The Systems View of Life


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The first volume to integrate life's biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions into a single, coherent framework.




The Organism as a Whole, from a Physicochemical Viewpoint


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"The Organism as a Whole, from a Physicochemical Viewpoint" by Jacques Loeb Jacques Loeb was a German-born American physiologist and biologist, and his career gave him the experience necessary to attempt to tackle life and biology from a more chemical point of view. In this book, he refutes claims that chemistry and physics are far-removed from biology and that these sciences work entirely independently of each other.




The Mechanistic Conception of Life, Biological Essays


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The mechanistic conception of life, biological essays by Jacques Loeb. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1912 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.







The New Mechanical Philosophy


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This volume argues for a new image of science that understands both natural and social phenomena to be the product of mechanisms, casting the work of science as an effort to understand those mechanisms. Glennan offers an account of the nature of mechanisms and of the models used to represent them in physical, life, and social sciences.




The Mechanistic Conception of Life; Biological Essays


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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.