The Shark's Paintbrush

Author: Jay Harman
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1857889312
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 441

Book Description
The wave of the future has been around since the beginning of times: it's called Nature. Let inventor and entrepreneur Jay Harman introduce you to stunning solutions to some of the world's thorniest problems. Why does the bumblebee have better aerodynamics than a 747? How can copying a butterfly wing reduce the world's lighting energy bill by 80%? How will fleas' knees and bees' shoulders help scientists formulate a near-perfect rubber? Today an interdisciplinary and international group of scientists, inventors and engineers is turning to nature to innovate and find elegant solutions to human problems. The principle driving this transformation is called biomimicry, and Harman shares a wide range of examples of how we're borrowing from natural models to invent profitable, green solutions to pressing industrial challenges. Aimed at a business audience, aspiring entrepreneurs, environmentalists and general science readers, The Shark's Paintbrush reflects a force of change in the new global economy that does more than simply gratify human industrial ambition; it teaches us how to live in harmony with nature and opens bright opportunities for a better future.

Biomimicry

Author: Janine M. Benyus
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061958921
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
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.

Neighborhood Sharks

Author: Katherine Roy
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 146688083X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them—just twenty-six miles from the Golden Gate Bridge! A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants dine on steaks, salads, and sandwiches, the great white sharks return to California's Farallon Islands to dine on their favorite meal: the seals that live on the island's rocky coasts. Massive, fast, and perfectly adapted to hunting after 11 million years of evolution, the great whites are among the planet's most fearsome, fascinating, and least understood animals. In the fall of 2012, Katherine Roy visited the Farallons with the scientists who study the islands' shark population. She witnessed seal attacks, observed sharks being tagged in the wild, and got an up close look at the dramatic Farallons—a wildlife refuge that is strictly off-limits to all but the scientists who work there. Neighborhood Sharks is an intimate portrait of the life cycle, biology, and habitat of the great white shark, based on the latest research and an up-close visit with these amazing animals.

Color-Changing Animals

Author: Valerie Yaw
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1617721220
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
Introduces the way animals use their individual coloring to survive in the wild.

Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!

Author: Lori Greiner
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0804176442
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the stars of ABC’s Shark Tank and QVC’s Clever & Unique Creations by Lori Greiner comes a hands-on, nuts-and-bolts guide to getting a new product or company off the ground and making it a success. Turn your idea into a reality. Become your own boss. Make your first million. Achieve financial freedom. Lori Greiner shows you how. Invent It, Sell It, Bank It! is a hands-on, nuts-and-bolts guide to getting a new product or company off the ground and making it profitable. Sharing her own secret formula and personal stories along the way, Lori provides vital information and advice on topics that can often intimidate, frustrate, and stump aspiring entrepreneurs. Offering behind-the-scenes insights into her experiences on ABC’s Shark Tank and QVC-TV’s Clever & Unique Creations by Lori Greiner, as well as valuable lessons learned from the mistakes and triumphs of her early career, Lori proves that, with hard work and the right idea, anyone can turn themselves into the next overnight success. Lori covers such topic as . . . • Market research: Is your idea a hero or a zero? Don’t be so fixated on the end result that you forget to make something that people actually want to buy. • Product design: I have an idea, now what’s next? From concept to prototype to final product: How do I make it and where do I start? • Funding: Although loans, investments, and crowd-sourcing are great ways to access cash, first tap into your own resources as wisely as possible. • Manufacturing: Seeing your final product roll off the assembly line is a magical moment, but there are things to watch out for so you get there in a cost-effective way. • Protecting your idea: To patent or not to patent, and other things you can do to safeguard your idea. • The secrets to selling successfully: You got the product made, now learn how to get people to buy it!

Shark Patrol

Author: Ron Hirschi
Publisher: Mutual Publishig LLC
ISBN: 9781949307009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description

Shark Dog!

Author: Ged Adamson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780062457134
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
It's a shark! No wait, it's a dog! It's Shark Dog! From author-illustrator Ged Adamson comes the funny and sweet story of Shark Dog: half shark, half dog, and a one-of-a-kind pet. Shark Dog is no ordinary pet. Sometimes when he does dog things, he's more like a shark. And sometimes when he does shark things, he's more like a dog. But when Shark Dog gets homesick, he starts thinking maybe he belongs with the other shark dogs. Will he go back to Shark Dog Island or decided to stay in his new home? With quirky and colorful art, Shark Dog! is perfect for fans of such funny books as Hello, My Name Is Octicorn and The Adventures of Beekle.

Dot Likes to Dig

Author: Laura Appleton-Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781605410678
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 21

Book Description
"These books are decodeable with the knowledge of the 26 phonetic alphabet letter sounds and the ability to blend those sounds together, plus one new isolated sound and/or spelling per book"--Publisher's website description.

Color, Cut, and Fold: Ocean Animals

Author: Insight Kids
Publisher: iSeek
ISBN: 9781647223014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Develop your child's imagination, creativity and love of oceanlife with 15 sea creature models for them to cut out, color and display. Cut out and decorate Sharks, Turtles, Whales and more as your child unleashed their creativity with crayon, pencil or markers (sold separately). Spark Creativity. There is no limit to what your child can create with Color, Cut, and Fold: Ocean Animals. Use whatever art materials you have on hand to create amazing and unique art. Develop Fine Motor Skills. Easy to follow instructions allow your child to cut out their own models, assisting in the development and improvement of their fine motor skills. Perfect At home Activity. Whether for homeschooling, weekend fun or after school projects, Color, Cut, and Fold: Ocean Animals is perfect to keep your child inspired, engaged and entertained during their home life.

Doug Argue: Letters to the Future

Author: CLAUDE. PECK
Publisher: Skira
ISBN: 9788857243276
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Large-scale abstract paintings by Doug Argue: a comprehensive survey and exploration of his influences This monograph presents 170 reproductions from the prolific career of New York-based, Minnesota-born painter Doug Argue (born 1962), from early expressionist figurative paintings to a 2018 series inspired by modernists. The book includes essays exploring Argue's influences and a poem by Ocean Vuong.