Book Details
Title: The Emergence of Everything; How the World Became Complex
Author: Harold J. Morowitz
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2002
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 209
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-19-513513-X
Battle Scars:
Overall very good condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact. Some shelf wear to extremities with a little rubbing and creases, as well as a couple of small tears. Superficial scuffing. There is an old price sticker on the rear.
The hardcover is intact with very minor shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners. Embossing on the spine is intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts - indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents the 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.
In 'The Emergence of Everything', one of the leading scientists involved in the study of complexity, Harold J. Morowitz, takes us on a sweeping tour of the universe, a tour of 28 stops, each one highlighting a particularly important moment of emergence. For instance, Morowitz illuminates the emergence of the stars, the birth of the elements and of the periodic table, and the appearance of solar systems and planets. We look at the emergence of living cells, animals, vertebrates, reptiles, and mammals, leading to the great apes and the appearance of humanity. He also examines tool making, the evolution of language, the invention of agriculture and technology, and the birth of cities. And as he offers these insights in to the evolutionary unfolding of our universe, our solar system, and life itself, Morowitz also seeks out the nature of God in the emergent universe, the God posited by Spinoza, Bruno and Einstein, a God Morowitz argues we can know through a study of the laws of nature.
Written by one of our wisest scientists, 'The Emergence of Everything offers a fascinating new way to look at the universe and the natural world, and it makes an important contribution to the dialogue between science and religion."
Book Details
Title: The Emergence of Everything; How the World Became Complex
Author: Harold J. Morowitz
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2002
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 209
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-19-513513-X
Battle Scars:
Overall very good condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact. Some shelf wear to extremities with a little rubbing and creases, as well as a couple of small tears. Superficial scuffing. There is an old price sticker on the rear.
The hardcover is intact with very minor shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners. Embossing on the spine is intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts - indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents the 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.
In 'The Emergence of Everything', one of the leading scientists involved in the study of complexity, Harold J. Morowitz, takes us on a sweeping tour of the universe, a tour of 28 stops, each one highlighting a particularly important moment of emergence. For instance, Morowitz illuminates the emergence of the stars, the birth of the elements and of the periodic table, and the appearance of solar systems and planets. We look at the emergence of living cells, animals, vertebrates, reptiles, and mammals, leading to the great apes and the appearance of humanity. He also examines tool making, the evolution of language, the invention of agriculture and technology, and the birth of cities. And as he offers these insights in to the evolutionary unfolding of our universe, our solar system, and life itself, Morowitz also seeks out the nature of God in the emergent universe, the God posited by Spinoza, Bruno and Einstein, a God Morowitz argues we can know through a study of the laws of nature.
Written by one of our wisest scientists, 'The Emergence of Everything offers a fascinating new way to look at the universe and the natural world, and it makes an important contribution to the dialogue between science and religion."
