing by Donald A. Crosby 9781498538909
Booksplease Price: $179.87Questions relating to human freedom cannot be separated from questions relating to human consciousness. The two are intricately entwined, and neither can be understood apart from the other. There is... -
Chaos and Order in the World of the Psyche by Joanne Wieland-Burston
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70'I don't know what's the matter with me - everything's upside down; the whole world seems chaotic'Chaos may erupt in our lives in many different ways - through death, divorce, conflict with family,... -
Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times Immanuel Wallerstein 9781594519796
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Uncertain Worlds is the definitive presentation of the evolution of world-systems analysis from the point of view of its founder, Immanuel Wallerstein. Few theorists have offered a more systematic... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: 150th Anniversary Edition by Lewis Carroll
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $42.44Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge... -
The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy by Scott E. Page 9780691191539
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.54How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What... -
The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy by Scott E. Page
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $69.55How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do in... -
The Temporalization of Time: Basic Tendencies in Modern Debate on Time in Philosophy and Science by Mike Sandbothe 9780742512900
Booksplease Price: $90.99The subject of 'time' is currently experiencing a revival in the most diverse areas of academic discourse. Contemporary time theory attempts to relate theoretical time concepts both to one another... -
Uncertainty and Surprise in Complex Systems: Questions on Working with the Unexpected by Reuben R. McDaniel 9783540237730
Booksplease Price: $190.18Complexity science has been a source of new insight in physical and social systems and has demonstrated that unpredictability and surprise are fundamental aspects of the world around us. This book is... -
Uncertainty and Surprise in Complex Systems: Questions on Working with the Unexpected by Reuben R. McDaniel 9783642062728
Booksplease Price: $190.18Complexity science has been a source of new insight in physical and social systems and has demonstrated that unpredictability and surprise are fundamental aspects of the world around us. This book is... -
Entropy Theory Of Aging Systems: Humans, Corporations And The Universe by Daniel Hershey 9781848162921
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $157.92Entropy is a measure of order and disorder. If left alone, aging systems go spontaneously from youthful, low entropy and order to old, high entropy and disorder. This book presents the commonality of... -
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Sterling M. McMurrin 9780521176460
Booksplease Price: $67.45Established to advance and reflect upon the scholarly and scientific learning relating to human values and valuation, the annual Tanner lectures are international and intercultural, and transcend... -
Methodological Dimension Of Islamic Economics by Masudul Alam Choudhury
RRP: $262.50Booksplease Price: $234.17The theme of circular causation has nascent origin in the field of sociology of economics with vast development applications and with epistemological issues on modeling in the framework of the... -
A Blessed Rage for Order: Deconstruction, Evolution, and Chaos by Alexander J. Argyros 9780472750085
RRP: $77.60Booksplease Price: $73.37Recent developments in a range of disciplines, from high-energy physics to biogenetic anthropology, suggest a stunningly beautiful model of the cosmos. In A Blessed Rage for Order, Alexander Argyros... -
The World View of Contemporary Physics: Does It Need a New Metaphysics? by Richard F. Kitchener 9780887067426
Booksplease Price: $53.87Although early twentieth century physics produced two revolutionary new conceptions of the nature of the physical universe-relativity theory and quantum theory-more recent developments in the... -
Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time: Bohm, Prigogine, and Process Philosophy by David Ray Griffin 9780887061158
Booksplease Price: $57.46Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time challenges the conventional view of the nature of time. The dominant twentieth-century view, supported by Einstein and many of the founders of quantum... -
Chaos in Theater: Improvisation and Complexity - Translated by Anna Grazia Cafaro and Melina Masterson by Anna Grazia Cafaro 9781433134685
RRP: $168.21Booksplease Price: $149.06Have you ever prepared a discourse by heart and then found out that, when the moment arrives, surprise and uniqueness of hic et nunc are inevitable? No matter how much you prepare a text, it will... -
