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J. Peder Zane
J. Peder Zane is an assistant professor of journalism and mass communications at St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is an award-winning columnist who has worked for the New York Times and the News & Observer (Raleigh). He has edited and contributed to two books, Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading and The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books.
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Design in Nature
Written by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane
Anchor | Trade Paperback | January 2013
$17.00/23.00(Canada) | 978-0-307-74434-0 (0-307-74434-5)
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 many other designs in our world. Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure... Read more
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Design in Nature
Written by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane
Doubleday | Hardcover | January 2012
$27.95/32.00(Canada) | 978-0-385-53461-1 (0-385-53461-2)
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... Read more
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