'This
splendid and thoughtful book is an
essential
guide for anyone inquiring about
the
place of science and metascience in our
contemporary
culture'
JIM
LOVELOCK, NEW SCIENTIST
Our
clinging to the mechanistic world view
of
Newton and Descartes has brought us
perilously
dose to destruction. Fritjof
Capra
shows
how these ideas are now obselete and
looks
forward to a new vision more consistent
with
the findings of modem physics,
as
described in his innovative and
controversial
bestseller, The Tao of Physics:
a
holistic, systems-based approach which in
this
book he extends to include important
areas
of contemporary life - medicine,
psychology,
economics, political science and
ecology
as well as physics. We are in
effect at a
'turning
point’ in all aspects of our culture.
'essential
reading’
R.
D. LAING
'Capra
develops his case with remarkable clarity’
GUARDIAN
'One
of the most important books of the decade'
JOHN
GRIBBIN