Authors:Philip Clayton, Paul Davies,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: emergence, religion, science, hypothesis, emergentist
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2008-12-15
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 019954431X
ISBN-13: 9780199544318
Much of the modern period was dominated by a `reductionist’ theory of science. On this view, to explain any event in the world is to reduce it down to fundamental particles, laws, and forces. In recent years reductionism has been dramatically challenged by a radically new paradigm called `emergence’. According to this new theory, natural history reveals the continuous emergence of novel phenomena: new structures and new organisms with new causal powers. Consciousness is yet one more emergent level in the natural hierarchy. Many theologians and religious scholars believe that this n
Author: Ralph Stacey
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: emergence, complexity, experience, organizing, patterns, interaction, organizations, local, experiencing, global
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-07-27
List price: $58.95
ISBN-10: 0415351332
ISBN-13: 9780415351331
Examining the experiences of organizational practitioners, this informative book features contributions from experienced leaders, consultants and managers in various organizations, and narrative accounts of the contributors work address key topical questions. Rather than offering descriptions of organizational life, this book provides reflective accounts of real life experiences of researching in organizations, and will be a valuable insight for academics and business school students and practitioners. In considering several key questions in terms of daily experience, the contributors e
Authors:A. D. Cliff, M.R. Smallman-Raynor, P. Haggett, D.F. S
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: emergence, geographical, studies, environmental, oxford, analysis, diseases, infectious
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2009-09-28
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 0199244731
ISBN-13: 9780199244737
The last four decades of human history have seen the emergence of an unprecedented number of ’new’ infectious diseases: the familiar roll call includes AIDS, Ebola, H5N1 influenza, hantavirus, hepatitis E, Lassa fever, legionnaires’ and Lyme diseases, Marburg fever, Rift Valley fever, SARS, and West Nile. The outbreaks range in scale from global pandemics that have brought death and misery to millions, through to self-limiting outbreaks of mainly local impact. Some outbreaks have erupted explosively but have already faded away; some grumble along or continue to devastate as n
Authors:Gianfranco Minati, Mario Abram, Eliano Pessa,
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: emergence, conference, international, castel, italy, ocotber, proceedings, ivano, theory, systemic, systems, properties, towards, general, processes
Number of Pages: 816
Published: 2009-02-05
List price: $323.00
ISBN-10: 9812793461
ISBN-13: 9789812793461
This book contains the Proceedings of the 2007 Conference of the Italian Systems Society. Papers deal with the interdisciplinary study of processes of emergence, considering theoretical aspects and applications from physics, cognitive science, biology, artificial intelligence, economics, architecture, philosophy, music and social systems. Such an interdisciplinary study implies the need to model and distinguish, in different disciplinary contexts, the establishment of structures, systems and systemic properties. Systems, as modelled by the observer, not only possess properties, but are also ab
Authors:Jerome Katz, Jerome Katz, Thomas G. Lumpkin, Alex Ste
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: growth, emergence, firm, advances, entrepreneurship, amp
Number of Pages: 305
Published: 2010-06-23
List price: $154.95
ISBN-10: 0857240978
ISBN-13: 9780857240972
Volume 12 will consider the timely issue of entrepreneurship and family business. Papers consider the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes: the emergence and growth of family businesses, and founding conditions unique to family firms; maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit of the founding generation; the role of family in corporate entrepreneurship; the use of entrepreneurial policies, practices and strategies by family firms; outcomes attributable to differences
Author: CJ SAM
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: emergence, honey, streets
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2004-04-19
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1418420883
ISBN-13: 9781418420888
Author: Bruce D. Smith
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Keywords: agriculture, emergence
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 1998-04
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0756756103
ISBN-13: 9780756756109
In this text, the archaeologist, Bruce Smith, explores the initial emergence and early expansion of agriculture and the transformations in human society that made it possible. He charts the course of the agricultural revolution as it occurred in the Middle East, Europe, China, Africa and the Americas, showing how basic archaeological methods and modern technologies, such as plant analysis, radiocarbon dating and DNA sampling are used to investigate this event. Although in the agricultural mind, the agricultural revolution is often seen as a one-step transition from hunter-gatherer societies to
