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| Preface to Third Edition | |
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| Preface to Second Edition | |
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| Preface to First Edition | |
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| What is it to be Alive? | |
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| The 'Big' Questions in Science | |
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| The Physicochemical Underpinnings of Life | |
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| On Being Alive | |
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| Do Organisms Contravene the Second Law? | |
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| Life and the Second Law | |
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| The Laws of Thermodynamics | |
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| Entropy as Disorder | |
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| Is Maxwell's Demon in the Living System? | |
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| Can the Second Law Cope with Organised Complexity? | |
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| The Space-Time Structure of Living Processes | |
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| The Second Law Restated | |
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| Quantum Molecular Machines in Living Systems | |
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| Energy Flow and Living Cycles | |
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| The Probability of Life | |
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| Energy Flow and Material Cycles | |
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| Dynamic Molecular Order from Energy Flow | |
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| A Theorem of Chemical Cycles | |
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| Coupled Cycles and the Steady State | |
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| The Many-Fold Coupled Cycles of Life | |
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| Energy Storage in the Biosphere | |
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| How to Catch a Falling Electron | |
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| Life and Negative Entropy | |
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| Free Energy and Entropy | |
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| Why Don't Organisms Live by Eating Diamonds? | |
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| What Kind of 'Engine' is the Organism? | |
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| 'Stored Energy' versus 'Free Energy' | |
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| Towards a Thermodynamics of Organised Complexity | |
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| The Continuing Enigma of Organisms | |
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| The Organism as an Energy Storage Domain | |
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| Energy Storage and Mobilisation is Symmetrical | |
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| Thermodynamics of the Steady State versus Thermodynamics of Organised Complexity | |
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| Superposition of Cyclic Non-Dissipative Processes Coupled to Dissipative Processes | |
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| The Principle of Internal Entropy Compensation and the Zero-Entropy Ideal of the Organism | |
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| Dynamic Closure and the Autonomy of Organisms | |
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| Exquisite Sensitivity and Freedom | |
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| Sustainable Systems as Organisms | |
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| Zero-Entropy Model of the Organism and Sustainable Systems | |
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| Zero-Entropy Model versus the Dominant Model of Infinite Growth | |
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| Space-time Differentiation, Biodiversity, Productivity, Resilience and Carrying Capacity | |
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| Deconstructing Money and the Bubble Economy | |
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| The Seventy-Three Octaves of Nature's Music | |
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| Reduction versus Integration | |
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| Electricity and Magnetism | |
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| The Electromagnetic Theory of Light and Matter | |
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| Molecular and Intermolecular Forces | |
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| Coherent Excitations of the Body Electric | |
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| Collective versus Statistical Behaviour | |
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| Non-Equilibrium Transitions to Dynamic Order | |
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| Coherent Excitations of the Body Electric | |
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| The Solid-State Cell | |
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| 'The Cataclysmic Violence of Homogenisation' | |
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| Molecular Resonance Recognition | |
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| Implications for Cell Biology | |
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| Self-Assembly and Living Organisation | |
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| The Meticulously Organised Cell | |
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| 'Life is a Little Electric Current' | |
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| Electrodynamical Through and Through | |
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| Electron Energies Band Together | |
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| The Body Electric Flows and Flows | |
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| How Coherent is the Organism? The Heartbeat of Health | |
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| How to Detect Coherence | |
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| Biological Rhythms and Coherence | |
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| Complex Music of the Healthy Heart | |
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| Fractal Heart Rhythm | |
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| Distinguishing Healthy from Unhealthy Heart Rhythms with Fractal Analysis | |
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| Multifractal Heart Rhythm | |
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| The Heart is Not a Solo Player in the Quantum Jazz of Life | |
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| Happiness is a Heartbeat Away | |
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| The Coherent Heart Rhythm of Positive Emotion | |
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| The Emotional and Physiological Modes of the Heart | |
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| Feeling Good is Good for You | |
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| The Heart is Far More Than a Mechanical Pump | |
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| How Coherent is the Organism? Sensitivity to Weak Electromagnetic Fields | |
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| Organisms Sensitive to Very Weak Electromagnetic Fields | |
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| Evidence of Non-Thermal Effects of Microwave Radiation from Mobile Phones | |
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| How Magnetic Field Can Affect Organisms | |
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| Life is All the Colours of the Rainbow in a Worm | |
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| Light and Living Matter | |
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| The Light That Through the Green Fuse | |
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| Long-Range Communication Between Cells and Organisms | |
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| Where do Biophotons Come From? | |
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| Life is All the Colours of the Rainbow in a Worm | |
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| The Liquid Crystalline Organism | |
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| The Mystery of Artemia - Life Without Energy Flow | |
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| Living versus Non-Living Matter | |
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| Liquid Crystals and Organisms | |
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| Rainbow Colours and Liquid Crystals | |
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| The Dynamic Liquid Crystalline Whole | |
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| Liquid Crystals and Pattern Determination | |
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| Crystal Consciousness | |
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| The Liquid Crystalline Continuum and Body Consciousness | |
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| Oriented Collagens and Intercommunication | |
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| Oriented Collagens and Body Consciousness | |
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| Crystal Memory | |
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| Coupled Body and Brain Consciousness | |
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| The Unity of Conscious Experience | |
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| Quantum Coherence and Conscious Experience | |
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| Liquid Crystalline Water | |
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| Weird and Wonderful Water | |
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| Two-States Model of Water | |
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| The Chaplin Model | |
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| Model Fits Well with Data | |
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| Colloid Crystals | |
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| First Sightings of Structured Water | |
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| Seeing is Believing | |
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| Positive Electricity Zaps Up and Down Water Chains | |
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| Liquid Crystalline Acupuncture Meridians Revisited | |
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| Collagen Organising Proton Cables | |
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| Fire and Water | |
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| Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation Mediated by Liquid Crystalline Water? | |
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| Quantum Entanglement and Coherence | |
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| Nature is Quantum, Really | |
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| Wave-Particle Duality: Which Slit Did the Buckyball Go Through? | |
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| Quantum Superposition and the Uncertainty Principle | |
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| The EPR Paradox and Quantum Entanglement | |
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| Quantum Coherence | |
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| Quantum Coherence and Living Organisation | |
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| The Universe is Quantum and Coherent | |
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| Quantum Coherence Survives Weak Measurements | |
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| Universal Quantum Entanglement | |
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| Ignorance of the External Observer | |
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| The Meaning of Life and All That | |
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| Is Entropy Subjective? | |
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| Entropy and Information | |
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| Information, Entropy, Order and Knowledge | |
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| Ignorance of the External Observer | |
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| Time and Freewill | |
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| There is No Glass Bead Game | |
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| Bergson's 'Pure Duration' | |
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| Whitehead's 'Organism' and Bohm's 'Implicate Order' | |
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| Space-time Structure and Quantum Theory | |
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| Organisms as Coherent Space-Time Structures | |
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| Organic Space-Time and Fractal Space-Time | |
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| Determinism and Freewill | |
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| References | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| Author Index | |