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Research Studies Press Action in Ecosystems Biothermodynamics for Sustainability 2001 Edition by Ivan R. Kennedy
Based on observations of experimental biological and environmental data from his 35 years of experience as an environmental scientist, rather than on physical or mathematical abstraction, Kennedy (U. of Sydney) introduces the concept of action as a thermodynamic property related to entropy. He argues that no natural object should be examined in isolation, because every one, to some measure, is affected by everything else, and that nature generally works by the simplest possible mechanism. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)