The Highest Stakes: The Economic Foundations of the Next Security System - A BRIE Project

By Jay Stowsky, John Zysman, Michael Borrus, Ken Conca, Wayne Sandholtz, Steven Vogel, Steve Weber

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

By Vogel Steven

The Highest Stakes: The Economic Foundations of the Next Security System - A BRIE Project

By Jay Stowsky, John Zysman, Michael Borrus, Ken Conca, Wayne Sandholtz, Steven Vogel, Steve Weber

A Functional Bestiary. Laboratory Studies About Living Systems

By Stephen And Wainwright Stephen Vogel

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

By Vogel Steven

"There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates--be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than t...

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

By Steven Vogel

The life of a leaf

By Vogel Steven

Thinking like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature

By Vogel Steven

Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached "the end of nature," as Bill McKibben and other environmental thinkers have declared, what...

Prime Mover

By Vogel Steven, Steven Vogel

Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People

By Steven Vogel, Vogel Steven

Our human technology has emerged from ten thousand years of design, trial, and error. Nature's mechanical designs, the function of plants and animals are billions of years older. Both "technologies...