Stella & Rose's Books

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Contents

• APPLIED SCIENCES AND INVENTION
• A state-of-the art solution to the energy crisis
• A modular, collapsible, ultralight aircraft
• Computerized, personally adjusting, vision-compensating lenses
• "Dialing" chemical reaction equations
• The liquid barrier filter
• Finding drought-resistant plants with chemistry
• Collapsible module for use in general engineering
• Relating space to time in terms of energy
• The repository for germinal choice
• Healing infected wounds with ordinary sugar
• Measuring vision exactly
• Kit-form aids for the disabled (K-Fads)
• A greenhouse that stores and recovers energy
• Banking the genome of endangered species
• Development of a microminiaturized telephone
• An instrument for drawing in three dimensions
• An electronic notebook for the sightless
• Determining the site of respiratory sounds
• Harnessing ocean waves to produce electric power
• "Anti-bumping therapy" - A knuckle against ailments
• Toward more efficient human-powered transportation
• Novel arrangements for measuring solar radiation
• A giant, self-propelled potato-reaping machine
• Target droplet sufficiency (TDS) - for better bug sprays
• The circumferometer
• A search for usable magnetic energy
• Earthquake prediction through radio wave anomalies?
• The crinkle motor - a new design concept
• Producing inexpensive animal protein
• A new approach to diagnosing and treting uterine malignancies
• Converting industry from military to civilian work
• How do animals navigate?
• Alcohol for the automobile
• Building a radical, light-displacement racing yacht
• Clearing and fertilizing with one machine
• Tree rings as an archaeological dating tool
• Small, cheap hydroelectric plants
• Turning a weed into nutritious animal feed
• A simple cost-efficient solar tracker
• Nusatsum House: Toward a triangulate environment
• A new thermodynamic hydraulic engine
• Building bridges in rural Nepal
• Post-slaughter infusion for tenderizing beef
• Energy-Efficient windows
• An improved prosthetic foot for amputees
• New vascular access for dialysis patients
• Creating a compact power station in space
• Obtaining energy from natural resonances
• Turning waste sugar cane pulp into protein fodder
• Direct conversion of biomass to alcohol
• Language text editor for international radio communications
• A new microscope for metallurgy
• Analyzing chromosomes by three-dimensional scanning electron microscopy
• Developing a new Spanish stenography
• Solar sail demonstration project
• The Ingrid throught processor
• Non-invasive evaluation of the left ventricular function
• The Nene - an airplane to set world records
• The "ABC" system of providing more food more cheaply
• Can the cotton root herb provide a simple natural contraceptive?
• Man and machine compatible communication elements
• Automotive power grid and energy storage silo system
• The all-plastic dike of the future
• "Domesticating" soil bacteria to beat the problem of soil erosion
• Chemical communication in bovine reproduction
• Aviation disaster salvation system
• Mineral accretion for underwater construction
• The Jorocte plant: a potential rabies cure
• High-altitude piston-engine, propeller driven plane
• Vertical-axis windmill with high-efficiency alternator
• Developing low-cost medical apparatus for monitoring patients
• Development of an ultralight aircraft
• Space stratagem and spastracon
• A simple method for fractionating amniotic fluid phospholipids
• Creating better corn via a systems approach
• The world's fastest sailboat
• Steps toward a flat wll-hung television
• Could an anti-gravity substance propel manned spacecraft to the planets?
• Virbela flowforms
• Improving ultrasonic medical imaging
• Biofeedback control of functional myopia
• A flat-plate solar cooker for rural areas in third world countries
• A portable milking machine for small sheep flocks
• Polymacromolecules - a new, low-cost engineering tool
• The indicycle - new mobility for handicapped youngsters
• Cobalt Chlorophyll as a possible cure for pernicious anemia
• Honorable mention winners having nonreleased projects
• EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY:
• Five weeks in a ballooon a la Jules Verne
• A survey of the last hunters and gatherers
• Cumbria schools exploration society Himalayan Expedition
• Polar Bears - Active yet hibernating?
• Increasing the biological productivity of the Arabian sea
• Exploring the Libyan Sahara for the earliest Hominids
• Solving the enigma of fire-walking
• Re-enacting the voyage of the first square rigger fleet to Australia
• Rediscovering and signposting the ancient Inca Trail
• New Britain's giant potholes: the ultimate caving challenge?
• Collecting, growing, and saving a tall carnivorous plant
• An institute to save our linguistic heritage
• First navigation of the Yangtze River, from sea to source
• Earthport: launching the peaceful exploration of space
• Expedition to study human performance on the summit of Mt Everest
• Patagonian exploration expedition
• Investigating three endangered species in Peru's Andes
• African cryptozoological exploration
• Mexico's folkloric music - exploring a cultural treasure trove
• Developing the winged bean in Asia
• An Ichthyological exploration of Borneo
• To "sail" by land yacht across Australia
• Looking for the mind
• The Mysterious pre-columbian stone spheres of Costa Rica
• Exploring the submarine river at Cassis
• First successful transatlantic crossing by balloon
• To discover a lost ancient city in Brazil
• The women's expedition to K-2: 8611 Meters high
• Masai language and symbols: keys for survival
• Canoeing the Tamur River in Nepal
• The exploration of Phobos
• Creating an illustrated mobile "zoo"
• Crossing the Sahara with hovercrafts
• Maritime research expedition to Antarctica
• Finding the pyramids of the Amazon
• The traditional music of Papua New Guinea
• The Chicha archaeological project in Peru
• Long-term human survival at very high altitudes
• THE ENVIRONMENT:
• Hybridizing and raising beautiful new plants
• A blueprint for saving Malawai's evergreen forest birds
• The university of development
• Radio-tracking the snow leopard in the Himalayas
• Halting the impact of mechanized dry farming near the Blue Nile
• A videotape library of historically significant architecture
• Special well equipment to fight Mauritania's deadly drought
• The "world of wuvulu"
• Daga farmers' self-help in Papua New Guinea
• A power company and endangered species: examples of coexistence
• Reconstructing earthquake-damaged town clocks
• Conservation of the Indian wild buffalo
• A complete resource recovery system for solid waste in the third world
• Project pro-Brazilian fauna: raising a country's ecology conciousness
• Making a new life cycle in harmony with nature
• Field planting jojoba - salvation for the whales?
• Avoiding flood hazards with computerized terrain modelling
• Chipangali wildlife orphanage - rescues and returns
• "Capping" undersea oil leaks
• Rehabilitation of a valley: its flora, fauna, and people
• Induced upwelling to make a lagoonal ecosystem
• Studying the ecology and behavior of lions and hyneas in the Kalahari
• Exploring the Qattara depression in Egypt before the flood
• Community environment and resources development in a Nigerian town
• Prefabricated, adjustable dams - a low-technology land saver
• Biomap and photographic atlas of the Mediterranean coastline
• The mystery of the suicide birds of Assam
• The Minter Gardens: nature in full bloom
• An explorers' guide to Peruvian ecosystems
• Conservation of the Arid-Land fauna of Niger
• Enchanted island - outstanding use of alternative energy sources
• Construction an aerial walkway in Cameroon's rain forest
• An underwater park for Sardinia - protecting the submarine world
• A program for protecting and improving the Mediterranean forests
• The directory of ancient cities in Northeastern Thailand
• Establishing a captive breeding center for parrots
• Wildlife ranching and research
• La Barca Laboratorio (The Lab Boat)
• Environmental educaton "on the move"
• Preflite - a unique, new oceanographic university
• Enough clean water for the people
• Antarctic gene bank
• Fighting pasture pollution with dung beetles
• The unique soft corals of Taiwan's South Bay - endangered by heat