Description:I heartily recommend this book for browsing or complete reading. It presents a cross section of ideas of biominiaturization for developing compact energy and chemical systems along the lines of insect or arthropod systems. Ideas are general and presented verbally to make them available to the most readers including entomologists, systems biologists, engineers and others. Since its publication in 2006 it has attracted a wide and diverse international audience and thus appears to be fulfilling its purpose of stimulating imaginative "outside the box" thinking.