Fritjof Capra, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-49471-7
Physicist and bestselling author Capra (The Tao of Physics
and The Web of Life) delivers another fascinating discourse that explores of the interconnectedness of all living (and some nonliving) things, from the first life form of protocells to the...
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Fritjof Capra, Author . Doubleday $26 (329p) ISBN 978-0-385-51390-6
Capra, author of the classic The Tao of Physics
, makes the case in this fascinating intellectual biography for the great artist Leonardo being the unsung “father of modern science.” Drawing on approximately 6,000 pages and 100,000...
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Fritjof Capra, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-47675-1
In his bestsellers, The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point, physicist Capra charted a paradigm shift from a mechanistic to an ecological worldview. In his new book, a rewarding synthesis that will challenge serious readers, he claims that a...
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Fritjof Capra, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-47322-8
In attempting to show how encounters with various people fueled the writing of his bestsellers The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point, Capra's new book is alternately superficial and meaty. That he once sat next to Alan Watts at a dinner party,...
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Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi. Cambridge Univ, $40 (498p) ISBN 978-1-107-01136-6
Capra (The Tao of Physics) and Luisi ambitiously offer an intellectual history of much of the social and natural sciences as they argue that the underlying metaphor for how we see and understand the world needs to change from that of “a machine to...
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Fritjof Capra and Ugo Mattei. Berrett-Koehler, $27.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-62656-206-6
The modern-day legal system is seldom tied to current unsustainable ecological practices. Yet in this thoughtful treatise, co-authors Capra and Mattei show how tenets of western jurisprudence, such as private property rights and eminent domain, have
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