We have the capacity to go directly to truth and awakening, but we often get sidetracked by our delusions.As a teacher and philosopher John de Ruiter says, "We have the capacity to use our faculties to convince ourselves of something being true, because we need for that to be true. So, there's a hanging on within the heart supported by an intellectual framework that enables that to happen. But, beyond all of that, we know something quieter, and it is that we don't actually need...

John Eliot Gardiner groeide letterlijk op onder een van de twee schilderijen die er van Johann Sebastian Bach bekend zijn: het hing in zijn ouderlijk huis. Geen wonder dat juist die componist hem is blijven fascineren. Gardiner heeft als dirigent talloze malen werken van Bach uitgevoerd, en hij wordt beschouwd als een van de grootste interpreten ervan. Zijn levenslange omgang met Bach is uitgemond in een boek waarin hij al zijn eruditie en hartstocht heeft aangewend om zo veel mogelijk gre...

This novel book bridges the gap between the energetic and species approaches to studying food webs, addressing many important topics in ecology. Species, matter, and energy are common features of all ecological systems. Through the lens of complex adaptive systems thinking, the authors explore how the inextricable relationship between species, matter, and energy can explain how systems are structured and how they persist in real and model systems. Food webs are viewed as open and dynamic s...

Presenting new approaches to studying food webs, this book uses practical management and policy examples to demonstrate the theory behind ecosystem management decisions and the broader issue of sustainability. All the information that readers need to use food web analyses as a tool for understanding and quantifying transition processes is provided. Advancing the idea of food webs as complex adaptive systems, readers are challenged to rethink how changes in environmental conditions affect t...