Are living organisms--as Descartes argued--just machines? Or is the nature of life such that it can never be fully explained by mechanistic models? In this thought-provoking and controversial book, eminent geophysicist Walter M. Elsasser argues that the behavior of living organisms cannot be reduced to physico-chemical causality. Suggesting that molecular biology today is at the same point as Newtonian physics on the eve of the quantum revolution, Elsasser lays the foundation for a theoretical biology that points the way toward a natural philosophy of organic life.
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Are living organisms--as Descartes argued--just machines? Or is the nature of life such that it can never be fully explained by mechanistic models?...
International Technology Transfers: Legal Aspects provides businesspersons and legal practitioners with a practical conceptual framework for the analysis and implementation of cross-border technology transactions, as well as alerting potential parties to technology transfers to the salient issues they should systematically confront and resolve as they seek to structure and implement their transaction. Particular attention is devoted to the identification of traps in the path of successful international technology transfer. The term technology' is used in this book in its broadest possible...
International Technology Transfers: Legal Aspects provides businesspersons and legal practitioners with a practical conceptual framework for the analy...
