The Secret Language Of Animals
- 480pages
- 17 heures de lecture
A wonderfully written, beautifully illustrated guide to the behaviour and body language of the world's most fascinating and watchable animals.
Janine M. Benyus Livres
Janine M. Benyus est l'auteure de six livres sur la biomimétique, une approche de l'innovation qui s'inspire de la nature. Son œuvre fondamentale défend la thèse selon laquelle les êtres humains devraient consciemment imiter le génie de la nature dans leurs conceptions, leurs produits et leurs processus. Par ses écrits et son plaidoyer, elle promeut la naturalisation de la biomimétique dans notre culture, inspirant des solutions durables pour les systèmes humains. Son approche combine la compréhension scientifique avec l'impératif de concevoir un avenir qui soutient la vie.
Biomimicry
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
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.
