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Design in nature [electronic resource] : how the constructal law governs evolution in biology, physics, technology, and social organization / Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane.

by Bejan, Adrian, 1948-

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New York : Doubleday, c2012.

Pattern formation (Physical sciences)

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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=BB7D7DD1-3E8F-48D2-9AC8-805734621918 This title is available online; click here to access

9780385534628 (electronic bk.)

0385534620 (electronic bk.)

1 online resource (vii, 296 p.) : ill.

The birth of flow -- The birth of design -- Animals on the move -- Witnessing evolution -- Seeing beyond the trees and the forest -- Why hierarchy reins -- The fast and long meets meet the slow and short -- The design of academia -- The golden ratio, vision, cognition, and culture -- The design of history.

Reveals how recurring patterns in nature are accounted for by a single governing principle of physics, explaining how all designs in the world from biological life to inanimate systems evolve in a sequence of ever-improving designs that facilitate flow.

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