Entropy and Energy: A Universal Competition

This student textbook and scientific monograph provides a very readable introduction to thermodynamics and the concept of entropy and energy. It gives instructive examples from elementary thermodynamics and physico-chemistry and extrapolates the notion to non-standard thermodynamic subjects like shape memory, dissipation of the earth's atmosphere, and sociology. The reader has numerous possibilities to influence the programs and thus develop an understanding for the thermodynamic principles.