wyszukanych pozycji: 28
Thinking Like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy After the End of Nature
ISBN: 9780262529716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached "the end of nature," as Bill McKibben and other environmental thinkers have declared, what is there left to protect? In Thinking like a Mall, Steven Vogel argues that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of "nature" altogether and spoke instead of the "environment" -- that is, the world that actually surrounds us, which is always a built world, the only one that we inhabit. We need to think not so much like a mountain (as Aldo Leopold... Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached "the end of nature," as Bill McKibben and... |
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188,87 zł |
Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology of Flow - Revised and Expanded Second Edition
ISBN: 9780691026169 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Both 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 edition, Vogel continues to combine humor and clear explanations as he addresses biologists and general readers interested in biological fluid mechanics, offering updates on the field over the last dozen years and expanding the coverage of the biological literature. His discussion of the relationship between fluid flow and biological design now includes sections on jet propulsion,... Both a landmark text and reference book, Steven Vogel's Life in Moving Fluids has also played a catalytic role in research involving the app... |
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388,82 zł |
Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants
ISBN: 9780691024189 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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... This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. "My immodest aim," says the author, "is ... |
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455,47 zł |
Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move
ISBN: 9780226599687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A book about how people and machines work together, and how we design machines to replicate and amplify what we can do ourselves.
A book about how people and machines work together, and how we design machines to replicate and amplify what we can do ourselves.
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105,54 zł |
Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move
ISBN: 9780226381039 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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 what our physical form cannot. Throughout history, humans have developed technologies powered by human strength, complementing the physical abilities we have while overcoming our weaknesses. Providing a unique history of the wheel and other rotational devices--like cranks, cranes, carts, and capstans--Why the Wheel Is Round examines the...
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...
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172,19 zł |
The Life of a Leaf
ISBN: 9780226104775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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 physical environment, a world that both limits what organisms can do and offers innumerable opportunities for evolving fascinating ways of challenging those limits. Here, Vogel explains these interactions, examining through the example of the leaf the extraordinary designs that enable life to adapt to its physical world. In Vogel's...
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, us...
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133,31 zł |
Vital Circuits: On Pumps, Pipes, and the Workings of Circulatory Systems
ISBN: 9780195082692 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Most 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 our attention. It is physically remarkable, bringing food to (and removing waste from) a hundred trillion cells, coursing through 60,000 miles of arteries and veins (equivalent to over twice around the earth at the equator). And it is also intriguing. For instance, blood leaving the heart flows rapidly through the arteries, then slows down dramatically in the capillaries (to a speed of one mile...
Most of us think about our circulatory system only when something goes wrong, but the amazing story of how it goes right--"magnificently right," as au...
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296,25 zł |
Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World - Second Edition
ISBN: 9780691155661 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Why 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 of an inch? Comparative Biomechanics is the first and only textbook that takes a comprehensive look at the mechanical aspects of life--covering animals and plants, structure and movement, and solids and fluids. An ideal entry point into the ways living creatures interact with their immediate physical world, this revised and updated edition examines how the forms and activities of... Why 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 ... |
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555,45 zł |
U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World
ISBN: 9780815706298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. September 2001 marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending World War II. In signing this treaty Japan fundamentally transformed its international position, placing itself in the vanguard of the Cold War bulwark against the Soviet Union, and wedding itself economically, politically and with security ties to the US. The half century since has seen highs and lows in relations between the two countries. This text evaluates the changing relationship between the two great powers, providing analysis on a variety of topics. It scrutinizes the historical...
September 2001 marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending World War II. In signing this treaty Japan fund...
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111,04 zł |
Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle
ISBN: 9780393324631 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Our everyday activities turn on the performance of nature's main engine: we may breathe harder going uphill, but we put more strain on our muscles walking downhill. Those of us who are right-handed can tighten screws and jar lids more forcibly than we can loosen them. Here we're treated to the story of how form and performance make these things happen--how nature does her work Steven Vogel is a leader in the great new field of bioengineering, which is rapidly explaining the beauty and efficiency of nature. His talents as both scientist and writer shine in this masterful narrative of...
Our everyday activities turn on the performance of nature's main engine: we may breathe harder going uphill, but we put more strain on our muscles wal...
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112,80 zł |
Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds
ISBN: 9780691138077 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych.
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277,73 zł |
Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory
ISBN: 9780791430460 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Against 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 has been marked by significant difficulties with respect to that concept; that these problems are relevant to contemporary environmental philosophy as well; and that a solution to them requires taking seriously--and literally--the idea of nature as socially constructed.
Against Nature examines the history of the concept of nature in the tradition of Critical Theory, with chapters on Lukacs, Horkheimer and Adorno, Marc...
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141,70 zł |
The Japanese Family in Transition: From the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice
ISBN: 9781442252752 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburban community, interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. Their research led to Japan s New Middle Class, a classic work on the sociology of Japan. Now, Suzanne Hall Vogel s compelling sequel traces the evolution of Japanese society over the ensuing decades through the lives of three of these ordinary yet remarkable women and their daughters and granddaughters. Vogel contends that the role of the professional housewife constrained Japanese middle-class women in the postwar era and yet it empowered them as...
In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburban community, interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. Their ...
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211,07 zł |
Freer Markets, More Rules
ISBN: 9780801485343 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Vogel's discussion of deregulation in Japan offers the reader an understanding of the distinct issues of market liberalization and regulatory reform as they have been pursued in Japan, and also offers an analysis of the relationship between state and market in contemporary Japan. In the face of the growing acceptance of the claim that international market forces have been compelling reluctant governments to deregulate, liberalize and privatize more segments of their economies, Steven Vogel presents a political challenge to what he regards as these oversimplifications.
Vogel's discussion of deregulation in Japan offers the reader an understanding of the distinct issues of market liberalization and regulatory reform a...
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142,42 zł |
Freer Markets, More Rules
ISBN: 9780801432156 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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248,01 zł |
Japan Remodeled
ISBN: 9780801473715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As 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 the very institutions that had been credited with...
As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic ...
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131,87 zł |
Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism
ISBN: 9780801444494 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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248,01 zł |
Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work
ISBN: 9780190090449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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136,23 zł |
Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work
ISBN: 9780190699857 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Marketcraft argues that markets do not arise spontaneously but rather are crafted by individuals, firms, and most of all by governments. Thus "marketcraft" represents a core function of government comparable to statecraft. Vogel systematically reviews the implications of this argument, critiquing prevalent schools of thought and presenting innovative lessons for policy.
Marketcraft argues that markets do not arise spontaneously but rather are crafted by individuals, firms, and most of all by governments. Thus "market...
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206,21 zł |
The Write Path: Steven Aiello and Bob Vogel
ISBN: 9781964852225 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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63,85 zł |