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Title

The essence of time / by Enzo Tiezzi.

Author

Tiezzi, Enzo.

Publication

Southampton, UK ; Boston : WIT Press ; Billerica, MA : Computational Mechanics, [2003], ©2003.

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Description

x, 123 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"In this book Enzo Tiezzi highlights the continuity between the physical-mathematic and humanistic sciences. He also urges us to reflect on the tempo of the modern era, and to contrast it with the brilliance and complexity of the human relationship with a living world." "An illuminating guide to the key scientific ideas of our time which relate ecology with economy with the laws of thermodynamics, and those that highlight an understanding of the human relationship with planet earth, the text traces themes such as entropy to negentropy, flux of energy and material and information. The result is an exploration of great scientific depth and the most complete historical survey to date of the ideas behind ecological economics."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The sustainable world ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Sustainable world ; v. 2.

Subject

• Environmental economics
• Science
• Human ecology
• Sciences
• Économie de l'environnement
• Écologie humaine
• Duurzame ontwikkeling
• Milieuvraagstuk

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword : from a space to a time culture / Ilya Prigogine -- Baron von Münchhausen and Maxwell's devil -- The green talisman -- The scientific foundations for a cosmogony -- The way of the hippogryph : a fascinating alternative for the origins of life -- Spin -- The planet Earth plays dice -- What a funny planet -- Hic sun leones -- Evolutionary conservation or conservation evolution? -- The anti-aesthetic assumption of Newton and Descartes -- Towards an evolutionary physics -- Linger, fair passing moment!

ISBN

• 1853129496
• 9781853129490

LCCN

2002101095

OCLC

• ocm49297434
• 49297434
• SCSB-4322573

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries