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This book seeks to bridge the gap between leading edge scholarship about the nature of the physical, tangible Universe and the nature of the life process on Earth on the one hand, and on the other hand challenges facing human society as to the current revolution in energy sources, national and international levels of political and economic organization, and humanity's impacts upon the global ecosystem which have given rise to the depiction of a new era in earthlife termed the "anthropocene".The author's public career included responsibilities for economic policy formulation and implementation at the United States Department of Justice, the United States Agency for International Development, and a White House Office of Consumer Affairs. This provided an elevated overview of many current economic and political issues.These responsibilities stimulated a multi-decade exploration of leading academics' insights into the relational structuring of the Universe, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, complexity in the universe, and the structure of the life process. This book applies such fundamental insights to the question whether humanity will succeed or fail in its ambitious but uncertain quest.

non equilibrium thermodynamics, life structure, anthropocene. --- SCIENCE / Mechanics / Thermodynamics.

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Multiphase flow --- Thermodynamic equilibrium. --- Mathematical models. --- Equilibrium, Thermal --- Equilibrium, Thermodynamic --- Equilibrium thermodynamics --- Thermal equilibrium --- Chemical equilibrium --- Thermodynamics

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Nonequilibrium thermodynamics. --- Quantum theory --- Irreversible thermodynamics --- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics --- Thermodynamics of the steady state --- Irreversible processes --- Thermodynamics

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Nonequilibrium thermodynamics --- Nonequilibrium thermodynamics. --- 536.7 --- 536.7 Thermodynamics. Energetics --- Thermodynamics. Energetics --- Irreversible thermodynamics --- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics --- Thermodynamics of the steady state --- Irreversible processes --- Thermodynamics

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Far-from-equilibrium phenomena, while abundant in nature, are not nearly as well understood as their equilibrium counterparts. On the theoretical side, progress is slowed by the lack of a simple framework, such as the Boltzmann-Gbbs paradigm in the case of equilibrium thermodynamics. On the experimental side, the enormous structural complexity of real systems poses serious obstacles to comprehension.Similar difficulties have been overcome in equilibrium statistical mechanics by focusing on model systems. Even if they seem too simplistic for known physical systems, models give us considerab

Statistical mechanics. --- Nonequilibrium thermodynamics. --- Irreversible thermodynamics --- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics --- Thermodynamics of the steady state --- Irreversible processes --- Thermodynamics --- Mechanics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Quantum statistics --- Statistical physics