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Title: General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications by Ludwig, Von Bertalanffy ISBN: 0-8076-0453-4 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: 01 March, 1976 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A book for the development of system ideas.
Comment: This book is quite old now and shows some of its age. At the time the idea of system theory was new and invigorating although it still appears that the theory was not radically new by any means even then.
Bertalanffy discusses the idea of a system mainly through dynamical systems in his early chapters but also discusses important issues such as open systems, teleology and the organism considered as a system. By no means does this remove the dogma of the reductionists but the whole idea can be incorporated within it by some adjustments and expansions of the original concept. In that sense it is still possible for a biologist to consider animals and plants as complex machines. Nothing in this book really forces anyone to onsider an alternative.
On the other hand his later chapters from chapter 8 onwards discuss truly fascinating questions in psychology and the study of language especially noting the work of Whorf. It is these last chapters which make the book interesting. In its day it would have been something that evoked interest and fascination but now its the as yet unexplord aspects of the study of man which remain as they have always been an enigma and a source of endless wonder.
A book for the development of system ideas.
Rating: 5
Summary: The system behind the system, are you aware of?
Comment: A very important body of knowledge for anyone.
Have you ever said "the current system is wrong" but never known a definitive answer?
This book lays a base for understanding the system behind the system.
Rating: 2
Summary: Of historical interest
Comment: Somewhat outdated, rehashed and self aggrandizing. More historical than cutting edge. You can do better!!
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Title: The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences) by Ervin Laszlo, Hampton Pr ISBN: 1572730536 Publisher: Hampton Press, Incorporated Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg ISBN: 0932633498 Publisher: Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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Title: Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity : A Platform for Designing Business Architecture ISBN: 0750671637 Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Pub. Date: 10 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener ISBN: 026273009X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1965 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The "Thinking" in Systems Thinking: Seven Essential Skills by Barry Richmond ISBN: 188382348X Publisher: Pegasus Communications Pub. Date: 05 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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