Author: Phil Gates
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0753464101
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
"Inventions inspired by Nature"--Jacket.
Nature Got There First
Author: Phil Gates
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0753464101
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
"Inventions inspired by Nature"--Jacket.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0753464101
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
"Inventions inspired by Nature"--Jacket.
Nature Did It First
Author: karen Ansberry
Publisher: Dawn Publications
ISBN: 9781584696575
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Part playful poetry, part nonfiction information, this kid-friendly introduction to biomimicry highlights the remarkable ways plants and animals have helped us solve some of our toughest engineering challenges. One well-known example of biomimicry is the invention of Velcro - inspired by the sticky burrs from a plant. Discover six more ways nature did first Back matter includes a glossary and a STEM challenge activity to use at home or in the classroom.
Publisher: Dawn Publications
ISBN: 9781584696575
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Part playful poetry, part nonfiction information, this kid-friendly introduction to biomimicry highlights the remarkable ways plants and animals have helped us solve some of our toughest engineering challenges. One well-known example of biomimicry is the invention of Velcro - inspired by the sticky burrs from a plant. Discover six more ways nature did first Back matter includes a glossary and a STEM challenge activity to use at home or in the classroom.
Mimic Makers
Author: Kristen Nordstrom
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1580899471
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
“Young readers will be captivated by the contemporary inventors and inventions featured, and inspired to incorporate biomimicry into their own designs.” —Miranda Paul, author of One Plastic Bag and Water is Water Who's the best teacher for scientists, engineers, AND designers? Mother nature, of course! When an inventor is inspired by nature for a new creation, they are practicing something called biomimicry. Meet ten real-life scientists, engineers, and designers who imitate plants and animals to create amazing new technology. An engineer shapes the nose of his train like a kingfisher's beak. A scientist models her solar cell on the mighty leaf. Discover how we copy nature's good ideas to solve real-world problems! WINNER AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books A National Science Teacher Association Best STEM Book “Mimic Makers reveals marvels of engineering inspired by nature with images that invite careful observation and explanations that are expressive, but never over simplified.” —Kim Parfitt, AP Biology and Environmental Science teacher, curriculum developer for Howard Hughes Medical Institute Biointeractive, and recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Math Teaching. “Amazing! . . . Love that the book features the scientists and inventors, and that there is a diverse set of them. —Janine Benyus, co-founder of the Biomimicry Institute
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1580899471
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
“Young readers will be captivated by the contemporary inventors and inventions featured, and inspired to incorporate biomimicry into their own designs.” —Miranda Paul, author of One Plastic Bag and Water is Water Who's the best teacher for scientists, engineers, AND designers? Mother nature, of course! When an inventor is inspired by nature for a new creation, they are practicing something called biomimicry. Meet ten real-life scientists, engineers, and designers who imitate plants and animals to create amazing new technology. An engineer shapes the nose of his train like a kingfisher's beak. A scientist models her solar cell on the mighty leaf. Discover how we copy nature's good ideas to solve real-world problems! WINNER AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books A National Science Teacher Association Best STEM Book “Mimic Makers reveals marvels of engineering inspired by nature with images that invite careful observation and explanations that are expressive, but never over simplified.” —Kim Parfitt, AP Biology and Environmental Science teacher, curriculum developer for Howard Hughes Medical Institute Biointeractive, and recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Math Teaching. “Amazing! . . . Love that the book features the scientists and inventors, and that there is a diverse set of them. —Janine Benyus, co-founder of the Biomimicry Institute
How Nature Works
Author: Steve Parker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760700389
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A guide to the way plants and animals function and struggle to survive on Earth.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760700389
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A guide to the way plants and animals function and struggle to survive on Earth.
Kingfisher Encyclopedia of Life
Author: Graham L Banes
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0753468913
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
"Minutes, months, millennia - how long is a life on earth?"
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0753468913
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
"Minutes, months, millennia - how long is a life on earth?"
