The Human Machine - Softcover

R. McNeill Alexander; London Natural History Museum

Softcover

ISBN 10: 011310040X ISBN 13: 9780113100408

Publisher: The Stationery Office Books, 1992

Synopsis

Uses engineering principles to explain the mechanical workings of the human body.

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About the Author

R. McNeill Alexander is an internationally known scientist in his field and holder of the Linnean Medal in Zoology. He is a fellow in the Royal Society, and has a Ph.D. from Cambridge and a D.Sc. from Wales. He is the author/editor of eleven books, and he has published more than 150 scientific articles. Currently he is Professor of Zoology at the University of Leeds in England.

From Library Journal

Written for the lay reader, this exegesis on the mechanics of human movement is similar in format to Alexander's Dynamics of Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Giants ( LJ 2/15/89). Alexander (zoology, Univ. of Leeds) has left out most of the biochemical complexities of even the simplest muscular movement. Still, to understand all the information presented, the reader needs to know the basics of high school algebra, physics, and biology, and the chapter on human speech may be slow going for nonscientists. Those wishing a more complete treatment of human mechanics as it relates to athletics can find it in Marlene J. Adrian and John M. Cooper's The Biomechanics of Human Movement (Benchmark Pr., 1989). Recommended for medium to large public and high school libraries.
- Robert Jordan, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Stationery Office Books
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 011310040X
• ISBN 13: 9780113100408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176