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hardcover. Condición: Acceptable. Pencil marking, including underlining and marginalia, throughout copy. Dust jacket intact. This is a damaged book. May be ex-library, water-damaged, or spine creased/broken. Acceptable, Reading copy only, with writing/markings and heavy wear. Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Columbia Univ Pr, 1989. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good. Previous owner name on flyleaf. Has sticker on front cover.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. dj in mylar; black c w/blue spine titles; owner's initials; 343 clean, unmarked pages/index. a foundational text in systems science and biology that proposes a non-reductionist framework for understanding nature's complexity. It introduces a hierarchical, multi-level approach to evolution, emphasizing the roles of scale, information, and the observer in defining complex systems.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. M.I.T. Press hardcover in dust jacket, 1993, 1st edition, clean/tight, No creases/tears, name on front endpaper otherwise unmarked and defect free; Fine/Fine. We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble wrap the book and ship it in a New BOX- Not a plastic bag like the zombie sellers.…

Softcover. Condición: Very Good-. Softcover. Title page lists the year "1985" after publishers name. Copyright 1985. ISBN lists publication date as 1989. Book in Very Good- condition. Wear, price and inventory number in book, mild crease in front cover along spine, last two pages starting to loosen but still attached, front cover curves upward slightly, mild soiling, a few light scrapes on back cover, light crease in front cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 343 pages.…

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:0262193353. …

Hardcover. Condición: As New. 1st Edition. Two small tears to the top of dustjacket. Otherwise, as new.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 357 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Some underlining.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Science. Covers very nice, spine ends lightly bumped. Interior clean and tight, book slightly cocked. Dust jacket lightly rubbed and sunned, edges starting to curl.

origi.Leinenband mit Schutzumschlag, 8°, 357 Seiten. Schutzumschlag minimal bestossen sonst guter Zustand.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket, as issued. 1st Edition. Hard Cover, no dust jacket as issued. White plastic over boards with title printed on spine and front in gold and red. 437 pages, with text illustrations, chapter bibliographies, glossary, index, 1st edition, 1st printing, with full number line. CONDITION: NEAR FINE, binding square and tight, pages bright and unmarked, save for former owner's name and date on flyleaf. slight shelf wear, else Fine. Scarce. CONTENT: This book provides an overview of evolutionary biology in 15 concise chapters. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy.…

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Hardback. Condición: New. A bold effort to find a functional and transactional framework for synthetic evolutionary theory, "Evolving Hierarchical Systems" seeks to represent the order in nature by discriminating a hierarchical system and defining the logical boundaries of the concepts inherent in this system (such as time, causality, complexity, partitioning, scale, and polarity). Salthe's basic assumption is that the world is unlimitedly complex. Biology and some other sciences, such as geology and applied physics, have become entangled in this complexity with, the author writes, 'as little ability to negotiate it as a fly in a spider's web'. He argues that biological nature in particular is undercharacterized in our representations, and because of that so is the rest of nature. The book first describes the principles of hierarchical structure and discusses the process of discovering the relevant aspects of the hierarchy of nature.It then brings in the concept of self-reference and moves onto an interpretation and explanation of organic evolution in this framework.While Salthe's focus is in biology, the outline of a hierarchy theory he presents is asserted to be a 'philosophical machine' that can be applied as a hermeneutical tool to many fields of inquiry concerned with change in complex systems. Felt by the author to also be a response to Jacques Monod's "Chance and Necessity", this book is a significant statement on the hierarchical organization of the surface of the earth. It is provocative reading not only for biologists but also for anthropologists, sociologists, geologists, and scientists interested in general systems research.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed on the free front endpaper by the author to Stephen Jay Gould, "Steve -- More irrational, but not less precise than science. [illegible signature, probably Stan or Stanley]." In the top corner of the cover, Dr. Gould pencilled "S6," his call number for this volume. Binding has minor wear; front hinge is starting, holding; text clean. 55 p., with a frontispiece drawing of a dragonfly. Interesting provenance. [br 30]. Eric P. Salthe (frontispiece) (ilustrador). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardback. Condición: New. A bold effort to find a functional and transactional framework for synthetic evolutionary theory, "Evolving Hierarchical Systems" seeks to represent the order in nature by discriminating a hierarchical system and defining the logical boundaries of the concepts inherent in this system (such as time, causality, complexity, partitioning, scale, and polarity). Salthe's basic assumption is that the world is unlimitedly complex. Biology and some other sciences, such as geology and applied physics, have become entangled in this complexity with, the author writes, 'as little ability to negotiate it as a fly in a spider's web'. He argues that biological nature in particular is undercharacterized in our representations, and because of that so is the rest of nature. The book first describes the principles of hierarchical structure and discusses the process of discovering the relevant aspects of the hierarchy of nature.It then brings in the concept of self-reference and moves onto an interpretation and explanation of organic evolution in this framework.While Salthe's focus is in biology, the outline of a hierarchy theory he presents is asserted to be a 'philosophical machine' that can be applied as a hermeneutical tool to many fields of inquiry concerned with change in complex systems. Felt by the author to also be a response to Jacques Monod's "Chance and Necessity", this book is a significant statement on the hierarchical organization of the surface of the earth. It is provocative reading not only for biologists but also for anthropologists, sociologists, geologists, and scientists interested in general systems research.…

