Human Machine - How the Body Works

Informationen zum Autor R. McNeill Alexander Klappentext As Alexander himself states! "This book views the human body and its movements as an engineer might view a structure or a machine." Drawing on timely research and original material! it is an accessible and very comprehensive examination of human movement! exploring the mechanical principles on which this movement -- from facial expressions to athletic activity -- is based. Alexander's easy-going! descriptive style describes the science of biomechanics so that it becomes both relevant and intuitively reasonable. Zusammenfassung Uses engineering principles to explain the mechanical workings of the human body.

Product details

• Authors: R. McNeill Alexander, R.mcneill Alexander, R.mcneill Iley Alexander, Sally Alexander, Mark Iley
• Assisted by: Sally Alexander (Illustration), Mark Iley (Illustration)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.12.1992
• EAN: 9780231080668
• ISBN: 978-0-231-08066-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; PHYSIOLOGY, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, MEDICAL / Physiology, Human biology