Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants (Record no. 296062)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9788173713569
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 571.4 VOG-L .PS
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Steven Vogel
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2000
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 367p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Have you ever wondered 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 filmsy skeleton, or how a mouse can easily survive a fall onto any surface from any height. This entertaining and informative book describes how living things bump up against nonbiological reality; it aims to change how you view your immediate surroundings. It will not only fascinate the general reader but will also serve as an introductory survey of biomechanics. Life's Devices includes examples from every major group of animals and plants, with references to recent work, with illustrative problems, and with suggestions of experiments that need only common household materials.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Evolutie. Fylogenie.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Book
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 18/12/2015   571.4 VOG-L .PS DCB1906 18/12/2015 19/07/2019 Book