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Author: Joseph Needham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-05-21
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 110750483X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains the text of the Terry Lectures for 1934-5, which discuss the nature, deployment, and hierarchical continuity of biological order.
Author: David D. Friedman
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Friedman has never taken an economics class in his life. Sure, he's taught economics at UCLA. Chicago, Tulane, Cornell, and Santa Clara, but don't hold that against him. After all, everyone's an economist. We all make daily decisions that rely, consciously or not, on an acute understanding of economic theory--from picking the fastest checkout tine at the supermarket to voting or not voting, from negotiating the best job offer to finding the right person to marry. Hidden Order is an essential guide to rational living, revealing all you need to know to get through each day without being eaten alive. Friedman's wise and immensely accessible book is perfect for amateur economists, struggling economics students, young parents and professionals--just about anyone who wants a clear-cut approach to why we make the choices we do and a sensible strategy for how to make the right ones.
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: Antonio Damasio
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0307908763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture. The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular life and other primitive life-forms; and that inherent in our very chemistry is a powerful force, a striving toward life maintenance that governs life in all its guises, including the development of genes that help regulate and transmit life. In The Strange Order of Things, Damasio gives us a new way of comprehending the world and our place in it.
Author: Joseph Needham
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains the text of the Terry Lectures for 1934-5, which discuss the nature, deployment, and hierarchical continuity of biological order.
Author: Jordan B. Peterson
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2021-03-02
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0241407656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe inspirational sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the world - now in paperback In 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to modern anxieties. His insights have helped millions of readers and resonated powerfully around the world. Now in this long-awaited sequel, Peterson goes further, showing that part of life's meaning comes from reaching out into the domain beyond what we know, and adapting to an ever-transforming world. While an excess of chaos threatens us with uncertainty, an excess of order leads to a lack of curiosity and creative vitality. Beyond Order therefore calls on us to balance the two fundamental principles of reality - order and chaos - and reveals the profound meaning that can be found on the path that divides them. In times of instability and suffering, Peterson reminds us that there are sources of strength on which we can all draw: insights borrowed from psychology, philosophy, and humanity's greatest myths and stories. Drawing on the hard-won truths of ancient wisdom, as well as deeply personal lessons from his own life and clinical practice, Peterson offers twelve new principles to guide readers towards a more courageous, truthful and meaningful life.
Author: Michael P. Murphy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-03-13
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780521599399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErwin Schrödinger's book What is Life? had a tremendous influence on the development of molecular biology, stimulating scientists such as Watson and Crick to explore the physical basis of life. Much of the appeal of Schrödinger's book lay in its approach to the central problems in biology - heredity and how organisms use energy to maintain order - from a physicist's perspective. At Trinity College, Dublin a number of outstanding scientists from a range of disciplines gathered to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of What is Life? and following Schrödinger's example fifty years previously, presented their views on the current central problems in biology. The contributors to this volume include Stephen Jay Gould, Roger Penrose, Jared Diamond, Manfred Eigen, John Maynard Smith, Christien de Duve and Lewis Wolpert. This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in biology and its future.
Author: Patience Mususa
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2021-10-07
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0472054996
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Author: Holly Pierlot
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1928832415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the help of your own rule, you can get control of your household, grow closer to God, come to love your husband more, and raise up good Christian children.
Author: Liz Davenport
Publisher: Harmony
Published: 2001-12-18
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0609807773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Six Steps to Organizational Freedom Do you: *Miss important deadlines at work? *Forget to return urgent phone calls? *Lose papers that were “just here a minute ago”? *Have multiple layers of sticky notes on your computer? *Leave projects unfinished for days, weeks, or even months at a time? If any of these sound familiar, then you are among the ranks of the disorganized—whether mildly or completely—and Liz Davenport has written this book just for you. Order from Chaos is the organizing book for disorganized people. In six easy steps she offers a system that will help you clean up your act. She demonstrates how to clear your desk by teaching you what's trash and why, reveals what a calendar is really meant to be, and provides a no-fail system for prioritization. At the end of the day, your desk will be clear and your mind will be free to relax. Rather than offering overcomplicated instructions for filing systems and time management plans, Order from Chaos focuses on ease of use. There is not one person—from office assistant to CEO—who will not benefit from this straightforward, easy-to-maintain plan.
