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22 produkter

Cats' Paws and Catapults
Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
Av Steven Vogel
Häftad, 2000
336 kr
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Nature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials and use them in the same air and water, pulled by the same gravity. Why, then, do their designs diverge so sharply? Humans, for instance, love right angles, while nature's angles are rarely right and usually rounded. Our …
Vital Circuits
On Pumps, Pipes, and the Workings of Circulatory Systems
Av Steven Vogel
E-bok, 1993
820 kr
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Most of us think about our circulatory system only when something goes wrong, but the amazing story of how it goes right--"magnificently right," as author Steven Vogel puts it--is equally worthy of our attention. It is physically remarkable, bringing food to (and removing waste from) a hundred …
Vital Circuits
On Pumps, Pipes, and the Workings of Circulatory Systems
Av Steven Vogel
E-bok, 1992
820 kr
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Most of us think about our circulatory system only when something goes wrong, but the amazing story of how it goes right--"magnificently right," as author Steven Vogel puts it--is equally worthy of our attention. It is physically remarkable, bringing food to (and removing waste from) a hundred …
Life of a Leaf
Av Steven Vogel
Häftad, 2013
290 kr
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In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world that both limits what …
Why the Wheel Is Round
Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move
Av Steven Vogel
Inbunden, 2016
333 kr
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There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet, there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel a rotational mechanism that accomplishes what our physical form cannot. Throughout history, …
Why the Wheel Is Round
Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move
Av Steven Vogel
Häftad, 2018
211 kr
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There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates—be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel—a rotational mechanism that accomplishes what our physical form cannot. Throughout history, …
Thinking like a Mall
Av Steven Vogel
E-bok, 2015
361 kr
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A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the built environment. Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached “the end of nature,” as Bill …
Thinking like a Mall
Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature
Av Steven Vogel
Häftad, 2016
457 kr
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Prime Mover
A Natural History of Muscle
Av Steven Vogel
Häftad, 2003
321 kr
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Whether we blink an eye, lift a finger, throw a spear or a ball, walk, run, or merely breathe, we are using muscle. Although muscles differ little in appearance and performance across the animal kingdom, they accomplish tasks as diverse as making flies fly, rattlesnakes rattle, and squid shoot …
Life in Moving Fluids
The Physical Biology of Flow - Revised and Expanded Second Edition
Av Steven Vogel
Häftad, 1996
823 kr
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Both a landmark text and reference book, Steven Vogel's Life in Moving Fluids has also played a catalytic role in research involving the applications of fluid mechanics to biology. In this revised edition, Vogel continues to combine humor and clear explanations as he addresses biologists and …
Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds
Av Steven Vogel
Häftad, 2009
574 kr
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Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds offers an eye-opening look into how the characteristics of the physical world drive the designs of animals and plants. These characteristics impose limits but also create remarkable and subtle opportunities for the functional biology of organisms. In …
Comparative Biomechanics
Life's Physical World - Second Edition
Av Steven Vogel
Inbunden, 2013
1068 kr
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Why do you switch from walking to running at a specific speed? Why do tall trees rarely blow over in high winds? And why does a spore ejected into air at seventy miles per hour travel only a fraction of an inch? Comparative Biomechanics is the first and only textbook that takes a comprehensive look …
Life's Devices
The Physical World of Animals and Plants
Av Steven Vogel
E-bok, 2020
1255 kr
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This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. "My immodest aim," says the author, "is to change how you view your immediate surroundings." He asks us to wonder about the design of plants and animals around us: why a fish swims more …
Life in Moving Fluids
The Physical Biology of Flow - Revised and Expanded Second Edition
Av Steven Vogel
E-bok, 2020
1141 kr
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Both a landmark text and reference book, Steven Vogel''s Life in Moving Fluids has also played a catalytic role in research involving the applications of fluid mechanics to biology. In this revised edition, Vogel continues to combine humor and clear explanations as he addresses biologists and …
Life's Devices
The Physical World of Animals and Plants
Av Steven Vogel
Häftad, 2025
195 kr
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An entertaining and informative book that explores how living things contend with nonbiological realityLife on Earth is subject to the pull of gravity, the properties of air and water, and the behavior of diffusing molecules, yet such physical factors are constraints that drive evolution and offer …
Life's Devices
The Physical World of Animals and Plants
Av Steven Vogel
E-bok, 2025
257 kr
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An entertaining and informative book that explores how living things contend with nonbiological reality Life on Earth is subject to the pull of gravity, the properties of air and water, and the behavior of diffusing molecules, yet such physical factors are constraints that drive evolution and offer …
Against Nature
The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory
Av Steven Vogel
Inbunden, 1996
1286 kr
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Argues that the tradition of critical theory has had significant problems dealing with the concept of nature and that their solutions require taking seriously the idea of nature as socially constructed.Against Nature examines the history of the concept of nature in the tradition of Critical Theory, …
Against Nature
The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory
Av Steven Vogel
Häftad, 1996
463 kr
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Argues that the tradition of critical theory has had significant problems dealing with the concept of nature and that their solutions require taking seriously the idea of nature as socially constructed.Against Nature examines the history of the concept of nature in the tradition of Critical Theory, …
U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World
Av Steven Vogel
Häftad, 2002
304 kr
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September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this treaty, Japan fundamentally transformed its position on the world stage. It established itself in the vanguard of the burgeoning cold war bulwark against …
U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World
Av Steven Vogel
E-bok, 2004
328 kr
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September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this treaty, Japan fundamentally transformed its position on the world stage. It established itself in the vanguard of the burgeoning cold war bulwark against …
Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds
Av Steven Vogel
E-bok, 2009
785 kr
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Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds offers an eye-opening look into how the characteristics of the physical world drive the designs of animals and plants. These characteristics impose limits but also create remarkable and subtle opportunities for the functional biology of organisms. In …
Life's Devices
The Physical World of Animals and Plants
Av Steven Vogel
Häftad, 1988
849 kr
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This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. "My immodest aim," says the author, "is to change how you view your immediate surroundings." He asks us to wonder about the design of plants and animals around us: why a fish swims more …