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Living in Hawaii is a privilege 11 year old Sarah Finner has enjoyed throughout her young life. She has been blessed with a family that has made many sacrifices to offer her a home in paradise, that most would only dream about. This care free life style is about to be tested, when the Finner family is struck by tragedy! Sarah and her family must pull together, along with their little dog Smokey to keep the Hawaii dream alive. This family's perseverance and creativity is a testament that, anyone can overcome life's obstacles.

Challenges modern ideas on the interaction of science, nature and human culture, with far-reaching consequences for how we govern our world. This book proposes that, in order for us to work with nature to achieve true sustainability on our planet, we need to adopt a new science, art, design, economics and patterns of responsibility.

Do genes explain life? Can advances in evolutionary and molecular biology account for what we look like, how we behave, and why we die? In this powerful intervention into current biological thinking, Brian Goodwin argues that such genetic reductionism has important limits.

Drawing on the sciences of complexity, the author shows how an understanding of the self-organizing patterns of networks is necessary for making sense of nature. Genes are important, but only as part of a process constrained by environment, physical laws, and the universal tendencies of complex adaptive...