The Secret Language Of Animals
- 480 pages
- 17 hours of reading
A wonderfully written, beautifully illustrated guide to the behaviour and body language of the world's most fascinating and watchable animals.
Janine M. Benyus Books
Janine M. Benyus is the author of six books on biomimicry, an approach to innovation that draws inspiration from nature. Her seminal work advances the thesis that human beings should consciously emulate nature's genius in their designs, products, and processes. Through her writings and advocacy, she champions the naturalization of biomimicry into our culture, inspiring sustainable solutions for human systems. Her approach bridges scientific understanding with the imperative to design a life-sustaining future.
Biomimicry
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
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.
