Tyler Volk is professor of biology and environmental studies at New York University and a recipient of the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award and Golden Dozen Award. His books include
Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind (Columbia, 1995);
Gaia’s Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth (1998); and
CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge (2008).
8 Ebooks de Tyler Volk
Tyler Volk: Metapatterns
In the interdisciplinary tradition of Buckminster Fuller’s work, Gregory Bateson’s Mind and Nature, and Fritjof Capra’s Tao of Physics, Metapatterns embraces both nature and culture, seeking out the …
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Tyler Volk: Quarks to Culture
Our world is nested, both physically and socially, and at each level we find innovations that are necessary for the next. Consider: atoms combine to form molecules, molecules combine to form single-c …
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Tyler Volk: What is Death?
what is death? A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life Answering the question ‘What is death?’ by focusing on the individual is blinkered. It restricts attention to a narrow zone around the individual …
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€13.99
Dorion Sagan & Tyler Volk: Death & Sex
On DEATH . . .What is shared by spawning Pacific salmon, towering trees, and suicidal bacteria? In his lucid and concise exploration of how and why things die, Tyler Volk explains the intriguing ways …
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€24.27
Tyler Volk: Gaia’s Body
Is Earth alive? Put more rigorously, is the biosphere a self- sustaining meta-organism? This is the essence of Gaia theory: if the biosphere really is a single coherent system, then it must have some …
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€57.78
Tyler Volk: CO2 Rising
An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change.The most colossal environmental disturbance in human hist …
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€64.25
Eileen Crist & H. Bruce Rinker: Gaia in Turmoil
Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.Gaian theor …
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€102.33
