Steven B Vogel

The Political Economy Reader: Markets As Institutions

Japan Remodeled: How Government And Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism

U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World

U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World

A Political Economy Reader: Markets as Institutions

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

Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism

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

Steven Vogel

Steven Vogel is the James B. Duke professor in the Department of Biology at Duke University. Over the course of his professional career in biology, Vogel has...

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

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 of our current scientific understanding of the primary aspects of flight in nature.Instead of relying on ela...

The Life of a Leaf

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 org...

Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory (Suny Series in Social and Political Thought)

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 constructed.“Vogel's book lies at the intersection of three important fields: Marxist Critical Theory, postemp...

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

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 trill...

Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle

The story—and the science—of nature's greatest engine.Whether we blink an eye, lift a finger, throw a spear or a ball, walk, run, or merely breathe, we are using muscle. Although muscles differ little in appearance and performance across the animal kingdom, they accomplish tasks as diverse as making...

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

"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 Nature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials and use them in the same air and water, pulled by the sam...

The Life of a Leaf

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 org...

Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World (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 ...