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An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

RRP: £23 Paperback: 279 pages Publisher: Dorset House Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.; 25 Silver anniversary ed edition (15 April 2001) ISBN-10: 0932633498 For more than twenty-five years, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking has been hailed as an innovative introduction to systems theory, with applications in computer science and beyond. Used in university courses and professional seminars all...
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An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

RRP: £23 Paperback: 279 pages Publisher: Dorset House Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.; 25 Silver anniversary ed edition (15 April 2001) ISBN-10: 0932633498 For more than twenty-five years, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking has been hailed as an innovative introduction to systems theory, with applications in computer science and beyond. Used in university courses and professional seminars all...
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Notes on the Synthesis of Form

RRP: £23.75 Paperback: 216 pages; Publisher: Harvard University Press; New Ed edition (1 July 1974) ISBN: 9780674627512 A physical quantity can be expressed as the product of a number and a physical unit. A formula expresses a relationship between physical quantities. A necessary condition for a formula to be valid is that all terms have the same dimension, meaning every term in the formula could...
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Notes on the Synthesis of Form

RRP: £23.75 Paperback: 216 pages; Publisher: Harvard University Press; New Ed edition (1 July 1974) ISBN: 9780674627512 A physical quantity can be expressed as the product of a number and a physical unit. A formula expresses a relationship between physical quantities. A necessary condition for a formula to be valid is that all terms have the same dimension, meaning every term in the formula could...
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Brain of the Firm

RRP: £45 Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2 edition (16 May 1995) ISBN: 047194839X "Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world's most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know." Dr Russell L Ackoff, The...
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Brain of the Firm

RRP: £45 Paperback: 432 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2 edition (16 May 1995) ISBN: 047194839X "Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world's most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know." Dr Russell L Ackoff, The...
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Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind

RRP: £44.53 Paperback : 208 pages ISBN : 0856440086 Publisher : Earth Island (1 Mar. 1972) Language: : English The Limits to Growth (LTG) is a 1972 report on the exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation. Commissioned by the Club of Rome, the findings of the study were first presented at international gatherings in Moscow and Rio...
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Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind

RRP: £44.53 Paperback : 208 pages ISBN : 0856440086 Publisher : Earth Island (1 Mar. 1972) Language: : English The Limits to Growth (LTG) is a 1972 report on the exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation. Commissioned by the Club of Rome, the findings of the study were first presented at international gatherings in Moscow and Rio...