Product Description: Revised and translated into English, 'Rosaluna' takes Enzo Tiezzi's previous book, 'Beauty and Science' to the next level. It contains categories that have long been separated and demonstrates a unity that is expressed in narrative form as Rosaluna...read more

Product Description: If thermodynamics is to physics as logic is to philosophy, recent theoretical advancements lend new coherence to the marvel and dynamism of life on Earth. Enzo TiezziÂ’s "Steps Towards an Evolutionary Physics" is a primer and guide, to those who would to stand on the shoulders of giants to attain this view: Heisenberg, Planck, Bateson, Varela, and Prigogine as well as notable contemporary scientists...read more

Product Description: Urban areas produce a series of environmental problems arising from the consumption of natural resources and the consequent generation of waste and pollution. These problems contribute to the development of social and economic imbalances...read more

Product Description: Technology subjugates the environment for economic purposes. Biotechnologies exploit life and living organisms. Science, now preoccupied with applied knowledge, has lost its ancient appreciation of beauty. In this book, the distinguished author argues that the aim of science should not be to dominate nature but to live in harmony with it...read more

Product Description: Exploring the latest experiences, achievements and state-of-the-art practices and methodologies in sustainability and the urban environment, this book contains 70 papers presented at the Third International Conference on the Sustainable City...read more

Product Description: The aim of the Fourth International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development was to integrate thermodynamics, ecology and economics into 'ecodynamics', an evolutionary approach emphasising that biodiversity is at the core of sustainability...read more

Product Description: With the ever-accelerating pace of daily life, the modern age seems to demand that science, too, should respond at speed. In this book Enzo Tiezzi highlights the continuity between the physical-mathematic and humanistic sciences...read more

Product Description: A best seller in Italy for two decades this influential title, which crucially and originally identified the core of ecological crisis in the difference between rapid technological tempos and slow biological tempos, has now been translated into English for the first time...read more

Product Description: An evaluation of the environmental and energy problems currently facing mankind, which outlines the dilemmas created by population overgrowth, resource depletion and environmental poisoning. The author argues that new political structures are required to confront pressing environmental challenges...read more

Product Description: A great debate has arisen about the necessity to distinguish between different physical chemistry approaches for investigating the behavior of natural systems. On the one side, it is necessary to recognize that the use of time-reversible classical and quantum physical chemistry approaches for studying molecular systems yields a big improvement in man's knowledge...read more