ISBN: 9780262191234 - ch'i: a neo-taoist approach to life (12 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good.

Zustand: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Good hardcover with dust jacket, from a private home collection. Markings. Shelfwear, some tears to DJ. NOT ex-lib. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

paperback. Zustand: Good. 1974 MIT 1st edition hardcover, VG/Acceptable DJ in Mylar, dustjacket has a 1-inch pass missing at top edge of spine, smaller piece missing at top edge, 2-inch tear at bottom corner, rubbing at edges, in new Mylar with price intact, front board has a small rub at top edge, mo markings found, sound binding, rear top corner slightly inturned. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. ISBN 0262191237. Hardback. Good to Very Good condition book, with slight browning to edges of interior pages, minor rubs to cover corners, faint waterspotting to top edge of book, in a Good Condition dustjacket with multiple small closed tears, chips, rubs and creases to edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No statement of later printing on copyright page. $10.00 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. yellow cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond., minor rubbing, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (NAP). xiii+351p.acknowlegements. references. index. oriental philosophy. taosim. ancient religion. science. philosophy of science. natural philosophy. lao tzu. physics. mathematics. ~ Dr. Siu's remarkably multifaceted erudition is made fully accessible to the general reader in this book ~ whether he's writing about ancient Chinese concepts of time or modern Western cosmological models ~ as he proceeds to outline a grand synthesis that involves an all inclusive integration of dual identities. Eastern and Western thought are joined, and so are the theoretical and the practical; the sciences and the arts; the physical and the biological; within physics, the continuum and the quantum; and within biology, the mechanistic and the vitalistic. The form of the book suggests a Chinese classic from the time of the Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu. A brief, epigrammatic Synoptic Text is followed by a series of more extended Commentaries in which the cryptic assertions of the Text are explicated, as if later scholars sought to reveal the full meanings of the atomic statements of the Text and the "ineffable essence" that holds them together and relates each to the others. The ultimate goal of this work of synthesis is to reveal the ch'i. Although the word is untranslatable, the nature of ch'i can be fleetingly glimpsed by intuition, and the adept neo~Taoist will be able to perceive it with clarity on achieving an "instantaneous apprehension of the totality." Its essence can be thought of as an ever~changing but never~ceasing flowing and confluence of Time, Light, and Life. Before arriving at this ultimate continuum, Dr. Siu examines its three components. The Commentaries on Time recapitulate man's progressive or cyclically recurring musings on the subject through time~by the primitives, the Hindus, the Chinese, the Persians, the Greeks, the Christians, the Western philosophers up to the time of Whitehead, Bergson, and the existentialists, and the creators of relativity and modern cosmological theories, including Einstein and Milne. The Commentaries on Light deal with the attempts to reconcile its corpuscular and wave aspects. Those on Life embrace such aspects as the origin and evolution of body and mind, the manifestations of rhythm, the anatomy of memory, the metabolism of time, extrasensory perception, and parabiological speculations.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a light skew to the binding, bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and a previous owner's penned name/date as well as a faded stamp to the first free end page. Overall, a solid, bright, Very Good+ copy in an unclipped, Very Good dust jacket, which has creasing and short tears to the spine ends, edges and corners, rubbing to the covers, and sunning to the spine. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar. …

Hard cover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Jacket heavily rubbed all over. Clean and unmarked inside other than previous owner's initials on inside front cover.