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• Publisher : Cherry Lake
• File Size : 47,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 August 2012

Learn how scientists have looked toward the kingfisher for inspiration in making high-speed trains quieter.

• Publisher : Cherry Lake
• File Size : 40,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2019

Some of the greatest inventions that changed the modern world have been based on nature. In Kingfishers to Bullet Trains, readers will discover how the invention of bullet trains were

• Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
• File Size : 45,8 Mb
• Release Date : 23 December 2020

Throughout time, people have looked to the skies and dreamt of flying. In 1903, the Wright brothers finally achieved flight, but only after years of studying birds. In Animal Tech: Wings &

• Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
• File Size : 55,9 Mb
• Release Date : 18 May 2024

"Inventors and design engineers frequently look to nature for inspiration. .... This book describes many of the useful results from this ongoing search. .... The name biomimicry is often given to this

• Publisher : Reaktion Books
• File Size : 39,9 Mb
• Release Date : 15 September 2019

Kingfishers are a stunning sight to behold. The dash and verve of these cosmopolitan birds has been admired for millennia, appearing in creation myths, imperial regalia, and cultural iconography, and

• Publisher : Island Press
• File Size : 52,8 Mb
• Release Date : 12 May 2022

Did you know that mosquitoes’ mouthparts are helping to develop pain-free surgical needles? Who'd have thought that the humble mussel could inspire so many useful things, from plywood production to

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• File Size : 54,5 Mb
• Release Date : 30 October 2023

Master the four disciplines of strategic fitness essential to executive performance In Strategic, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rich Horwath delivers an incisive roadmap to help

• Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
• File Size : 42,8 Mb
• Release Date : 13 July 2023

Call of the Kingfisher is the enchanting debut from composer and wildlife recordist, Nick Penny. This love letter to a short stretch of Northamptonshire’s River Nene celebrates all the

• Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
• File Size : 46,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 2014

Applied Science: Studies of God's Design in Nature Course Description This is the suggested course sequence that allows one core area of science to be studied per semester. You can

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 32,8 Mb
• Release Date : 19 July 2019

This textbook offers practical guidelines for integrating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics into the elementary classroom in the context of addressing real-world problems, and cultivating in students high-level thinking and