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Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move
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Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move Hardcover - 2016

by Vogel, Steven

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2016. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 327 pp. .
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  • Title Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move
  • Author Vogel, Steven
  • Illustrator Well-illustrated
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 2016
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BOOKS095157I
  • ISBN 9780226381039 / 022638103X
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Biomechanics, Rotational motion
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016005058
  • Dewey Decimal Code 612.76

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About the author

Steven Vogel (1940-2015) was James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of biology at Duke University. His books include Cats' Paws and Catapults, Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds, and The Life of a Leaf, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.