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Prime mover : a natural history of muscle /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vogel, Steven, 1940-2015
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Norton, [2001]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Muscles.
Muscles > Popular Works.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of 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.