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  title info:
    title: Systems Thinkers
  name:
    name part: Ramage, Magnus.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Shipp, Karen.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 316 p. 8 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Systems Thinkers presents a biographical history of the field of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers. It discusses each thinker’s key contributions, the way this contribution was expressed in practice and the relationship between their life and ideas. This discussion is supported by an extract from the thinker’s own writing, to give a flavour of their work and to give readers a sense of which thinkers are most relevant to their own interests. Systems thinking is necessarily interdisciplinary, so that the thinkers selected come from a wide range of areas – biology, management, physiology, anthropology, chemistry, public policy, sociology and environmental studies among others. Some are core innovators in systems ideas; some have been primarily practitioners who also advanced and popularised systems ideas; others are well-known figures who drew heavily upon systems thinking although it was not their primary discipline. A significant aim of the book is to broaden and deepen the reader’s interest in systems writers, providing an appetising ‘taster’ for each of the 30 thinkers, so that the reader is encouraged to go on to study the published works of the thinkers themselves.
  table of contents: Early Cybernetics -- Gregory Bateson -- Norbert Wiener -- Warren McCulloch -- Margaret Mead -- W. Ross Ashby -- General Systems Theory -- Ludwig von Bertalanffy -- Kenneth Boulding -- Geoffrey Vickers -- Howard Odum -- System Dynamics -- Jay Forrester -- Donella Meadows -- Peter Senge -- Soft and Critical Systems -- C. West Churchman -- Russell Ackoff -- Peter Checkland -- Werner Ulrich -- Michael Jackson -- Later Cybernetics -- Heinz von Foerster -- Stafford Beer -- Humberto Maturana -- Niklas Luhmann -- Paul Watzlawick -- Complexity Theory -- Ilya Prigogine -- Stuart Kauffman -- James Lovelock -- Learning Systems -- Kurt Lewin -- Eric Trist -- Chris Argyris -- Donald Schön -- Mary Catherine Bateson.
  note: by Magnus Ramage, Karen Shipp.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Application software
  subject:
    topic: Computers and civilization
  subject:
    topic: Management information systems
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Computers and Society
  subject:
    topic: Management of Computing and Information Systems
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science, general
  classification: QA76.76.A65
  classification: 004
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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