{"product_id":"the-life-and-behavior-of-living-organisms-9780275975012","title":"The Life and Behavior of Living Organisms","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents an understanding of the individual and social behaviour of living organisms. It shows that research into work organizations led to the realization that the difference between inanimate processes and living behaviour is that living behaviour is composed of intentional goal-directed work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e What Is Life? Overview \u003cb\u003eA Half Century of Findings on Work, Complexity, and Capability\u003c\/b\u003e Work as Goal-directed Choice (laboro ergo sum) Complexity and Capability in Living Organisms \u003cb\u003eLaying the Groundwork\u003c\/b\u003e Awareness, Signaling, Language and Other Basic Concepts Minds, Bodies, Reductionism, and Systems Theory Potential and Applied Capability Throughout the Living Kingdom \u003cb\u003eLife in the Pre-Linguistic World\u003c\/b\u003e The Choice Making Functions of All Living Organisms The Whole Organism and Its Parts The Organism in Action Reality in the Sensible World as Cause-and-effect Testing \u003cb\u003eThe Language-Suffused World of Humans\u003c\/b\u003e The Evolutionary Emergence of Homo Sapiens, with Language and Consciousness The Fruits of Evolution The Spread of Homo Sapiens Across the World The Language Suffused World: Prometheus, Pandora, and the Unicorns Modern Alchemy and the Disruption of Capitalist Democracy \u003cb\u003eTime, Science, and Freedom\u003c\/b\u003e Toward a Science-based Art of Social Ordering Values for a Living World: Freedom and Constraint, and Mutual Trust and Morals Some Retrospective Musings Glossary Bibliography Index","brand":"ABC-CLIO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767223222615,"sku":"9780275975012","price":94.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780275975012.jpg?v=1758712574","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-life-and-behavior-of-living-organisms-9780275975012","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}