The Turning Point

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• Utopia (Limited)

  In his great work An American Dilemma (1944), Gunnar Myrdal praised the effort made by “a handful of social and biological scientists” to combat racism and hereditarianism—cultural prejudices once so pervasive that white intellectuals throughout the ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Sat, 28 Aug 2010

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  I met Fritjof Capra at a reading for 'The Web of Life' in Hampstead Heath some years ago and we chatted .. this book was first given to me by a friend in America years earlier and I was impressed enough to use it in several courses for philosophical debate .. unfortunately, he's one of those thinker ... (continue)

  I met Fritjof Capra at a reading for 'The Web of Life' in Hampstead Heath some years ago and we chatted .. this book was first given to me by a friend in America years earlier and I was impressed enough to use it in several courses for philosophical debate .. unfortunately, he's one of those thinkers whose ideas pushed the establishment into defensive mode though years later saw his arguments utilised as standard systems theory.

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  Wallacekevin said on Dec 5, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  The class I read this for was an interdisciplinary class (philosophy, science, and political science) and was the second finest class I took as an undergraduate.

  Capra's book was captivating. He presents a new paradigm, and that was the first time I realized that I could envision the world b ... (continue)

  The class I read this for was an interdisciplinary class (philosophy, science, and political science) and was the second finest class I took as an undergraduate.

  Capra's book was captivating. He presents a new paradigm, and that was the first time I realized that I could envision the world being different than it is now.

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  Batona said on Mar 26, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover 464 Pages
• ISBN-10: 067124423X
• ISBN-13: 9780671244231
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Pub date: Mar 01, 1982
• Also available as: Paperback

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