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The Life of a Leaf by Steven Vogel
Booksplease Price: £25.10In 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,... -
Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds by Steven Vogel 9780691138077
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.90Glimpses 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... -
Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle by Steven Vogel 9780393324631
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £21.27Whether 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... -
Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory by Steven Vogel 9780791430453
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791430453Author Steven VogelFormat HardbackPage Count 225Imprint State University of New York... -
Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory by Steven Vogel 9780791430460
Booksplease Price: £25.94Against Nature examines the history of the concept of nature in the tradition of Critical Theory, with chapters on Lukacs, Horkheimer and Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas. It argues that the tradition... -
Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants Steven Vogel 9780691270586
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.40An 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... -
Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World - Second Edition by Steven Vogel 9780691155661
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.22Why 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... -
Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People by Steven Vogel 9780393319903
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £15.99Nature 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... -
Thinking like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature by Steven Vogel 9780262529716
Booksplease Price: £29.31A 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... -
Vital Circuits: On Pumps, Pipes, and the Wondrous Workings of Circulatory Systems by Steven Vogel 9780195082692
RRP: £61.00Booksplease Price: £46.28Most 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... -
Why the Wheel is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move by Steven Vogel
Booksplease Price: £31.37There 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... -
Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move by Steven Vogel
Booksplease Price: £20.12There 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... -
Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology of Flow - Revised and Expanded Second Edition by Steven Vogel
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £59.80Both 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... -
U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World by Steven K. Vogel 9780815706298
Booksplease Price: £22.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815706298Author Steven VogelFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher... -
Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader John Abromeit 9780415289108
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader is a collection of brand new papers by seventeen Marcuse scholars, which provides a comprehensive reassessment of the relevance of Marcuse's critical... -
Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism by Steven K. Vogel
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.99As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly wrong. They questioned... -
Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries by Steven K. Vogel 9780801485343
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £25.54Over the past fifteen years, the United States, Western Europe, and Japan have transformed the relationship between governments and corporations. The changes are complex and the terms used to... -
Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries by Steven K. Vogel 9780801432156
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.76Over the past fifteen years, the United States, Western Europe, and Japan have transformed the relationship between governments and corporations. The changes are complex and the terms used to... -
Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work by Steven K. Vogel
RRP: £41.49Booksplease Price: £31.52Modern-day markets do not arise spontaneously or evolve naturally. Rather they are crafted by individuals, firms, and most of all, by governments. Thus "marketcraft" represents a core function of... -
The Ecological Community by Roger S. Gottlieb 9780415916127
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80The Ecological Community offers important and previously unexplored responses to the environmental crisis. The premise of this volume, writes editor Roger Gottlieb, is that the environmental crisis... -
Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work by Steven K. Vogel 9780190090449
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £18.18Modern-day markets do not arise spontaneously or evolve naturally. Rather they are crafted by individuals, firms, and most of all, by governments. Like statecraft, "marketcraft" represents a core... -
Rethinking Japanese Security: Internal and External Dimensions by Peter J. Katzenstein
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08Since the unexpected end of the Cold War, standard arguments about power politics can no longer be adopted uncritically. This has led to a renewed interest in Japan's unusually peaceful security... -
Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings?: Flying Animals, Flying Machines, and How They are Different by David E. Alexander 9780813544793
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £26.35What do a bumble bee and a 747 jet have in common? It's not a trick question. The fact is they have quite a lot in common. They both have wings. They both fly. And they're both ideally suited to it... -
The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture by John H. Lienhard 9780195167313
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.27Millions of people have listened to John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." In this fascinating book, Lienhard gathers his reflections on the nature of technology, culture,... -
Principles of Animal Locomotion by R.McNeill Alexander
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £65.15How can geckoes walk on the ceiling and basilisk lizards run over water? What are the aerodynamic effects that enable small insects to fly? What are the relative merits of squids' jet-propelled... -
The Extended Organism: The Physiology of Animal-Built Structures by J. Scott Turner 9780674009851
Booksplease Price: £43.25Can the structures that animals build--from the humble burrows of earthworms to towering termite mounds to the Great Barrier Reef--be said to live? However counterintuitive the idea might first seem,... -
The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself by J. Scott Turner 9780674057531
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.13Most people, when they contemplate the living world, conclude that it is a designed place. So it is jarring when biologists come along and say this is all wrong. What most people see as design, they... -
The Biomechanics of Insect Flight: Form, Function, Evolution by Robert Dudley 9780691094915
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £74.35From the rain forests of Borneo to the tenements of Manhattan, winged insects are a conspicuous and abundant feature of life on earth. Here, Robert Dudley presents the first comprehensive explanation... -
Involving Anthroponomy in the Anthropocene: On Decoloniality by Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book introduces the idea of anthroponomy - the organization of humankind to support autonomous life - as a response to the problems of today's purported "Anthropocene" age. It argues for a... -
Transatlantic Policymaking in an Age of Austerity: Diversity and Drift by Martin A. Levin 9781589010314
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £25.08"Transatlantic Policymaking in an Age of Austerity" integrates the study of politics and public policy across a broad spectrum of regulatory and social welfare policies in the United States and... -
Darwin's Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us About the History of Life and the Future of Technology by John Long 9780465021413
Booksplease Price: £31.89What happens when we let robots play the game of life? The challenge of studying evolution is that the history of life is buried in the past- we can't witness the dramatic events that shaped the...