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Author: C. H. Waddington
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-20
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1317351975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1961, this book explains the main trends and problems in modern biological thought, at that time. It was based on lectures presented at the University College of the West Indies, Jamaica, in 1960 to members from different faculties and is therefore an accessible guide for all to the subject.
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Published: 2018-09
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ISBN-13: 9780945159803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Nature of Life: Readings in Biology, Volume 2
Author: Eric Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-03-31
Total Pages: 703
ISBN-13: 1107121884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUniting the foundations of physics and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary and integrative book explores life as a planetary process.
Author: Gennadiy Zhegunov
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2005-07-25
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 3642303943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife is a diverse and ubiquitous phenomenon on Earth, characterized by fundamental features distinguishing living bodies from nonliving material. Yet it is also so complex that it has long defied precise definition. This book from a seasoned biologist offers new insights into the nature of life by illuminating a fascinating architecture of dualities inherent in its existence and propagation. Life is connected with individual living beings, yet it is also a collective and inherently global phenomenon of the material world. It embodies a dual existence of cycles of phenotypic life, and their unseen driver — an uninterrupted march of genetic information whose collective immortality is guaranteed by individual mortality. Although evolution propagates and tunes species of organisms, the beings produced can be regarded merely as tools for the survival and cloning of genomes written in an unchanging code. What are the physical versus informational bases and driving forces of life, and how do they unite as an integrated system? What does time mean for individuals, life on the global scale, and the underlying information? This accessible examination of principles and evidence shows that a network of dualities lies at the heart of biological puzzles that have engaged the human mind for millennia.
Author: Christopher Alexander
Publisher: Nature of Order
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 0972652914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Book Oneof this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and establishes this understanding of living structures as an intellectual basis for a new architecture. He identifies fifteen geometric properties which tend to accompany the presence of life in nature, and also in the buildings and cities we make. These properties are seen over and over in nature and in the cities and streets of the past, but they have almost disappeared in the impersonal developments and buildings of the last hundred years. This book shows that living structures depend on features which make a close connection with the human self, and that only living structure has the capacity to support human well-being.
Author: Irving Singer
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009-12-30
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 0262266474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn acclaimed philosopher offers a systematic mapping of the various facets of love. In his widely acclaimed trilogy The Nature of Love, Irving Singer traced the development of the concept of love in history and literature from the Greeks to the twentieth century. In this second volume of his Meaning in Life trilogy, Singer returns to the subject of his earlier work, exploring a different approach. Without denying his previous emphasis on the role of imagination and creativity, in this book Singer investigates the ability of them both to make one's life meaningful. A “systematic mapping” of the various facets of love (including sexual love, love in society, and religious love), The Pursuit of Love is an extended essay that offers Singer's own philosophical and psychological theory of love. Rich in insight into literature, the history of ideas, and the complexities of our being, The Pursuit of Love is a thought-provoking inquiry into fundamental aspects of all human relationships.
Author: M. T. Anderson
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 0763629502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen he and his tutor escape to British-occupied Boston, Octavian learns of Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join the counterrevolutionary forces. 75,000 first printing.
Author: John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1988-07-29
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9780521357692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Reinhold Niebuhr
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Published: 1948
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Scott
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Published: 2021-10-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780639831848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSacred Nature Volume 2: Reconnecting People to Our Planet is a beautiful 288-page fine art wildlife photography book, supporting the protection of our planet and its priceless wild places. This book takes the ethos of the first volume and applies it to the whole planet - to our savannas, forests, deserts, mountains, oceans and polar regions. Jonathan and Angela's intention is to reveal the wonder and beauty of our world, instilling a sense of awe and concern for its well being. In 2016 Jonathan and Angela Scott published their award-winning book Sacred Nature: Life's Eternal Dance. This book, the standard edition of which is now out of print, was Angela's vision brought to life by the artistry of their son David's design work. The book was met with overwhelming success and won Gold in the 2017 Independent Publishers awards (IPPY) for Photography. Volume 1 centred around a place close to the Scotts' hearts -the vast Mara-Serengeti ecosystem in East Africa where they have spent much of the past forty years, somewhere they describe as The Last Place on Earth. This is a corner of Eden so breathtaking to behold that it is almost beyond belief that it might one day die for lack of care and foresight on the part of humanity. We must do everything we can to help protect these last wild places. The Scotts explored the natural rhythms that permeate the African savannahs and woodlands, illuminating life's eternal dance.
