A distinguished chemist and Nobel laureate defines open dissipative structures that encompass human social behavior, chemical reactions, and ecosystems

Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature

Science & Math

Ilya Prigogine

Isabelle Stengers

History & Philosophy

Fontana Press

hardback with bright yellow dustjacket, jacket a little sunned along spine, review inserted in back, clean copy, first edition, name in ink

Physics

Heinemann

Modern Thermodynamics: From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures

Thermodynamics is a core part of most science and engineering curricula. However, most texts that are currently available to students still treat thermodynamics very much as it was presented in the 19th century, generally for historical rather than pedagogical reasons. Modern Thermodynamics takes a different approach, and deals with the relationship between irreversible processes and entropy.The relationship between irreversible processes and entropy is introduced early on, enabling the reader to benefit from seeing the relationship in such processes as heat conduction and chemical reactions. This text presents thermodynamics in a contemporary and exciting manner, with a wide range of applications, and many exercises and examples. Students are also encouraged to use computers through the provision of Mathematica code and Internet / WWW addresses where real data and additional information can be found. FEATURES · A truly modern approach to thermodynamics, presenting it as a science of irreversible processes whilst avoiding dividing the subject into equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. · An extensive range of applications drawn from science and engineering, along with many real world examples, and exercises. · Written by two well-known authors, of whom Professor llya Prigogine was awarded the Nobel Prize for his research into thermodynamics. CONTENTS: Part I: Historical Roots: From Heat Engines to Cosmology: Basic Concepts; First Law of Thermodynamics; Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Arrow of Time; Entropy in the Realm of Chemical Reactions; Part ll: Equilibrium Thermodynamics: Extremum Principles and General Thermodynamic Relations; Basic Thermodynamics of Gases, Liquids and Solids; Thermodynamics of Phase Change; Thermodynamics of Solutions; Thermodynamics of Chemical Transformations; Fields and Internal Degrees of Freedom; Thermodynamics of Radiation; Part III: Fluctuations and Stability: The Gibbs' Theory of Stability; Critical Phenomena and Configurational Heat Capacity; Theory of Stability and Fluctuations Based on Entropy Production; Part IV: Linear Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: The Foundations; Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: The Linear Regime; Nonequilibrium Stationary States and their Stability: Linear Regime; Part V: Order Through Fluctuations: Nonlinear Thermodynamics; Dissipative Structures; Postface: Where do we go from here?

Dilip Kondepudi

John Wiley&Sons

Order Out of Chaos

An acceptable copy. Tape repair to wraps at spine. General wear and price sticker to wraps. Light soiling to page edges. Pages are otherwise clean, tight. Forward by Alvin Toffler. A serviceable reading copy. B&amp;W illustrations

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Bantam]

From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences

The line from philosophy to science goes both directions, in both the temporal and spatial realms. The author of this book attempts to make some sense of that relationship.

From being to becoming: Time and complexity in the physical sciences

W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd

Unexpected discoveries in nonequilibrium physics and nonlinear dynamics are changing our understanding of complex phenomena. Recent research has revealed fundamental new properties of matter in far-from-equilibrium conditions, and the prevalence of instability-where small changes in initial conditions may lead to amplified effects.

Exploring Complexity

Gregoire Nicolis

W.H.Freeman & Company

The role of chaos in science and mathematics is examined in detail by the essays that comprise this work. Distinguished scholars specializing in mathematics, physics, and chemistry discuss the following subjects: Fractals, by Benoit Mandelbrot; The Causality Principle, Deterministic Laws and Chaos, by Heinz-Otto Peitgen; The Transition to Chaos, by Mitchell Feigenbaum; Time, Dynamics and Chaos: Integrating Poincare's 'Non-Integrable Systems', by Ilya Prigogine; What Is Chaos, by Steve Smale; Chaos and Cosmos: A Theological Approach, by John Polkinghorne; and Chaos and Beyond, by James Gleick. Introduction by John Holte. This volume is number 26 in the Nobel Conference Series. Co-published with the Nobel Conference.

Chaos: The New Science (Nobel Conference XXVI)

JAMES GLEICK

John Holte

Mitchell Feigenbaum

Benoit Mandelbrot

Mathematics

University Press of America

Modern Thermodynamics

Wiley & Sons, Limited, John

Ordning Ur Kaos

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