The Physics of Life
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The Physics of Life

The Evolution of Everything

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The Physics of Life

The Evolution of Everything

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The Physics of Life explores the roots of the big question by examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both animate and inanimate: how to live longer, with food, warmth, power, movement and free access to other people and surroundings. Bejan explores controversial and relevant issues such as sustainability, water and food supply, fuel, and economy, to critique the state in which the world understands positions of power and freedom. Breaking down concepts such as desire and power, sports health and culture, the state of economy, water and energy, politics and distribution, Bejan uses the language of physics to explain how each system works in order to clarify the meaning of evolution in its broadest scientific sense, moving the reader towards a better understanding of the world's systems and the natural evolution of cultural and political development. The Physics of Life argues that the evolution phenomenon is much broader and older than the evolutionary designs that constitute the biosphere, empowering readers with a new view of the globe and the future, revealing that the urge to have better ideas has the same physical effect as the urge to have better laws and better government. This is evolution explained loudly but also elegantly, forging a path that flows sustainability.

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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781466891340
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Physics
Index
Physics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Preface
  5. Chapter 1: The Life Question
  6. Chapter 2: What All the World Desires
  7. Chapter 3: Wealth as Movement with Purpose
  8. Chapter 4: Technology Evolution
  9. Chapter 5: Sports Evolution
  10. Chapter 6: City Evolution
  11. Chapter 7: Growth
  12. Chapter 8: Politics, Science and Design Change
  13. Chapter 9: The Arrow of Time
  14. Chapter 10: The Death Question
  15. Chapter 11: Life and Evolution as Physics
  16. Appendix to Chapter 5
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Notes
  19. Index
  20. About the Author
  21. Other Books by Adrian Bejan
  22. Newsletter Sign-Up
  23. Contents
  24. Copyright