Condición: New.

Condición: New. Seeks to represent the order in nature by discriminating a hierarchical system and defining the logical boundaries of the concepts inherent in this system (such as time, causality, complexity, partitioning, scale, and polarity). This book describes the prin.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 343 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Evolutionary Systems | Biological and Epistemological Perspectives on Selection and Self-Organization | G. Vijver (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | xii | Englisch | 2010 | Springer | EAN 9789048151035 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The three well known revolutions of the past centuries - the Copernican, the Darwinian and the Freudian - each in their own way had a deflating and mechanizing effect on the position of humans in nature. They opened up a richness of disillusion: earth acquired a more modest place in the universe, the human body and mind became products of a long material evolutionary history, and human reason, instead of being the central, immaterial, locus of understanding, was admitted into the theater of discourse only as a materialized and frequently out-of-control actor. Is there something objectionable to this picture Formulated as such, probably not. Why should we resist the idea that we are in certain ways, and to some degree, physically, biologically or psychically determined Why refuse to acknowledge the fact that we are materially situated in an ever evolving world Why deny that the ways of inscription (traces of past events and processes) are co-determinative of further 'evolutionary pathways' Why minimize the idea that each intervention, of each natural being, is temporally and materially situated, and has, as such, the inevitable consequence of changing the world The point is, however, that there are many, more or less radically different, ways to consider the 'mechanization' of man and nature. There are, in particular, many ways to get the message of 'material and evolutionary determination', as well as many levels at which this determination can be thought of as relevant or irrelevant.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The three well known revolutions of the past centuries - the Copernican, the Darwinian and the Freudian - each in their own way had a deflating and mechanizing effect on the position of humans in nature. They opened up a richness of disillusion: earth acquired a more modest place in the universe, the human body and mind became products of a long material evolutionary history, and human reason, instead of being the central, immaterial, locus of understanding, was admitted into the theater of discourse only as a materialized and frequently out-of-control actor. Is there something objectionable to this picture Formulated as such, probably not. Why should we resist the idea that we are in certain ways, and to some degree, physically, biologically or psychically determined Why refuse to acknowledge the fact that we are materially situated in an ever evolving world Why deny that the ways of inscription (traces of past events and processes) are co-determinative of further 'evolutionary pathways' Why minimize the idea that each intervention, of each natural being, is temporally and materially situated, and has, as such, the inevitable consequence of changing the world The point is, however, that there are many, more or less radically different, ways to consider the 'mechanization' of man and nature. There are, in particular, many ways to get the message of 'material and evolutionary determination', as well as many levels at which this determination can be thought of as relevant or irrelevant.…