Chronicle of cybernetics pioneers

Cybernetics: Cybernetics and the Theory of Knowledge

Cybernetics

pared, and the successive stages of implantation and placental formation in various mammals are compared with those in man. Although the authors have quite successfully attempted to keep the book as short as possible, they have succeeded in putting much of great value in it with the result that it can be highly recommended. No biological library is complete without a copy of this excellent acco...

Cybernetics and Second-Order Cybernetics

I. Historical Development of Cybernetics.......................................................1 A. Origins.....................................................................................1 B. Second Order Cybernetics............................................................2 C. Cybernetics Today.....................................................................4 II. Relational Concepts...

Chronicle from Aldgate

A few minor flaws in the book, such as improper uise of some terms and lack of explanatory footnotes in one or two important tables, could lhave been eliminated by stricter editing; these are, however, inconsequtential defects. The volume is a valuable, useful and on the wlhole readable account of the investigations between 1967 an(d 1969 into the Marburg virus disease. This work is concernied ...

Psychoanalytic Pioneers

Psychoanalysis as a living, growing science is illumined brightly by this examination of the biographies of its foremost exponents. Forty individuals are presented, ranging from early workers such as Abraham, Ferenczi, Jung and Adler to contemporary thinkers such as Alexander, Hartmann, Anna Freud and Erikson. Two additional chapters deal with special developments in the U.SA. and Eng-land. The...