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Evolution

Why the Wheel Is Round Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move

Vogel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226599687, ISBN: HB: 9780226381039, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 81 halftones, 64 line drawings

There 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 wheel – a rotational mechanism that accomplishes w...

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Nature

Life of a Leaf

Vogel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226104775, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 47 colour plates, 18 halftones, 10 line illus.

In 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, every organism must contend with its immediate ph...

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