Flowering of Civilization -- Deflowering of Culture
(Non-Kairos references)
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Empirical Findings from The Nature of Order. Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, 18, 2007, (1): 11-19.
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New Concepts in Complexity Theory: an overview of the four books of the Nature of Order with emphasis on the scientific problems which are raised. 2003 [text]
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Nick Barter. Metaphors that facilitate Organisational Understanding: reaching for the new and how machine and organism metaphors do not enable sustainable development. 2011 [text]
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David Bohm. Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Routledge, 1980 [summary]
Kenneth Boulding. Ecodynamics; a new theory of societal evolution. Sage, 1978
Karen A. Cerulo. Never Saw It Coming: cultural challenges to envisioning the worst. University of Chicago Press, 2006
John Cleverley. Deflowering the Cultural Revolution: Letter from China. Change, 9, 1977, 5, pp. 32-37 [text]
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The Mystery of Flowers: the sacred geometry of plants. Resurgence, 272, May/June 2012
Islamic Patterns: an analytical and cosmological approach. Inner Traditions, 1999
The Hidden Geometry of Flowers: living rhythms, form and number. Floris Books, 2011
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Flow: the psychology of optimal experience. Harper and Row, 1990
Antonio de Nicolas. Meditations through the Rg Veda: four-dimensional man. Nicolas Hays, 1976
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed. Penguin, 2005, [summary]
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War, Flowers, and Visual Culture: the First World War collection of the Australian War Memorial. Journal of the Australian War Memorial, 40, February 2007 [text]
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War and the Visual Language of Flowers: an antipodean perspective. War, Literature and the Arts, 20, 2008, 1-2, pp. 234-250 [text]
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/ . Surfaces and Essences: analogy as the fuel and fire of thinking. Basic Books, 2013.
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/ . Enantiostyly: solving the puzzle of mirror-image flowers. Nature, 417, June 2002, 707. [abstract]
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/ . Rhythms of Fragrance Emission in Flowers. Planta, 174, 1988, 2, pp 242-247. [abstract]
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/ / . The Floral Gap: where are the flowers in African culture?. 2004. [text]
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Steven M. Rosen. Dreams, Death, Rebirth: a multimedia topological odyssey into alchemy's hidden dimensions. 2013 [text]
Peter Russell. The White Hole in Time: our future evolution and the meaning of now. Harpercollins, 1993
Claudette Sartiliot. Herbarium Verbarium: the discourse of flowers. University of Nebraska Press, 1993
Mark Schantz. Awaiting the Heavenly Country: the Civil War and America's culture of death. Cornell University Press, 2008
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/ . Bankrupting Nature: denying our planetary boundaries. Routledge; 2012.
Frances Yates. The Art of Memory. University of Chicago Press, 2001