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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Wheels and other mechanisms were, until very recently, powered by the push and pull of the muscles and skeletal systems of humans and other animals. Providing a unique history of the wheel and other rotational devices-- like cranks, cranes, carts, and capstans-- Vogel examines the contraptions and tricks we have devised in order to more efficiently move-- and move through-- the physical world. In doing so, he offers a captivating exploration of our...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarlequinTeen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When Elizabeth Lavenza enrolled at Ingold as its first female medical student, she knew she wouldn't have an easy time. From class demands to being an outsider among her male cohorts, she'll have to go above and beyond to prove herself. So when she stumbles across what appears to be a faulty Bio-Mechanical--one of the mechanized cadavers created to service the school--she jumps at the chance to fix it and get ahead in the program. Only this Bio-Mechanical...
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