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The book begins with familiar designs found all around and inside us (such as the ‘trees’ of river basins, human lungs, blood and city traffic). It then shows how all flow systemsare driven by power from natural engines everywhere, and how they are endlessly shaped because of freedom. Finally, Professor Bejan explains how people, like everything else that moves on earth, are driven by power derived from our “engines” that consume fuel and food, and that our movement dissipates the power completely and changes constantly for greater access, economies of scale, efficiency, innovation and life. Written for wide audiences of all ages, including readers interested in science, patterns in nature, similarity and non-uniformity, history and the future, and those just interested in having fun with ideas, the book shows how many “design change” concepts acquire a solid scientific footing and how they exist with the evolution of nature, society, technology and science.

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The book begins with familiar designs found all around and inside us (such as the ‘trees’ of river basins, human lungs, blood and city traffic). It then shows how all flow systemsare driven by power from natural engines everywhere, and how they are endlessly shaped because of freedom. Finally, Professor Bejan explains how people, like everything else that moves on earth, are driven by power derived from our “engines” that consume fuel and food, and that our movement dissipates the power completely and changes constantly for greater access, economies of scale, efficiency, innovation and life. Written for wide audiences of all ages, including readers interested in science, patterns in nature, similarity and non-uniformity, history and the future, and those just interested in having fun with ideas, the book shows how many “design change” concepts acquire a solid scientific footing and how they exist with the evolution of nature, society, technology and science.

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Adrian Bejan was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal for “Thermodynamics and constructal theory, which predicts natural design and its evolution in engineering, scientific, and social systems”.

He earned all his degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: B.S. (1971, Honors Course), M.S. (1972, Honors Course), and Ph.D. (1975). He was a Fellow in the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, at the University of California, Berkeley (1976-1978). At Duke University, he is the J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor since 1989. He authored over 30 books, including The Physics of Life (2016) and 650 peer-refereed journal articles, and was awarded 18 honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries.

Professor Adrian Bejan’s impact on thermal sciences is highlighted by his original methods of theory, modeling, analysis and design that today are associated with his name: life and evolution as physics, constructal law, entropy generation minimization, scale analysis, heatlines, temperature-heat (T-Q) drawings, and many more. He has received the highest international awards for thermal sciences, and is a member of the Academy of Europe.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer; 1st ed. 2020 edition (December 18, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 166 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030340082
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030340087
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.5 x 9.5 inches

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Adrian Bejan was awarded the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal for "Thermodynamics and constructal theory, which predicts natural design and its evolution in engineering, scientific, and social systems".

He received all his degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S.1971, M.S.1972, Ph.D.1975). He is the J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor at Duke University:

http://mems.duke.edu/faculty/adrian-bejan.

He authored 30 books and 650 peer-refereed journal articles, and was awarded 18 honorary doctorates from universities in 11 countries, for example the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and the University of Rome I "La Sapienza".

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Susan C. Hasty

This book can help you understanding the world around around you and how to act into it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 15, 2023

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This is not an easy read. It introduces concepts that require you to have to let go of outmoded models from an era gone by. The content covers concepts including freedom, hierarchy, complexity, diversity, and inequality without the embedded ideology that is ubiquitous in conversations today. It can, assuming the reader is willing to challenge their own assumptions, empower them with a better understanding of the reality of the world we live in. Armed with these insights, I've found greater freedom in my ability to effect change both in myself and the organizations I live in. Lastly, I found a glimpse of hope in the future of humanity, despite what on the surface feels like a dystopian future.

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This is second hand book. Excellent condition and great service from the bookstore

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The subject of the book is hard to assimilate due to it's a proposal theory and I think it's subjective and lack of covering another realities in order to say that this theory is an universal law. Nevertheless it's an interesting idea.

