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61) Why you shouldn't eat your boogers: gross but true things you don't want to know about your body
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnams
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Itching to know what bugs live in your eyelashes, why you get goose bumps, or how ants can be used to heal a wound? Use this delightfully disgusting collection of kid-tastic facts to gross out your friends and relatives."--Amazon.com.
62) My itchy body
Author
Series
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
My Itchy Body is a fact-filled book about everything that itches: the causes, the cures, the myths, and the reality. Medically accurate information is presented in fun and lively text, and illustrated with a comic touch. Includes fun facts and sidebars, and a glossary.
64) My healthy body
Author
Series
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
My Healthy Body is a fact-filled book about healthy habits - perfect for instilling the need to look after both mind and body in young children. Covering topics like sleep, exercise, nutrition, vaccines, eye care, social interaction, family, and hygiene this is the perfect go-to-title for general health care for 6 to 9 year olds.
67) Human body
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
With stunning footage and cutting-edge technology, National Geographic explores the human body from the inside out as never before. Four classic programs look at how the incredible human machine works, from the miraculous in-utero development of a fetus to the mechanics of a beating heart, and from the formation of skin to the amazing way complicated systems work together for sensing, adapting, reproducing, regenerating, and thinking.
Author
Publisher
ECW
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"What happens in space that causes the body to change? Learn about life in space from astronauts Is the human body built for Mars? NASA’s studies on the International Space Station show we need to fix a few things before sending people to the Red Planet. Astronauts go into space with good vision and come back needing eyeglasses. Cognition and DNA expression could be affected for years. And then there’s the discomfort of living in a tight space...
71) The anatomy student's self-test visual dictionary: an all-in-one anatomy reference and study aid
Author
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A perfect book for engaging kids in STEM: This illustrated tour of our “leftover” body parts (like the appendix, or even goosebumps) introduces readers age 7-11 to the bizarre and fascinating science of evolution. Welcome to the weirdest museum you’ll ever explore—the one inside your body. Did you know your amazing, incredible body is a walking, talking museum of evolution? In The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers, tour guides Wisdom Tooth and...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Join this photographic celebration of differing physical and neurological abilities from a National Geographic photographer. We have different ways to move around. Celebrating children of different abilities, this photographic book presents large, clear images of children moving around their community, using scooters, wheelchairs, walkers, and more. The text presents their experiences navigating the world, from the park to the beach, in simple...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Dudley presents an intriguing evolutionary interpretation to explain the persistence of alcohol-related problems. Providing a deep-time, interdisciplinary perspective on today's patterns of alcohol consumption and abuse, Dudley links the fruit-eating behavior of arboreal primates to the evolution of the sensory skills they use to identify ripe and fermented fruits that contain sugar and low levels of alcohol. In addition to introducing this new theory...
79) Cuerpo humano
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
Explora el fascinante mundo del cuerpo humano: del esqueleto a las diminutas células que hacen que el cuerpo funcione.
Examines the systems and parts of the human body and how they work, including the skin, blood, bones, lungs, and heart.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often - 200 times more often than a dog does? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? Why is the vast majority of our genetic code pointless? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there's been some kind of mistake....
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