Books

Professor Gánti published 24 books, the majority in Hungarian, the most important ones also in English, but also in Russian and Polish. Among them, the „Principles of life” in 7 editions. In this part we show a short information about the content of the books, the opinions of reviewers and the downloadable versions. In their original form, they can be found in the Archiv of City Vác. According to Professor Gánti: „I wrote my scientific books with my brain, the „Disappearing Islands” and the "On the bosom of nature" with my heart, and the „Hermit piglet” with my soul.”

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The list of book reviews will also be provided.

 

Forradalom az élet kutatásában
Revolution in research of life

Gondolat, Budapest, 1966 (In Hungarian)

 

Az élet princípiuma
The Principle of Life

Gondolat, Budapest, 1971 (In Hungarian)
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Gondolat, Budapest, 1978 (Revised edition)
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Kriterion, Bucurest, 1979 (In Hungarian)
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OMIKK, Budapest, 1983 (In Hungarian)
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Wiezda Powszechna, Warsawa, 1986 (In Polish)
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OMIKK, Budapest, 1987 (In English)
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The Principles of Life
With a commentary by J. Griesemer and E. Szathmáry
Oxford, University Press, 2003
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A kvarkoktól a galaktikus társadalmakig
From quarks to galactical societies

Kossuth, Budapest, 1975 (In Hungarian)
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A Theory of Biochemical Supersystems and its Application to Problems of Natural and Artificial Biogenesis
Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1979
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University Park Press, Baltimore, 1979
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Az élet és születése
Life and its birth

Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest, 1980 (In Hungarian)
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Prosveschenie, Moscow, 1984 (In Russian)
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Eltűnő szigetek
Vanishing islands

Natura, Budapest, 1983 (In Hungarian)
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Chemoton elmélet 1. kötet: A fluid automaták elméleti alapjai
Chemoton theory, Volume I: Theoretical foundation of fluid automata

OMIKK, Budapest, 1984 (In Hungarian)
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Chemoton elmélet 2. kötet: Az élő rendszerek elmélete
Chemoton theory, Volume II: Theory of living systems

OMIKK, Budapest, 1989 (In Hungarian)
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Kontra Crick, avagy az élet mivolta
Contra Crick that is: the nature of life

Gondolat, Budapest, 1989 (In Hungarian)
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A remetesüldő
The hermit piglet (and the Spinster)

Kogitátor, Budapest,1992 (In Hungarian)
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Váci eltűnő szigetek
The Vanishing Islands at Vác

Vác, 1994
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Az élet általános elmélete
General theory of life

Műszaki könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2000 (In Hungarian)
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Chemoton Theory. Vol. I.
Theory of Fluid Mashineries

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New-York, 2003
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Chemoton Theory. Vol. II.
Theory of Living Systems.

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New-York, 2003
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A természet kebelén
On the bosom of nature

Novum Verlag, Sopron, 2009
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Visegrád - A fellegvár az felleg-vár
Visegrád - The citadel - Castle in the clouds

Kucsák Nyomda, Vác, 2010
/ Posthumous Release /
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Books with co-authors:

The Origin of Life: New Research and New Results
In: Actual Problems of Biology. Vol.I. (Ed: Gy. Csaba)
Medicina, 1974. p.45-90. (In Hungarian)

Selfregulation and Selforganization of Molecular Supersystems
In: Biological Regulation (Ed: Gy. Csaba)
Medicina, Budapest, 1978. p.37-73. (In Hungarian)

The essence of the living state
In: Defining Life: The central problem in Theoretical biology (M.Rizotti, ed.) pp. 103-117.
University of Padova, Padova, 1996

The Genesis of the Genom
The conditions of Life
In: The Genom. (Ed: E. Hidvégi).
Széphalom Könyvműhely, Budapest, 2003 (In Hungarian)