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• Title:Biomimicry : [Inventions Inspired by Nature] / written by Dora Lee ; illustrated by Margot Thompson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Lee, Dora, 1968-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Thompson, Margot, 1965- ill.
  
• Published/Created:Toronto ; Tonawanda, NY : Kids Can Press, ©2011.
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at EDUCATION LIBRARY lab room 155Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: T173.8 .L44 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: T173.8 .L44 2011
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Biomimicry--Juvenile literature.
  Technological innovations--Juvenile literature.
  
• Subject(s): Biomimicry.
  Technological innovations.
  
• Description:40 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm.
  
• Summary:Discusses the many human inventions that have been inspired by nature, including biodegradable plastics, Velcro, and renewable energy resources, and suggests other natural processes that can be used to benefit modern human civilization.
  
• Notes:Includes index.
  
• ISBN:1554534674
  9781554534678
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Learning from Mother Nature
  Nature thought of it first
  Why should we copy nature?
  Shaped for survival
  Smart structures
  Magic materials
  Creative communications
  Medical marvels
  On the move
  Designs that work
  Pollution-free power
  Dealing with the tough stuff
  Computing, nature's way
  Machines that move like animals...
  ... and think like humans
  Nature's nanotechnology
  Sustaining our future
  Nature, the teacher
  No Doubt About It
  Among the Idiots
  Hero and an Inspiration
  Rich Loam of Home
  In The Beginning
  Govan Childhood
  Street and School
  Tools of the Trade
  Saint at Perth
  Into Europe with Dunfermline
  Learning to Coach
  Playing for Scotland?
  Rangers: Welcome to Hell
  Fighting at Falkirk
  University of Life
  East Stirlingshire
  Small Wonders
  Saints Alive: The Love Street Years
  Building on Baldy
  Stark Improvement
  Nest of Vipers
  Rancour and Defeat
  Forgotten Man
  Aberdeen
  Emotional Battering
  Ferguson is Working
  Making Winners
  Chastened by Liverpool
  Strachan and the Shankly Tapes
  Fooling Bayern
  Beating Real Madrid
  Flailing at Ferguson
  Great Stuff, Lads
  After Strachan and McGhee
  Doing Deals
  Snubbing McGhee
  Life and Death with Big Jock
  Aberdeen, Itchy Feet and Scotland
  It's Barcelona or United
  At the World Cup
  Pittodrie Postscript
  Manchester United: Early Days
  Chat with Bobby Charlton
  Drinking to the Past
  Turning Off the Fans
  Youth Culture
  Jousting with Graham
  Strachan Leaves the Nest
  Welcome to Hell
  You Bastard!
  United: Steps To Greatness
  Beating Barcelona
  Dreaming On
  Darren's Hamstring
  Ah, Cantona ...
  Seeing Red, Seeing Himself
  European Nights Off
  United: Apres Moi Le Treble
  Ted Beckham's Lad
  I Will Love It ... Love It
  Putting on Spectacles
  New Labour: His Part in its Victory
  Arsenal on Top
  Le Deluge
  Winning Plenty Without Kidd
  What a Knight
  Managing to Hurt
  United: The Encore
  Goals Galore
  Threatening to Quit
  Business with Jason
  No Wenger, No Eriksson
  Ferguson Stays
  To a Long Life
  Iraq Diaries
  Rock and a Hard Place
  Magnier's Gloves Come Off
  Sadder and Wiser
  United: Ronaldo And Rooney
  Wine with Mourinho
  Pizza with Wenger
  Fighting Back
  Meet the Glazers
  Winter of Keane
  Lose And The Boss
  Better than Quaresma
  After Schmeichel, van der Sar
  Talking a Blinder
  Rafa's Rant
  Beaten by Barca
  Ronaldo Goes, the Debt Grows
  No More the Champions
  Legacy
  `Not Today but Tomorrow'
  Heroes
  Power and Control
  Where Stands He?
  Loyal to the Last.