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      Life’s Devices

      Steven Vogel, Steven Vogel

      An entertaining and informative book that explores how living things contend with nonbiological reality

      Life on Earth is subject to the pull of gravity, the properties of air and water…

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      The Write Path

      Steven Aiello, Bob Vogel

      The Write Path - Jewish Israeli and Palestinian Youth Finding Commonalities and Mutual Understanding Through Writing is a unique window into the changing lives of students after the war broke…

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      Us - Japan Relations in a Changing World

      September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this treaty, Japan fundamentally transformed its position on…

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      Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory

      Steven Vogel

      Argues that the tradition of critical theory has had significant problems dealing with the concept of nature and that their solutions require taking seriously the idea of nature as socially…

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      Thinking like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature

      Steven Vogel

      A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of nature altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.

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      Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology of Flow

      Steven Vogel

      This text discusses the applications of fluid mechanics to biology. It provides coverage of the field since the 1980s, with details of literature. It includes sections on jet propulsion, biological…

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      Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds

      Steven Vogel

      Offers a look into how the characteristics of the physical world drive the designs of animals and plants. This title contains information related to functional biology. Drawing examples from creatures…

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      Comparative Biomechanics: Life’s Physical World - Second Edition

      Steven Vogel

      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…

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      Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle

      Steven Vogel

      Although muscles differ little in appearance and performance across the animal kingdom, they accomplish tasks as diverse as making flies fly, rattlesnakes rattle and squid flare out their tentacles. In…

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

      Steven Vogel

      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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      Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry are Reforming Japanese Capitalism

      Steven Vogel

      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…

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      The Life of a Leaf

      Steven Vogel (Duke University, North Carolina)

      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 ways of…

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

      Steven Vogel (Duke University, North Carolina)

      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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      Cats’ Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People

      Steven Vogel (Duke University)

      Full of ideas and well-explained principles that will bring new understanding of everyday things to both scientists and non-scientists alike. -R. McNeill Alexander, Nature

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      Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries

      Steven K. Vogel

      There is growing acceptance of claims that international market forces are compelling reluctant governments to deregulate, liberalize and privatize their domestic economies. This study presents a political challenge to, what…

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      Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries

      Steven K. Vogel

      There is growing acceptance of claims that international market forces are compelling reluctant governments to deregulate, liberalize and privatize their domestic economies. This study presents a political challenge to, what…

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      Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry are Reforming Japanese Capitalism

      Steven K. Vogel

      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…

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      Vital Circuits: On Pumps, Pipes, and the Wondrous Workings of Circulatory Systems

      Steven Vogel (Professor of Zoology, Professor of Zoology, Duke University)

      A broad view of the workings and science of the circulatory system written in conversational style for the nonscientist and student of science. Uses everyday mechanisms and other animals as…

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      Nature’s Flyers: Birds, Insects, and the Biomechanics of Flight

      David E. Alexander

      David E. Alexander’s fascination with the many animals and plants that have harnessed the air is evident in Nature’s Flyers: Birds, Insects, and the Biomechanics of Flight, a detailed account…

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      Life’s Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants

      Steven Vogel,Rosemary Anne Calvert

      Describes how living things bump up against non-biological reality. Asking us wonder about the design of plants and animals around us, this book includes examples from every major group of…

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      The Japanese Family in Transition: From the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice

      Suzanne Hall Vogel

      These gripping biographies poignantly illustrate the strengths and the vulnerabilities of professional housewives and of families facing social change and economic uncertainty in contemporary Japan.

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      The Japanese Family in Transition: From the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice

      Suzanne Hall Vogel

      These gripping biographies poignantly illustrate the strengths and the vulnerabilities of professional housewives and of families facing social change and economic uncertainty in contemporary Japan.

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      Nature’s Flyers: Birds, Insects and the Biomechanics of Flight

      David E. Alexander

      A detailed account of the current scientific understanding of the primary aspects of flight in nature. The author explains the physical basis of flight, drawing upon bats, birds, insects, pterosaurs…

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      Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work

      Steven K. Vogel (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, UC-Berkeley)

      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…

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      Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work

      Steven K. Vogel (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, UC-Berkeley)

      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…

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      The Political Economy Reader: Contending Perspectives and Contemporary Debates

      Naazneen H. Barma,Steven K. Vogel

      For political economy courses at a variety of levels and from a range of disciplines, The Political Economy Reader is also of interest to scholars and citizens wanting perspective on…

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      The Political Economy Reader: Contending Perspectives and Contemporary Debates

      Naazneen H. Barma,Steven K. Vogel

      For political economy courses at a variety of levels and from a range of disciplines, The Political Economy Reader is also of interest to scholars and citizens wanting perspective on…

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      Clinical Toxinology in Australia, Europe, and Americas

      This handbook addresses various topics on clinical toxinology such as the epidemiology and management of snake and insect bites in Australia and different countries in Europe and the Americas.

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      Clinical Toxinology in Australia, Europe, and Americas

      This handbook addresses various topics on clinical toxinology such as the epidemiology and management of snake and insect bites in Australia and different countries in Europe and the Americas.

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      Deng Xiaoping Shakes the World: An Eyewitness Account of China’s Party Work Conference and the Third Plenum

      Guangyuan Yu

      China’s opening up to the world in 1978 following nearly thirty years of communism had profound effects not only on the PRC, but also on the whole world. This invaluable…

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      Deng Xiaoping Shakes the World: An Eyewitness Account of China’s Party Work Conference and the Third Plenum

      Guangyuan Yu

      China’s opening up to the world in 1978 following nearly thirty years of communism had profound effects not only on the PRC, but also on the whole world. This invaluable…

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      Biochemistry

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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      Cosmochemistry

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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      Spectroscopy

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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      Orientation and Stereoselection

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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      Reactive Intermediates

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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      NMR Spectroscopy of Annulenes

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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      Organometallic Compounds in Industry

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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      Electronic Structure of Organic Compounds

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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      Nonaqueous Chemistry

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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      Complexes of Transition Metals

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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      Structure and Transformations of Organic Molecules

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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      Computers in Chemistry

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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      Wittig Chemistry: Dedicated to Professor Dr. G. Wittig

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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      Organic Chemistry

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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      Micelles

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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      Theory

      Kendall N. Houk,Christopher A. Hunter,Michael J. Krische,Jean-Marie Lehn,Steven V. Ley

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