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Drawn from those presented at the January 2002 seminar, these 14 papers describe the sources of complexity in science and information, the resulting organizational implications as well as global and ethical implications, and complexity's philosophical, epistemological and methodological foundations. Topics include the relation between complexity and life, ecology as a dialog between the living and dead, complexity and environmental education, information as a central concept to understanding biological organization, transitions from paradigms to figures of thought, complex dynamical systems and the problem of identity, complexity in society and everyday life, misguided ideas about organizational change and the role of complexity in patterns of the change landscape, social organizational modeling, new perspectives in economic analysis and business management, complexity in governance, globalization and the complexity of human dignity, and the consolations of uncertainty. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
