The Life of a Leaf

preview-18
  • The Life of a Leaf Book Detail

  • Author : Steven Vogel
  • Release Date : 2012-10-17
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Genre : Nature
  • Pages : 316
  • ISBN 13 : 0226859398
  • File Size : 96,96 MB

The Life of a Leaf by Steven Vogel PDF Summary

Book Description: 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 account, the leaf serves as a biological everyman, an ordinary and ubiquitous living thing that nonetheless speaks volumes about our environment as well as its own. Thus in exploring the leaf’s world, Vogel simultaneously explores our own. A companion website with demonstrations and teaching tools can be found here: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/vogel/index.html

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Life of a Leaf books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Life of a Leaf

The Life of a Leaf

File Size : 47,47 MB
Total View : 3879 Views
DOWNLOAD

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 lea

China and Japan

China and Japan

File Size : 2,2 MB
Total View : 6001 Views
DOWNLOAD

A Financial Times “Summer Books” Selection “Will become required reading.” —Times Literary Supplement “Elegantly written...with a confidence that co

Big Money

Big Money

File Size : 43,43 MB
Total View : 3694 Views
DOWNLOAD

Mark Hanna -- the turn-of-the-century iron-and-coal-magnate-turned-operative who leveraged massive contributions from the robber barons -- was famously quoted a

The Farmer's Lawyer

The Farmer's Lawyer

File Size : 17,17 MB
Total View : 9428 Views
DOWNLOAD

With a new foreword by Willie Nelson "An exquisitely written American saga." --Sarah Smarsh The "remarkably well told and heartfelt" (John Grisham) story of a y

Thinking like a Mall

Thinking like a Mall

File Size : 98,98 MB
Total View : 4778 Views
DOWNLOAD

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