J Peder Zane: 2 books
Off the Books
On Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Head Off the Books in this collection of newspaper columns, where J. Peder Zane uses classic and contemporary literature to explore American culture and politics. The book review editor for the Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer from 1996 to 2009, Zane demonstrates that good books are essential...
Design in Nature
How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world.
Everything—from...