Design in Nature by Adrian Bejan

Design in Nature by Adrian Bejan

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 biological life to inanimate systems generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current of water, blood, or electricity. Likewise, the more complex architecture of animals evolve to cover greater distance per unit of useful energy, or increase their flow across the land. Such designs also appear in human organizations, like the hierarchical flowcharts or reporting structures in corporations and political bodies.
All are governed by the same principle, known as the Constructal Law, and configure and reconfigure themselves over time to flow more efficiently. Written in an easy style that achieves clarity without sacrificing complexity, Design in Nature is a paradigm-shifting book that will fundamentally transform our understanding of the world around us.

For thirteen years, J.Peder Zane was the book review editor and books columnist for the Raleigh News & Observer. His writing has received multiple national awards, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Outstanding Writing Award for Commentary. Zane worked at the New York Times before joining the News & Observer. Former member of the National Book Critics Circle's board of directors and current chair of St. John's University's Department of Journalism and Mass Communication Zane is a coauthor of Design in Nature and the editor of Remarkable Reads: 34 Authors and Their Experiences in Reading. He has also contributed to The Top Ten: Writers Choose Their Favorite Books and is the editor of Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading.

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ISBN 13	9780307744340
ISBN 10	0307744345
Title	Design in Nature
Author	Adrian Bejan
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2013-01-08
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Winner of Library Journal's Top Science Titles 2012
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