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21) Power up
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the relationship between the human body and all the energy that it takes to make it go"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Fun pictograms and infographics about the human body make learning about math topics such as bar charts, percentages, averages and fractions easy and fun. In this book, readers go on an amazing mission inside the human body and use their mathematical skills to check their diet, test their strength, and chart their growth. Math puzzles and exercises help children build confidence in their math skills.
26) Human body
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English
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Focusing on contemporary and historical developments in the study of human anatomy, this features clear, age appropriate text, photographs, charts, graphics, and 3-D models highlighting the inner workings of our bodies -- from the framework of our skeleton to the millions of tiny cells that make our bodies work. In this updated edition, kids can discover how muscles and joints help us move, find out how x-rays work, see the network of nerves inside...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The New York Times's intrepid health reporter investigates the truth about sex, eating, exercise, and other health conundrums
For more than two years, the New York Times's science and health columnist Anahad O'Connor has tracked down the facts, fictions, and occasional fuzziness of old wives' tales, conventional-wisdom cures, and other medical mysteries. Now in this lively and fun book, he opens up his case files to disclose the experts' answers...
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Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
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They burp. They fart. They creak. They crack. Bodies make MUSIC! “Yolen and Van Cleave give voice to bodily noises—from butts that “BOOM” to giggles and gasps—in a riotously silly poetry collection perfectly tuned to a toilet humor–loving audience.”—Publishers Weekly “Funny, fact-filled, and succinct, this title will have broad appeal beyond the elementary aged audience it is intended for. A recommended first purchase.”—School...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"What Makes Your Body Work? explains the inner workings of some of the body's major organs and systems. Readers can perform fun easy experiments that will help them measure their own lung volume or understand why the brain can decipher ltteers in the wrnog oredr in a wrod. Entertaining illustrations and explanatory diagrams give details that help reveal what really makes the body work."--
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English
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"With wit, wisdom, and a sharp scalpel, Jack Hartnell dissects the medieval body and offers a remedy to our preconceptions. Medieval beliefs about the body were drastically different from ours today: Hair was thought to be a condensation of fumes emitted from the pores, ideas were supposedly committed to memory by being directly imprinted on the brain, and the womb of a goat was believed to function as a contraceptive. But while this medieval medicine...
37) More parts
Author
Series
Parts books (Tedd Arnold) volume 2
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A young boy is worried about what will happen to his body when he hears such expressions as "give him a hand, " "laugh your head off, " and "hold your tongue."
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life traveled billions of miles across billions of years to make us who we are."--
Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms than there are gains of sand in the Earth's deserts. How did these elements combine to make us human? Levitt shares the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism against injustice, this topic-driven board book offers clear, concrete language and imagery to introduce the concept of body positivity. This book serves to celebrate the uniqueness of your body and all bodies, and address the unfair rules and ideas that currently exist about bodies. It ends with motivational action points for making the world more fair for all! The backmatter offers...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"What would it mean to feel your heart-both the emotions and intuitions that run through it as well as the sensations and physicality of the organ itself? It is possible to know our hearts with such fullness-and going further, it is possible to experience each organ and bodily system with this level of holistic awareness and care. And when we do, whichever religious or spiritual tradition we practice begins to seem more readily available-as close...
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