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Author Vogel, Steven, 1940-2015

Title Prime mover : a natural history of muscle / Steven Vogel ; illustrated by Annette deFerrari and the author.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, [2001]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  612.74 VOGEL    Assumed Lost
Edition First edition.
Description xi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-351) and index.
Contents 1. Body work -- 2. How muscle works -- 3. And how we found out -- 4. Flying high, making noise, and clamming up -- 5. Knowing what we're doing -- 6. Connecting up muscles -- 7. Using hand tools -- 8. Working hard -- 9. More tough tasks -- 10. Bringing animals to bear -- 11. Bos versus equus -- 12. Killing tools : the big picture -- 13. Wielding the weapons -- 14. Muscle as meat -- 15. Pulling things together.
Subject Muscles.
Muscles -- Popular Works.
ISBN 0393021262
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