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Freedom to change is the hidden aspect of systems that Prof. Adrian Bejan has us address in this book. It is the unspoken variable in physics that allows systems’ performances to evolve and improve. Human-made designs note the “degrees of freedom” in models that can individually impact efficiency, power, robustness, resilience, and life span.
Physics is the medium to express these ideas of freedom as it addresses reality completely and directly. Freedom, as in nature, has also allowed physics to evolve. In physics, everything is interconnected; things that appear random or disconnected are only beyond our current understanding. Nothing moves without being driven, and this power comes from fuel for machines and food for living beings. And complexity is a natural result of development and growth because moving (flowing) as a system is easier than flowing individually. This is the “economies of scale,” and whose most basic representation is social organization. Bejan distills the complexity of nature’s designs which are reflected in humanity, to three main ideas in Chapter 1. First, designs are everywhere; they unify, and are predictable based on constructal law in physics. Second, nature is a rich weave of engines connected to power-dissipating systems (brakes, think of the rhythms of inhaling and exhaling). Thirdly, humans and their machines are like everything else that moves and has evolved on Earth: these motions require freedom because movement happens not on a line between two points, but between a point and an area/volume. Freedom involves being aware of all the possibilities for movement/evolution, and Bejan gives examples in nature and among societies, arguing that the scientist with the most discipline (brake) has the greatest freedom (movement/evolution) to venture into new realms. And then he makes the beautiful point of drawing the development of disciplines and sub-disciplines to the comparison of branch networks in trees and rivers, and even to the flow of blood in the body or trade commerce throughout the globe.
Freedom to change, to question, and to self-correct are the evolutionary tracks that have allowed nature to develop such amazing levels of perfection and have also allowed us to unite the various scientific disciplines into the technological advances we witness these days. Bejan’s wisdom and experience are summed up in his words: “Give nature freedom, and nature comes back to life.”

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An Enjoyable Read for Anyone who Enjoys Questioning the World Around Them

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Adrian Bejan is venerated by scientists and laymen alike for his ability to dilute intensely complicated topics into understandable and useful knowledge. In Bejan’s most recent work, he builds on the foundation of Constructal Law and draws an impressive connection between freedom and the seemingly dissimilar disciplines of physics, nature, and societal evolution. His discussion on diversity was an especially powerful chapter; not shying away from controversial topics as is typical of communicators today, Bejan examines parallels between diversity in human evolution and diversity in science & technology, proving that the freedom to evolve is an objective truth necessary to obtain diverse outcomes in any type of flow in the Universe.

Most science is communicated in the form of complicated math equations with expectations that the reader will understand and internalize the esoteric topic that the writer has spent his or her entire life studying. In the vein of a Carl Sagan or a Richard Dawkins, Bejan breaks this mold and lightens the load on the reader by doing away with equations and opting for drawings and pictures to convey his message to the reader. Often overlooked by scholars, this method of communication proves to be especially effective in establishing the relationship between freedom and evolution. In addition, as Bejan is known to do, he incorporates jokes which serve to both elucidate topics further and make the reader think critically long after the book has been shut.

No matter your background or level of education, any curious human can glean something of value from this book. In typical Bejan style, he does not present his work authoritatively and expect the reader to blindly agree. Rather he presents facts and ideas in a logical fashion and then allows the reader to form their own opinion. What does the history of human evolution predict about the future of technology? Is there a difference between growth and evolution? Was the wine press more important to human evolution than both the wheel and the printing press? This book opens one to pondering these questions, along with many more.

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Jong Lim

Freedom makes power to make evolution

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Freedom and Power generate movement. Movement generates evolution in the nature and organization to survive and succeed by improving their configurations.
Professor Bejan’s insights on our surroundings, including the nature and society, are expanding our views and knowledge of how we can survive, succeed, and prosper in the law of the universe. His book includes numerous compelling examples, through which we can be convinced of the existence of the Constructal Law that dominates our nature, society, economy, and management.
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Naive pseudo-science

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This is the second book by Professor Bejan that I have read, the other being Design in Nature. Both delve into the applications of the author's 'big idea', constructal law. There are some interesting ideas here, hence the two star rating, but at it's heart, construtal law is not a new idea and far from being the 'new discipline' claimed. At best, it is a somewhat simplistic and naïve view of several old ideas from evolutionary biology, systems dynamics, design theory, social studies and economics that have been mashed together in a rather clumsy way. The result is stretched so far in its claims, as to come across as a pseudo-science.

The delivery is not helped by the ego of the author (practically EVERY reference is the author's own work!), grandiose claims of invention and discovery and an annoying habit of falling into quasi-Yoda forms of expression - Profound, it is not.

Interesting to see the paths Bejan has gone down, but read it with a big pinch (handful) of salt! Reading more roundly on allometric scaling, dynamic systems, design theory and the application of evolutionary sciences (to biology, economics, social, etc.), will allow you to form your own (better informed) views.

Simeon Borisov Mihaylov

A new fundamental law of physics!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 22, 2020

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Dr Bejan has discovered a new fundamental law of physics and this is his latest book on the ‘Constructal Law’’s implications. It is fascinating to understand the world through the lense of physics. Completely ‘unrelated’ phenomena are revealed to share an intimate relationship and the oneness of nature appears in its full majesty. Strongly recommend people to get to know Dr Bejan’s work!

Rudra

Good book.!

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on December 28, 2019

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I found it very well written, easy to read and understand.The book contains a nice explanation of evolution of life and nature with good images. I look forward to reading it again and spending more time on the details.I like this book very much.
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