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About the Author
Steven Vogel is James B. Duke Professor in the Department of Zoology at Duke University. He is the author of Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants (Princeton), for which he won the Jean and Irving Stone Science Writing Award, and Vital Circuits: A Popular Account of Circulatory Systems.
Reviews
"Vogel ... has a deep knowledge of hydrodynamics and knows how to teach the subject. Many phenomena are explained more clearly in his book than in common fluid dynamic texts... Beautifully produced."--Jerry Gollub, Physics Today "This edition includes more of everything: more physical concepts, more biological examples, more sources for additional information... Vogel finds a way to make sense of even the least intuitive concepts."--Mike May, American Scientist Praise for the previous edition: "Required reading for students of biology at all levels of career development."--Paul W. Webb, Science "For biologists who want to come to the beginning of a quantitative understanding of a wide variety of adaptations, for general readers who want to see how fluid mechanics works in a varied and often surprising context ... this book, full of data, rich in up-to-date and well-appraised references, is a first-class opportunity."--Philip Morrison, Scientific American
Book Information
ISBN 9780691026169
Author Steven Vogel
Format Paperback
Page Count 488
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 680g