Janine M Benyus
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This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature's best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems.
If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature - taking advantage of evolution's 3.8 billion years of R&D since the first bacteria. Biomimics study nature's best ideas: photosynthesis, brain power, and shells - and adapt...
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c1992
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Beastly Behaviors is a book for animal lovers everywhere - a lively, illustrated armchair "field guide" to the behavior and body language of the world's most watchable zoo animals, arranged just the way exhibits are set up at the zoo: Animals of the African jungles, plains, and waterways; Asian forests; the warm oceans; North America; the Poles. In the friendly tone of a knowledgeable zookeeper, Janine Benyus answers questions about specific animals...