The Secret Language Of Animals
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- 17 uur lezen
A wonderfully written, beautifully illustrated guide to the behaviour and body language of the world's most fascinating and watchable animals.
Janine M. Benyus Boeken
Janine M. Benyus is de auteur van zes boeken over biomimicry, een innovatieve benadering die inspiratie put uit de natuur. Haar baanbrekende werk stelt dat de mens de genialiteit van de natuur bewust moet navolgen in haar ontwerpen, producten en processen. Met haar geschriften en pleidooi promoot ze de natuurlijke integratie van biomimicry in onze cultuur, en inspireert ze tot duurzame oplossingen voor menselijke systemen. Haar benadering combineert wetenschappelijk begrip met de noodzaak om een levensondersteunende toekomst te ontwerpen.
Biomimicry
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- 12 uur lezen
Repackaged with a new afterword, this "valuable and entertaining" ( New York Times Book Review ) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems. Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes readers into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; harness energy by examining how a leaf converts sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; and many more examples. Composed of stories of vision and invention, personalities and pipe dreams, Biomimicry is must reading for anyone interested in the shape of our future.
