--- product_id: 66761711 title: "Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns" price: "C$2707" currency: NIO in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ni/products/66761711-small-arcs-of-larger-circles-framing-through-other-patterns store_origin: NI region: Nicaragua --- # Systems & symmathesy insights 84 rave reviews 4.7/5 reader rating Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns **Price:** C$2707 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ“– Dive into the arcs that connect our complex worldβ€”think deeper, feel richer. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns - **How much does it cost?** C$2707 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ni](https://www.desertcart.ni/products/66761711-small-arcs-of-larger-circles-framing-through-other-patterns) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Highly Acclaimed:** Top-rated with 4.7 stars from 84 thoughtful readers, a must-have for curious minds. - β€’ **Engaging & Playful Tone:** Invitational writing style that makes complex ideas accessible and enjoyable. - β€’ **Legacy of Thought Leadership:** Continue the Bateson tradition with cutting-edge systems thinking and symmathesy. - β€’ **Versatile Reading Experience:** Perfect for deep study or casual dipsβ€”your lifelong companion for intellectual growth. - β€’ **Multidimensional Perspectives:** Essays and poems spanning ecology, philosophy, education, and social complexity. ## Overview Small Arcs of Larger Circles by Nora Bateson is a compelling collection of essays and poems that advances systems thinking and symmathesy, building on the Bateson intellectual legacy. With a 4.7-star rating from 84 reviews, it offers a unique blend of academic rigor and poetic insight across ecology, education, and social sciences, making it an essential read for professionals seeking to understand complexity in modern life. ## Description This is a collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson and president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI). Building on Gregory Bateson's famous book Towards an Ecology of Mind and her own film on the subject, Nora Bateson here updates our thinking on systems and ecosystems, applying her own insights and those of her team at IBI to education, organisations, complexity, academia, and the way that society organizes itself. She also introduces the term symmathesy to describe the contextual mutual learning through interaction that takes place in living entities at larger or smaller scales. While she retains her father's rigorous attention to definition, observation and academic precision, she also moves well beyond that frame of reference to incorporate more embodied ways of knowing and understanding. These are reflected in her essays and poems on food, Christmas, love, honesty, environmentalism and leadership. [Subject: Systems thinking, education, social anthropology, environmentalism, Bateson, symmathesy] Review: Embracing the complexities and wholeness. - I sometimes hold a notion that an anthology of poems might be the way to map the universe in its diversity. Each small piece would capture aspects, yet the anthology holds together the myriad ways the poems explore things in a unity that is sometimes clear, sometimes less so. This book might be considered that anthology. Nora Bateson writes with the intention of carrying on a family tradition. Her father was the anthropologist and cyberneticist, Gregory Bateson who sometimes talked about the "path which connects. Her work includes a film about him. In the book she talks about this and her grandfather William Beteson who was a Professor of Biology at Cambridge with achievements of his own, and how she is continuing to expand this legacy. But of course she is aiming for more. The essays and poems in this book look at a range of matters from ecology, philosophy, economics as well as experience of body, attitudes to nature, the complexities of human nature, bringing up children, rape and science. Many of the poems and prose poems capture moments, feelings and dillemas. In short this is a stunning survey of the contemporary existence written with a stunning brevity and precision. Each one is an arc of the larger circle which each piece is a fragment of. Such diversity perhaps has a problem that read as a whole it risks becoming too diffuse. But this is no more than any other anthology of verse or articles. The book it self could either be read as a whole or dipped in at random, like such volumes. There is scarcely a dud. This is a book to keep at one's side for a lifetime of wealth. There is much to enjoy here as well as a large sum of enlightenment. Review: Delightful depths - Where can the lineage of Bateson thinking go after William Bateson's foundational contributions and after Gregory Bateson's books? To read this book is to be part of that adventure. At one level it is a garden of very diverse delights. At the next level the reader has no option but to work on what connects them. There is no authorial grandstanding here, the tone is consistently invitational and playful. The book is not about information you need to know it is an exploration of ways of thinking and feeling that are both deeply necessary and fun. I can't recommend this book highly enough. ## Features - New Store Stock ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 225,308 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 6,509 in Philosophy (Books) 34,269 in Social Sciences (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 84 Reviews | ## Images ![Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61Sx9WoBERS.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Embracing the complexities and wholeness. *by G***Y on 27 November 2017* I sometimes hold a notion that an anthology of poems might be the way to map the universe in its diversity. Each small piece would capture aspects, yet the anthology holds together the myriad ways the poems explore things in a unity that is sometimes clear, sometimes less so. This book might be considered that anthology. Nora Bateson writes with the intention of carrying on a family tradition. Her father was the anthropologist and cyberneticist, Gregory Bateson who sometimes talked about the "path which connects. Her work includes a film about him. In the book she talks about this and her grandfather William Beteson who was a Professor of Biology at Cambridge with achievements of his own, and how she is continuing to expand this legacy. But of course she is aiming for more. The essays and poems in this book look at a range of matters from ecology, philosophy, economics as well as experience of body, attitudes to nature, the complexities of human nature, bringing up children, rape and science. Many of the poems and prose poems capture moments, feelings and dillemas. In short this is a stunning survey of the contemporary existence written with a stunning brevity and precision. Each one is an arc of the larger circle which each piece is a fragment of. Such diversity perhaps has a problem that read as a whole it risks becoming too diffuse. But this is no more than any other anthology of verse or articles. The book it self could either be read as a whole or dipped in at random, like such volumes. There is scarcely a dud. This is a book to keep at one's side for a lifetime of wealth. There is much to enjoy here as well as a large sum of enlightenment. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Delightful depths *by A***R on 3 November 2016* Where can the lineage of Bateson thinking go after William Bateson's foundational contributions and after Gregory Bateson's books? To read this book is to be part of that adventure. At one level it is a garden of very diverse delights. At the next level the reader has no option but to work on what connects them. There is no authorial grandstanding here, the tone is consistently invitational and playful. The book is not about information you need to know it is an exploration of ways of thinking and feeling that are both deeply necessary and fun. I can't recommend this book highly enough. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ enjoy the touches of beauty *by H***H on 26 December 2016* Where to begin? Nora Bateson delicately weaves between poetry, autobiography, the influence of her father Gregory Bateson and grandfather William Bateson and other thinkers, ecology, gender, and other topics to create a version of what she describes as symmathesy; contextual mutual learning through interaction, which as readers, we are invited to participate in. Buy this book; dip in and out, enjoy the touches of beauty, the challenges and at times, the raw honesty. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ni/products/66761711-small-arcs-of-larger-circles-framing-through-other-patterns](https://www.desertcart.ni/products/66761711-small-arcs-of-larger-circles-framing-through-other-patterns) --- *Product available on Desertcart Nicaragua* *Store origin: NI* *Last updated: 2026-09-07*