Awesome Innovations Inspired by Spiders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Awesome Innovations Inspired by Spiders write by Jim Corrigan. This book was released on 2020-09-21. Awesome Innovations Inspired by Spiders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spiders may be creepy, but they know amazing tricks. Some species have learned to fly. Others like to hangout underwater. Spider silk is strong and flexible. Spiders use it for more than just webs. Scientists keep trying to mimic spider silk. Once they succeed, people will find many awesome uses.
Biomimicry
Biomimicry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biomimicry write by Janine M. Benyus. This book was released on 2009-08-11. Biomimicry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 they: 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.
Beastly Bionics
Beastly Bionics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beastly Bionics write by Jennifer Swanson. This book was released on 2020. Beastly Bionics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discover more than 40 examples of technology influenced by animals, meet some of the scientists and the story behind their inventions, and learn about some of the incredible creatures who have inspired multiple creation
The Spider's Strategy
The Spider's Strategy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spider's Strategy write by Amit S. Mukherjee. This book was released on 2008-09-10. The Spider's Strategy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To thrive in a world where networks of companies increasingly compete with other networks, managers can no longer focus solely on excellence in planning and execution. In The Spider’s Strategy, top business consultant Amit S. Mukherjee provides the tools you need to sense and respond to unexpected events. He shows why and how managers in your company must apply four powerful “Design Principles” today: Change everyday work practices by embedding “sense and response” within your normal plan-and-execute processes. Promote collaboration across partner companies by establishing practical mechanisms that make “win-win” a basis for action not an empty slogan. Ensure that work really teaches by assuring the culture, processes, and organizational structure to improve your company’s ability to learn. Implement those key technological capabilities that allow the network to function seamlessly. The heart of this book includes proven implementation advice based on conversations with successful innovators at HP, Nokia, and beyond. Mukherjee offers new insight into everything from work practices to culture and corporate organization and shows how to overcome even the most stubborn obstacles to effective collaboration amongst partners.
A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia
A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia write by Robert Whyte. This book was released on 2017-06. A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Australians have a love–hate relationship with spiders. Some spiders, such as the Redback and the Sydney Funnelweb, inspire fear. Yet Peacock Spiders, with their colourful fan-spreading courtship dances, have won rapturous appreciation worldwide. A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia uses photographs of living animals to help people identify many of the spiders they encounter. Featuring over 1300 colour photographs, it is the most comprehensive account of Australian spiders ever published. With more than two-thirds of Australian spiders yet to be scientifically described, this book sets the scene for future explorations of our extraordinary Australian fauna. This field guide will be enjoyed by naturalists and anyone with an interest in learning more about Australia's incredible arachnids.
