Self-Organization and Dissipative Structures: Applications in the Physical and Social SciencesThe contributions to this volume attempt to apply different aspects of Ilya Prigogine's Nobel prize winning work on dissipative structures to nonchemical systems as a way of linking the natural and social sciences. They address both the mathematical methods for description of pattern and form as they evolve in biological systems and the mechanisms of the evolution of social systems, containing many variables responding to subjective, qualitative