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Hardcover:

9780471062103 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, June 1, 1966, cover price $185.00

Paperback:

9780471948384 | Reprint edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 1, 1995), cover price $120.00

Miscellaneous:

9780470866061 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, December 7, 2000, cover price $115.00

The arguments in this fascinating, interdisciplinary book are wide-ranging, running the gamut from company management to the nature of consciousness. The author discusses the theory of team syntegrity and the social technique of syntegration which works in practice, offering a potent management tool for developmental planning.

Hardcover:

9780471944515 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, October 1, 1994, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: The arguments in this fascinating, interdisciplinary book are wide-ranging, running the gamut from company management to the nature of consciousness.

Miscellaneous:

9780470865927 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, December 7, 2000, cover price $130.00

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Product Description: Distinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics. His essays examine such issues as "The Real Threat to All We Hold Most Dear," "The Discarded Tools of Modern Man," "A Liberty Machine in Prototype," "Science in the Service of Man," "The Future That Can Be Demanded Now," and "The Free Man in a Cybernetic World...read more

Paperback:

9780887845475 | House of Anansi Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Distinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics.
9780471951650 | Reprint edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, December 14, 1994), cover price $115.00 | About this edition: "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.

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"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 Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA. "If . anyone can make it [Operations Research] understandably readable and positively interesting it is Stafford Beer . everyone in management . should be grateful to him for using clear and at times elegant English and . even elegant diagrams." The Economist This is the second edition of a book which has already become a management 'standard' both in universities and on the bookshelves of managers and their advisers. Brain of the Firm develops an account of the firm based upon insights derived from the study of the human nervous system, and is a basic text from the author's theory of viable systems. Despite the neurophysiology, the book is written for managers to understand. The companion volume to this book is The Heart of Enterprise, which is intended to support and complement this text. "Stafford Beer's works represent required reading for everyone who believes that a capacity for rigorous thinking is an essential attribute of today's successful managers and administrators. Brain of the Firm shows a first-rate intellect at work and provides concepts, models and inspiration for both practitioners and teachers." Sir Douglas Hague, CBE (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780471276876 | 2 sub edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, February 1, 1981), cover price $275.00 | also contains The Human Rights Fundaments of Conservation in the Context of the Extraction of Energy Resources | About this edition: "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.

Paperback:

9780471948391 | 2 edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 1, 1995), cover price $120.00

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Product Description: "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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9780471948377 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, December 14, 1994, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: "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.

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Product Description: "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...read more

Paperback:

9780471948407 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: "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.

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Product Description: "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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780471906759 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, August 1, 1985, cover price $88.50 | About this edition: "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.

Paperback:

9780471951360 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, March 1, 1995, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: "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.

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Traces humanity's efforts to understand the universe through computation and discusses number systems, coincidence, information, biotechnology, and measurement

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9780195405361 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1987, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Traces humanity's efforts to understand the universe through computation and discusses number systems, coincidence, information, biotechnology, and measurement

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