(Paperback)

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 animals and plants, with illustrative problems, and with suggestions of experiments that need only common household materials.

(Paperback)

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.

(Paperback)

(Paperback, Revised and Expanded Second Edition)

Addresses biologists and general readers interested in biological fluid mechanics. This title discusses the relationship between fluid flow and biological design and includes sections on jet propulsion, biological pumps, swimming, blood flow, and surface waves, and on acceleration reaction and Murray's law.

(Hardback, Second Edition)

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 animal

(Paperback)

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 of land, air, and water, it demonstrates the many uses of biological diversity and how physical forces impact biological organisms.