"Refreshingly bold in his approach, the author is not merely concerned with the "advantages" or "attractiveness" of multidisciplinary approaches to contemporary problems. Rather, he argues in a robust manner for the necessity of multidisciplinary discourse. . . . The book is written in an accessible style that is far from dry and, without sliding into flippancy, pithy humour is evident throughout."—Patrick J. J. Phillips --- "This very important book provides a careful look at the inadequacies of our present approach to understanding and learning. There has been an explosion of work focusing on complexity, but Kline does what most of this work does not do: he both identifies the deficiencies of reductionism and provides a structure for moving toward complexity." —Don E. Kash, George Mason University --- "This very valuable book presents a stunning case for the necessity of multidisciplinary studies. It demonstrates, through impressive quantitative and logical argument, that reductionist paradigms are insufficient to tackle the compelling questions raised by highly complex systems—much less to solve most of the problems facing today's college students."—Bryan Pfaffenberger, University of Virginia