Re: Does anyone have information...

["Judith Rosen" <***>]

Thanks for all the input, Folks. Just to clarify: Life, Itself actually is
already marketed as part of the "complexity in ecology" series that Columbia
U. Press puts out. I think it ought to be marketed as general science,
personally, but my father would say he doesn't care what they hell they call
it. He generally laughed at stuff like that-- which was part of the total
lack of interest with which he treated any and all marketing considerations.
It was partly why I said there was a tiny grain of truth to the accusations
of "stupidity". Again, underneath it all, I knew exactly why he felt that
way, and I respect it. His attitude wasn't really "stupid", it was just not
in the same realm as marketing considerations. If he cared about the
"performance" of the book, then his attitude would have been stupid!

Part of the reason that these works are so little known, aside from what I
listed above, is that his work was parcelled out amongst countless little
disciplines. A paper for a Systems Theory meeting would appear under that
heading, a paper for a Physiology meeting would be published in that kind of
venue..... I've already mentioned the unfortunate lack of cross pollination
between disciplines; the fact that MD's for example rarely subscribe to
Systems Theory journals, or Biology journals, or Ecology journals. And that
seems to be true across all boundaries and disciplines. It takes a rare
physicist to see something in a quick scanning of one of my father's books
to notice the overwhelming cross-applicability in Life, Itself or one of the
others..... And that's assuming a physicist gets to the scanning stage! The
internet even categorizes things such that a google search on a subject will
not list stuff that doesn't conform so some programed idea of the definition
of that subject. You have to reword your search subject a few different ways
and then you might get, in three different searches, some idea of what's
available. But maybe not.

I am beginning to think what's required are little guides to Rosennean
Theory, defining the terms and pointing out the cross-applicability
potential in the parlance of each discipline, such that there will be "The
Ecologist's Guide", "The Medical Doctor's Guide", "The Physicist's
Guide".... etc.

Judith