Steven Vogel is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Biology at Duke University. His numerous books include
Comparative Biomechanics (Princeton), and
Cats“ Paws and Catapults (Norton).
12 Ebooks von Steven Vogel
Steven Vogel: U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World
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 …
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€24.97
Steven Vogel: Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds
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 limi …
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€62.99
Steven Vogel: Comparative Biomechanics
The classic textbook on comparative biomechanics—revised and expanded 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 s …
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€119.99
Steven Vogel: Vital Circuits
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 …
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€43.66
Steven Vogel: Vital Circuits
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 …
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€56.23
Steven Vogel: Thinking like a Mall
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 …
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€74.99
Steven Vogel: Life’s Devices
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. …
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€99.99
Steven Vogel: Life in Moving Fluids
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 ed …
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€84.99
Steven Vogel: Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle
The story—and the science—of nature’s greatest engine. 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 litt …
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€23.99
Steven Vogel: Cats‘ Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
‚Full of ideas and well-explained principles that will bring new understanding of everyday things to both scientists and non-scientists alike.’—R. Mc Neill Alexander, Nature Nature and humans build t …
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€23.99
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer & Allen Thompson: Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change
An analytically precise and theoretically probing exploration of the challenge to our values and virtues posed by climate change.Predictions about global climate change have produced both stark …
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€87.69
