Overview
Complexity is a new and exciting interdisciplinary approach to science and society that challenges traditional academic divisions frameworks and paradigms. This book helps the expert student or policy practitioner have a better understanding of the enormous potential of complexity and how it relates to their particular area of interest or expertise. It provides excellent representations of the core developments of complexity thinking in a number of major fields. Complexity Science and Society brings together an unrivalled selection of new applications of complexity from leading experts across subjects including medicine and healthcare education public policy and social theory ecology philosophy international politics the arts modelling and design and others. Together they offer an unprecedented review of the latest developments. This book is an accessible interdisciplinary introduction to the wonderful intellectual breadth that complexity can offer.
Full Product Details
Author: Jan Bogg ,
Robert Geyer ,
Michael McGhee ,
Fritjof Capra
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: CRC Press
Edition: 1st New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 17.40cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 24.60cm
Weight: 0.430kg
ISBN: 9781846192036
ISBN 10: 184619203
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 20 August 2007
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A book for those who like their complexity in bite-size pieces...this brevity does allow for the inclusion of a startlingly wide, range of topics, all of which illustrate the flexibility of the concept of complexity, and which also allows for some fascinating links to be made between topics that may otherwise seem to have almost nothing in common THE PRACTISING MIDWIFE
"""A book for those who like their complexity in bite-size pieces...this brevity does allow for the inclusion of a startlingly wide, range of topics, all of which illustrate the flexibility of the concept of complexity, and which also allows for some fascinating links to be made between topics that may otherwise seem to have almost nothing in common"" THE PRACTISING MIDWIFE"
""A book for those who like their complexity in bite-size pieces...this brevity does allow for the inclusion of a startlingly wide, range of topics, all of which illustrate the flexibility of the concept of complexity, and which also allows for some fascinating links to be made between topics that may otherwise seem to have almost nothing in common"" THE PRACTISING MIDWIFE
Author Information
Respectively Co-Director, Centre of Complexity Research and Academic Sub Dean, Medical Faculty, University of Liverpool; Professor of Politics, Complexity and Policy, Lancaster University and Co-Director, Centre of Complexity Research
