Turning Point

Until recenlty, our view of the physical universe had been formed, for centuries, by the mechanistic thinking of Descarles and Newlon. New scientific concepts have overturned this world view, replacing it with a more holistic and ecological one that has afforded us deep insights into the nature of matter and its relation to the human mind.
About Author :
received his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna in 1966 and has since taught and researched theoretical high-energy physics at various European and American universities. He is currently researching at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and lecturing at the University of California at Berkeley. As well as publishing many technical research papers, Dr. Capra has written and lectured extensively about the philosophical implications of modern science. While living in London in the 1970s he wrote The Tao of Physics (also a Flamingo books), which became an international bestseller and has been translated into adozen languages.
Contents :
Author's Note Acknowledgements Preface Crisis and Transformation The Turning of the Tide The Two Paradigms The Newtonian World-Machine The New Physics The Influence of Cartesian-Newtonian Thought The Mechanistic View of Life The Biomedical Model Newtonian Psychology The Impasse of Economics The Dark Side of Growth The New Vision of Reality The Systems View of Life Wholeness and Health Journeys Beyond Space and Time The Passage to the Solar Age Notes Bibliography Index