Annonated Recommendade Reading List ( part 1 )
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Animal Architecture. Jennifer Owings Dewey. 1991. |
Examines how creatures like arthropods, vertebrates, birds, and rodents build their homes. |
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Animal Architecture. Karl von Frisch. 1974. |
Examines how creatures like arthropods, vertebrates, birds, and rodents build their homes. |
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Design and Nature II. Ed M. W. Collins et. Al. 2004. |
Contains proceedings of 2nd international conference on design and nature. Brings together researcher around the world on a variety of studies involving nature’s significance for modern scientific thought and design. |
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Wonders of Animal Architecture. Sigmund A. Lavine. 1964. |
One in a series of Dodd, Mead Wonders series, Lavine adds another interesting and informative book based on his own experiences of studying the ways animals build their homes. |
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Biography |
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Buckminster Fuller’s Universe. Lloyd Steven Sieden. 1989. |
Explores Fuller’s examination of significant underlying principles in nature. |
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Biology |
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Color in Nature. Penelope Farrant. 1999. |
Explores the role of color in nature, including astronomy, botany, geology, physics and zoology. |
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Design and Nature II. Ed M. W. Collins et. Al. 2004. |
Contains proceedings of 2nd international conference on design and nature. Brings together researcher around the world on a variety of studies involving nature’s significance for modern scientific thought and design. |
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Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell. Boyce Rensberger. 1998. |
A digest of everything currently known about the mechanisms by which living cells perform their myriad of tasks. |
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Natural Earth, Living Earth. Miranda Smith and Steve Parker. 1996. |
Full-color photography shows how living things interact with the functions and conditions of the earth. |
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The Work of Nature: How the Diversity of Life Sustains Us. Yvonne Baskin, et al. 1997. |
Baskin examines the threats posed to humans by the loss of biodiversity. Biodiversity is much more than number of species -- it includes the complexity, richness, and abundance of nature at all levels |