Modern Thermodynamics: From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures Dilip Kondepudi (Wake Forest University) 9781118371817
RRP: $119.60Booksplease Price: $111.74Modern Thermodynamics: From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures, Second Edition presents a comprehensive introduction to 20th century thermodynamics that can be applied to both equilibrium and... -
Introduction to Modern Thermodynamics Dilip Kondepudi (Wake Forest University) 9780470015995
RRP: $113.30Booksplease Price: $108.17Thermodynamics is a core part of most science and engineering degree programs. However, the majority of texts that are currently available to students take a "classical" approach, teaching ... -
Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell by P. Pignarre
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $117.85Capitalist Sorcery neither sets out a new political programme nor offers a new theory. Rather, it aims to encourage all those who are resistant to resignation and inertia, whose stories of partial... -
Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell by Phillipe Pignarre 9780230237629
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $169.51Capitalist Sorcery neither sets out a new political programme nor offers a new theory. Rather, it aims to encourage all those who are resistant to resignation and inertia, whose stories of partial... -
![Cosmos, Bios, Theos: Scientists Reflect on Science, Religion and the Origins of the Universe, Life and "Homo Sapiens" by Henry Margenau 9780812691863](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2790519/2789855/9780812691863__50950.1714840897.jpg?c=1 "Cosmos, Bios, Theos: Scientists Reflect on Science, Religion and the Origins of the Universe, Life and "Homo Sapiens" by Henry Margenau 9780812691863")
Cosmos, Bios, Theos: Scientists Reflect on Science, Religion and the Origins of the Universe, Life and "Homo Sapiens" by Henry Margenau 9780812691863
Booksplease Price: $50.11How does modern science bear upon such ultimate questions as the origin of the universe and the existence of God? "Cosmos, Bios, Theos" is a portfolio of opinions and arguments from 60 scientists,... -
A Third Window: Natural Life Beyond Newton and Darwin by Robert E. Ulanowicz 9781599471549
Booksplease Price: $59.49Thus far, the dominant paradigms through which modern scientists have viewed nature have been structured primarily around Newtonian and Darwinian approaches. As theoretical ecologist Robert E... -
Cosmopolitics II by Isabelle Stengers
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.45Originally published in French in seven volumes, Cosmopolitics investigates the role and authority of the sciences in modern societies and challenges their claims to objectivity, rationality, and... -
Cosmopolitics II by Isabelle Stengers 9780816656882
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $103.47Originally published in French in seven volumes, Cosmopolitics investigates the role and authority of the sciences in modern societies and challenges their claims to objectivity, rationality, and... -
Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time by Huw Price 9780195117981
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $38.20`splendidly provocative ... enjoy it as a feast for the imagination.' John Gribbin, Sunday Times Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the... -
Globalization and Multicultural Societies: Some Views from Europe by Marina Ricciardelli 9780268029579
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $46.05This timely book offers a series of lively essays debating the topic of globalization-our increasingly integrated and interconnected world. Globalization and Multicultural Societies argues that the... -
Phenomenalism, Phenomenology, and the Question of Time: A Comparative Study of the Theories of Mach, Husserl, and Boltzmann by Adam Berg 9781498503723
Booksplease Price: $235.47Phenomenalism, Phenomenology and the Question of Time: A Comparative Study of the Theories of Mach, Husserl, and Boltzmann analyzes two interconnected themes: the split between phenomenalism and... -
Uncertainties of Time: The Past and Future of TimeSpace Immanuel Wallerstein 9781041084983
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Examining the concept of TimeSpace in the work of Immanuel Wallerstein and its crucial role within world-systems analysis, Uncertainties of Time brings together important but previously... -
Nonlinear Pricing: Theory and Applications Christopher T. May 9780471245513
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $103.64One of the many striking applications of nonlinear technology in recent years, nonlinear pricing uses cutting-edge technology to identify and exploit patterns hidden within the seemingly... -
Embracing Complexity: Strategic Perspectives for an Age of Turbulence by Jean G. Boulton
Booksplease Price: $97.19The book describes what it means to say the world is complex and explores what that means for managers, policy makers and individuals. The first part of the book is about the theory and ideas of...