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

Vogel, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195082699 ISBN 13: 9780195082692

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Vital Circuits Why does dust collect on the blades of a fan? Why should you wear support hose on a long airplane flight? Vogel ranges across physics, fluid mechanics, and chemistry to show how an enormous system of pumps and pipes works to keep the human body functioning. Anyone curious about the workings of the body will want to read this book. 64 line drawings. Full description

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Why does dust collect on the blades of a fan? Why should you wear support hose on a long airplane flight? Vogel ranges across physics, fluid mechanics, and chemistry to show how an enormous system of pumps and pipes works to keep the human body functioning. Anyone curious about the workings of the body will want to read this book. 64 line drawings.

Review:

what Vogel has achieved is an extremely well-written scientific "novel" ... a source of very valuable information. This book brings back the days when scientific texts were written not only to put forth hard scientific information but also to entertain and delight. Recommended for students enrolled in anatomy and physiology courses as well as those who enjoy reading "science". (R.G. McGee Jr, Walters State Community College, Choice, Oct '92)

Vogel won the first Irving and Jean Stone prize for Science Writing for Public Understanding with his previous book Life's devices. He could win it again with this masterpiece. (Gordon Wright)

The author ... approaches this demanding task with a keen intelligence savoured by humour and a propensity for a multidisciplinary synthesis. There is considerable stimulation and satisfaction to be gained from reading a book which is so engagingly written and well integrated by virtue of its many facted approach. A spirit of enquiry imbues the text consequently the reader can savour the excitement of scientific discovery. In so doing a wealth of authentic and fastidiously researched information is made painlessly accessible to the non-specialist. (Biological Book Reviews 1993)

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0195082699
• ISBN 13: 9780195082692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Illustrator: Calvert Rosemary Anne