{"title":"Science--System Theory","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"thinking-in-systems-international-bestseller","title":"Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe classic book on systems thinking--with more than half a million copies sold worldwide!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is a fabulous book... 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Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome of the biggest problems facing the world--war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation--are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. 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