Five Book Reviews of听Work Meets Life听in Peer-Reviewed Academic Journals:听BioScience; Integrative & Comparative Biology; Metascience; Choice; Am J Human Biology
- 鈥淎 quest to develop integrative links among varied scientific perspectives on work in living systems鈥onnections across all levels are developed in a set of provocative integrative ideas.鈥�
- 鈥淐hapters are well written and aptly describe complex scientific topics in terms that are understandable to a scientifically literate audience...Interesting new connections are developed, and novel ways of approaching the subject emerge.鈥�
- 鈥淭his collective work as a whole is breathtaking in its aspiration, and it successfully delivers.鈥�
鈥擠D Pennington, BioScience
听 - 鈥淓xploring work in living systems鈥s an ambitious and potentially vast undertaking. Work Meets Life takes a broad view of work in living systems, addressing multiple interpretations of work at many levels of biological organization.鈥�
- 鈥淓ach chapter builds upon concepts in other chapters, each can also be read as a separate essay. By considering biological systems in relation to work, the chapters interpret these systems in novel and thought-provoking ways.鈥澨�
鈥擩E Niven, Integrative and Comparative Biology
听 - 鈥�Work Meets Life听succeeds admirably."
- 鈥淧repared with intellectual honesty.鈥�
- 鈥淎 willingness to look at old problems in new ways."
- 鈥淲ork Meets Life is an exemplary collaboration of minds.鈥�
鈥擩S Turner, Metascience
听 - 鈥淐ontributions from researchers with expertise in disciplines such as psychology, neurobiology, [and] engineering鈥rovide several very different perspectives on the concept of work and the ways it is accomplished.鈥�
- 鈥淎 rewarding read for interested audiences as the text goes beyond the classical concepts of work as defined in physics.鈥�
- 鈥淩ecommended. 听Academic and professional audiences, all levels.鈥�
鈥擠C Eustice, Choice, journal of the Association of Research Libraries and the American Library Association
听 - 鈥淧rovide[s] a refreshingly new gaze鈥n a clear and intuitively comfortable manner.鈥�
- 鈥淎 genuinely integrative work that looks at the same phenomenon through different levels of analysis, and that provides a coherent but rich and complex narrative.鈥�
- 鈥淎n entirely new way of talking about work鈥he book is full of new and surprising juxtapositions of ideas that will be interesting to readers.鈥�
- 鈥淭he chapters are generally well written and the book is very well organised, with an excellent index, helpful abstracts, and a detailed introduction鈥onsistently provide[s] clear and easy to follow descriptions.鈥�
鈥嬧�擪N Farrell,听American Journal of Human Biology
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