About this title: The author takes the reader into the lab and out in the field with the maverick researchers who are discovering in nature ingenious solutions to human problems: studying leaves to learn how to make microscopic solar "power packs" that will clean up toxic spills and light our homes; harnessing DNA's coding power to make blindingly fast computers; ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Perennial
Date Published: 2002-09-01
ISBN-13:9780060533229ISBN:0060533226
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780060533229. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780060533229ISBN:0060533226
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Brand New! Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. 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 ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow
Date Published: 1997-06-04
ISBN-13:9780688136918ISBN:0688136915
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Description: Very good; Collectible. Collectible Stated 1st Edition, 1st printing with 10 full numberline. Ex Library copy with usual Lib stickers and stamps. No writings/underlines/highlights. Free deliver confirmation! Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Perennial (HarperCollins)
Date Published: 1998-05
ISBN-13:9780688160999ISBN:0688160999
Description: Fair. Same ISBN, different cover art. Shelfworn and sunned but solid. Occasional marginalia. Tape at head/heel of spine to reinforce wraps/binding. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: WILLIAM MORROW & CO
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780060533229ISBN:0060533226
Description: New. 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 inno... read more
"This book talked about how we can approach design and invention by modeling things after biological systems. The idea is that nature does things the smartest and most efficient way possible. While reading this book, it made me think how not really nature, but God instead has designed our world to be so perfect and amazing... better than we can design ourselves - although we try, and completely fail. The first third of this book covered agriculture and our abhorrent misuse of it. This was probably the most impacting part of the book to me, and a realization that we just don't do enough to be aware of the basic things like how we get our food. The other sections of the book were really interesting but in some cases overly technical, so I wouldn't pick this up unless you want to brace yourself for some real science/technology. The author does a great job of explaining the technologies in laymen's terms... so if you always dreamed of being a scientist then this book might be for you. :) The only other downside is that it is somewhat out of date (1997) but for the most part still applies. As food for thought... imagine how we would live if we used nature's design (read God's design): 1. Nature runs on sunlight 2. Nature uses only the energy it needs 3. Nature fits form to function 4. Nature recycles everything 5. Nature rewards cooperation 6. Nature banks on diversity 7. Nature demands local expertise 8. Nature curbs excesses from within 9. Nature works within limits"
"A lot of the ideas presented in this book fall into a sort of "wouldn't it be nice if we could, but we can't" category. Of course, that might be because designers and innovators are not trying. However, this book presents the ideas of biomimicry with great optimistic energy."
"I think the topic of this book is very interesting, however most of the book seems to be about the lives of people who practice these technologies. Each chapter talks about the way we're making poor ecological choices. But we knew this more than ten years ago. It was hard for me to find technologies inspired by biological systems (that are currently being used). I guess I was looking for success stories."
"The writing was so "earth-mother" I couldn't get beyond the first 2 chapters. I hear it's an amazing message, but delivery is everything to me. I had enough patchouli stink in high school to last a lifetime."
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