How Nature Works
Author: David Burnie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780895773913
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The second in the Reader's Digest Science series, How Nature Works is designed to open up the world of natural history to children and adults with a practical, hands-on approach to nature that involves the reader in doing experiments in order to learn. All the experiments and demostrations have been carefully planned and photographed "live" using over 700 full-color photographs. Publication date: September 1st.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780895773913
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The second in the Reader's Digest Science series, How Nature Works is designed to open up the world of natural history to children and adults with a practical, hands-on approach to nature that involves the reader in doing experiments in order to learn. All the experiments and demostrations have been carefully planned and photographed "live" using over 700 full-color photographs. Publication date: September 1st.
Kingfisher
Author: Patricia A. McKillip
Publisher: Ace
ISBN: 0425271765
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"A young man comes of age amid family secrets and revelations, and transformative magic."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Ace
ISBN: 0425271765
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"A young man comes of age amid family secrets and revelations, and transformative magic."--Provided by publisher.
The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
Author: Charles Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780753452691
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Accurate, approachable, and indispensable, this illustrated science encyclopedia is arranged in such categories as "Planet Earth", "Living Things", "Chemistry and the Elements", "Materials and Technology", "Space and Time", and "Conservation and the Environment". 2,000+ full-color photos & illustrations.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780753452691
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Accurate, approachable, and indispensable, this illustrated science encyclopedia is arranged in such categories as "Planet Earth", "Living Things", "Chemistry and the Elements", "Materials and Technology", "Space and Time", and "Conservation and the Environment". 2,000+ full-color photos & illustrations.
Nature Stories
Author: Jules Renard
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The natural world in all its richness, glimpsed variously in the house, the barnyard, and the garden, in ponds and streams, and at large in the woods and the fields, including old friends like the dog, the cat, the cow, and the pig, along with more unusual and sometimes alarming characters such as the weasel, the dragonfly, snakes of several sorts, and even a whale, not to mention ants in their seeming infinitude and a single humble potato—all these and more are the subjects of what may well be the most deft and delightful book of literary miniatures ever written. In Jules Renard’s world, plants and animals not only feel but speak (one species, the swallow, appears to write Hebrew), and yet, for all the anthropomorphic wit and whimsy the author indulges in, they guard their mystery too. Sly, funny, and touching, Nature Stories, here beautifully rendered into English by Douglas Parmée and accompanied by the wonderful ink-brush images of Pierre Bonnard with which the book was originally published, is a literary classic of inexhaustible freshness.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The natural world in all its richness, glimpsed variously in the house, the barnyard, and the garden, in ponds and streams, and at large in the woods and the fields, including old friends like the dog, the cat, the cow, and the pig, along with more unusual and sometimes alarming characters such as the weasel, the dragonfly, snakes of several sorts, and even a whale, not to mention ants in their seeming infinitude and a single humble potato—all these and more are the subjects of what may well be the most deft and delightful book of literary miniatures ever written. In Jules Renard’s world, plants and animals not only feel but speak (one species, the swallow, appears to write Hebrew), and yet, for all the anthropomorphic wit and whimsy the author indulges in, they guard their mystery too. Sly, funny, and touching, Nature Stories, here beautifully rendered into English by Douglas Parmée and accompanied by the wonderful ink-brush images of Pierre Bonnard with which the book was originally published, is a literary classic of inexhaustible freshness.
The Hollow Places
Author: T. Kingfisher
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534451145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel from the author of the “innovative, unexpected, and absolutely chilling” (Mira Grant, Nebula Award–winning author) The Twisted Ones. Pray they are hungry. Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more one fears them, the stronger they become. With her distinctive “delightfully fresh and subversive” (SF Bluestocking) prose and the strange, sinister wonder found in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, The Hollow Places is another compelling and white-knuckled horror novel that you won’t be able to put down.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534451145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel from the author of the “innovative, unexpected, and absolutely chilling” (Mira Grant, Nebula Award–winning author) The Twisted Ones. Pray they are hungry. Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more one fears them, the stronger they become. With her distinctive “delightfully fresh and subversive” (SF Bluestocking) prose and the strange, sinister wonder found in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, The Hollow Places is another compelling and white-knuckled horror novel that you won’t be able to put down.