I have just been enlisted in a project to write a book documenting the last 40 years of work of the organization for which I used to work. So I dug into the back corner of my storage locker and retrieved five boxes of personal books, files, reports, etc. that I had packed up on my retirement 3.5 years ago.
One of the items I found I thought might be apropos for this group given this months PUG theme. The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart, Penguin Books, 1995. I recall that this was a good read, thought provoking. An exploration of how we humans clarify and simplify the complex world. And the dangers of a reductionist approach. Now that it has surfaced, it is on the top of my stack to read again. (BTW - the book had no relationship to my work. I had loaned it to someone else in the office, he returned it as I was packing up.) stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
