The End of Certainty
In this intellectually challenging book, Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine tackles some of the  difficult questions that bedevil physicists trying to provide an explanation for the world we observe. How is  it, for instance, that basic principles of quantum mechanics--which lack any differentiation between  forward and backward directions in time--can explain a world with an "arrow of time" headed  unambiguously forward? And how do we escape classical physics' assertion that the world is deterministic?  In a sometimes mathematical and frequently mind-bending book, Prigogine explores deterministic chaos,  nonequilibrium thermodynamics, and even cosmology and the origin of the universe in an attempt to reach  an explanation that can reconcile physical laws with subjective reality.