TY - BOOK AU - Mae, Wan Ho TI - The Rainbow and the Worm : The Physics of Organisms SN - 978-981-283-259-7 U1 - 553.7 CY - Usa PB - World Scientific N1 - what is it to be alive - Do organisms contravene the second law - Can the second law cope with organised complexity? . Enegy flw and living cycles - Haw to catch a falling electron- Towards a thermodynamics of organised complexity - The seventy-theree octaves of nature“s music - The solid-state cell - Life is the colours of the rainbow in a worm ER -