Life's Devices The Physical World of Animals and Plants

Name: Life's Devices The Physical World of Animals and Plants
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ISBN: 9780691024189

ISBN-10: 0691024189

ISBN-13: 9780691024189

Edition: 1988

Authors: Steven Vogel, Rosemary A. Calvert

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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 rapidly than a duck can paddle, why healthy trees more commonly uproot than break, how a shark manages with such a flimsy skeleton, or how a mouse can easily survive a fall onto any surface from any height. The book will not only fascinate the general reader but will also serve as an introductory survey of biomechanics. On one hand, organisms cannot alter the earth's gravity, the properties of water,…

Book details

List price: $78.50
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 12/21/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English