Jennifer Swanson
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"Did you know that scientists have developed a bionic tool shaped like an elephant's trunk that helps lift heavy objects? Or that the needle-like pointed beak of the kingfisher bird encouraged engineers in Japan to change the design of the Shinkansen "bullet trains" to reduce noise? Across multiple fields of study and methods of problem-solving, scientists are turning to biomimicry, or engineering inspired by biology or nature, to make all kinds of...
2) Everything you need to ace chemistry in one big fat notebook: the complete high school study guide
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"This Big Fat Notebook covers everything you need to know during a year of high school chemistry class, breaking down one big bad subject into accessible units.
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"In the late 1930s...the world was again at war, hardly more than twenty years after the First World War had ended... Leaders of every country had to try to end the war as fast as possible and using whatever mean they could. That meant coming up with secret operations meant to deceive, deflect, and confuse their enemies."--front flap.