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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “stefan thurner”
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  • 43 Visions For Complexity

    by Stefan Thurner ...
    Series Book 3 - Exploring Complexity
    Coping with the complexities of the social world in the 21st century requires deeper quantitative and predictive understanding. Forty-three internationally acclaimed scientists and thinkers share their vision for complexity science in the next decade in this invaluable book. Topics cover how complexity and big data science could help society to tackle the great challenges ahead, and how the newly ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Principles of Evolution

    From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life

    Edited by Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns, Stefan Thurner ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    With contributions from a team of leading experts, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of recent achievements in our scientific understanding of evolution. The questions it asks concern the beginnings of the universe, the origin of life and the chances of its arising at all, the role of contingency, and the search for universal features in the plethora of evolutionary phenomena. Rather ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth

    The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere

    by Eric Smith, Harold J. Morowitz ...
    Uniting the conceptual foundations of the physical sciences and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary book explores the origin of life as a planetary process. Combining geology, geochemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, evolution and statistical physics to create an inclusive picture of the living state, the authors develop the argument that the emergence of life was a necessary cascade ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines

    Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines

    by Stephen H. Kellert ...
    What happens to scientific knowledge when researchers outside the natural sciences bring elements of the latest trend across disciplinary boundaries for their own purposes? Researchers in fields from anthropology to family therapy and traffic planning employ the concepts, methods, and results of chaos theory to harness the disciplinary prestige of the natural sciences, to motivate methodological ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Introducing Genetics

    A Graphic Guide

    by Steve Jones ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes a human being.Introducing Genetics takes us from the early work of Mendel to the discovery of DNA, the human gene map and the treatment of inborn ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Emergence of Everything

    How the World Became Complex

    by Harold J. Morowitz ...
    When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts--indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different--we call that phenomenon emergence. When the chemicals diffusing in the primordial waters came together to form the first living cell, that was emergence. When the activities of the neurons in the brain result in mind, that too is emergence. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Book of Extremes

    Why the 21st Century Isn’t Like the 20th Century

    by Ted G. Lewis ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    What makes the 21st century different from the 20th century? This century is the century of extremes -- political, economic, social, and global black-swan events happening with increasing frequency and severity. Book of Extremes is a tour of the current reality as seen through the lens of complexity theory – the only theory capable of explaining why the Arab Spring happened and why it will happen ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Molecular Science of Fluctuations Toward Biological Functions

    Edited by Mikio Kataoka, Ryuichi Ueoka, Yuko Okamoto, Mazahide Terazima ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    In this monograph, the importance of fluctuations for biological reactions is discussed from various points of view. Understanding the biological reactions at the molecular level is one of the major targets in many scientific fields, including not only basic biology but also physics, physical chemistry, and medical science. One of the key factors in the process is “fluctuation”. Thermal energy ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Foundations of Chaos Revisited: From Poincaré to Recent Advancements

    Edited by Christos Skiadas ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    With contributions from a number of pioneering researchers in the field, this collection is aimed not only at researchers and scientists in nonlinear dynamics but also at a broader audience interested in understanding and exploring how modern chaos theory has developed since the days of Poincaré.This book was motivated by and is an outcome of the CHAOS 2015 meeting held at the Henri Poincaré ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Morphogenetic Engineering

    Toward Programmable Complex Systems

    Edited by René Doursat, Hiroki Sayama, Olivier Michel ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Generally, spontaneous pattern formation phenomena are random and repetitive, whereas elaborate devices are the deterministic product of human design.Yet, biological organisms and collective insect constructions are exceptional examples of complex systems that are both self-organized and architectural.This book is the first initiative of its kind toward establishing a new field of research, ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Multiscale Modeling of Complex Molecular Structure and Dynamics with MBN Explorer

    by Andrey V. Solov’yov, Ilia A. Solov’yov, Andrey V. Korol ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book introduces readers to MesoBioNano (MBN) Explorer – a multi-purpose software package designed to model molecular systems at various levels of size and complexity. In addition, it presents a specially designed multi-task toolkit and interface – the MBN Studio – which enables the set-up of input files, controls the simulations, and supports the subsequent visualization and analysis of the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Acoustics of Musical Instruments

    by Antoine Chaigne, Jean Kergomard ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book, the first English-language translation of Acoustique des instruments de musique, Second Edition, presents the necessary foundations for understanding the complex physical phenomena involved in musical instruments. What is the function of the labium in a flute? Which features of an instrument allow us to make a clear audible distinction between a clarinet and a trumpet? With the help of ... Read more

    $435.99 CAD