Foreword, G. Costa; creativity information, and change - new casual models, G. Kampis; the end of the crucial experiment - a neglected theme in the history of turn-of-the-century theoretical physics, S. D'Agostino; endomorphisms and visualization, R. Abraham; elementary chemical processes - how quantum and semiclassical mechanics avoid classical catastrophes and chaos, V. Aquilanti; discrete control variable in chemical chaos, N. Rahman; supramolecular chemistry, J.-M. Lehn; self-reproducting liposomes and chemical autopoiesis, P.L. Luisi and P. Walde; biological macromolecules and the phase transitions they bring about, A. Salam; programmable matter - a laboratory for learning what goes into creation, T. Toffoli; the concept of the individual in population and community risk assessment, T. Hallam; epistemological issues of science for the global environment, S.O. Funtowicz. (Part Contents).