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Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this book the author, a Harvard evolutionary biologist presents an account of how the human body has evolved over millions of years, examining how an increasing disparity between the needs of Stone Age bodies and the realities of the modern world are fueling a paradox of greater longevity and chronic disease. It illuminates the major transformations that contributed key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based...
25) My body
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Young children are fascinated by their eyes, ears, nose, fingers, and toes. Now here's a board book that teaches toddlers all about the human body, with shapes, sizes, colors, and super-simple facts."--Publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
You are now entering the hair-raising world of human body facts, where you'll find the scintillating science behind your electrical heart, your unique stench and those bothersome but vital nose hairs. Learn the astonishing ways your body keeps itself alive, even whilst providing a home for billions of organisms that aren't actually human...
27) Human body
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Human Body is a concise guide to the structure, functions, and disorders of the body. Using full-color, highly detailed illustrations and clear, accessible language, this book is a fascinating introduction to how the body works and what may go wrong. The first part, Anatomy of the Human Body, begins with a medical atlas that shows how the parts of the body fit together. Each individual body system - such as the skeletal and digestive systems - is...
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-seven contributors-including model Tyra Banks, gymnast Aly Raisman, and bestselling YA authors-explore the world in their unique bodies through essays, lists, comics, and art, from the award-winning editor of (Don't) Call Me Crazy"--
We all experience the world in a body, but we don't usually take the time to explore what it really means to have and live in one. In this collection of essays, lists, comics and art, readers will explore how...
31) Human body
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The human body is an amazing and intricate machine, and its many parts and systems work together to keep us active and healthy! In this book, young readers will learn more about the human body, from the skeleton that gives us shape to the heart that pumps our blood to the skin that holds us together. Diagrams and pictures show how the body's parts fit together, and fact boxes provide further details about how it all works.
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Co
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."--
34) My body
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
"Introduces basic anatomy to young readers, including major systems and organs, health, and safety"--
Author
Publisher
EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"What is blood for? What do muscles look like? How many bones does a body have? This book is packed with illustrations showing organs, bones, x-rays and scans, to help you build up a complete picture of the human body and how it works." -- back cover.
36) Me and my body
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the human body includes hands-on projects that help readers learn about the different parts of the body and how they work.
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
""To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves. . . . 'The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace." -Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum"--
"Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Uses the perspective of tiny people traveling through a man's body to present its various systems and organs and how they work.
A book that actually takes you inside - and around - the human body to see how it works, with the help of some truly unique illustrations and some very small people! Explore your brain, your bones, and everything in between in incredible cross-section drawings of all the body systems. Inside each one are teams of tiny characters...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This three-part series uses cutting-edge graphics to reveal the surprisingly beautiful biological processes that keep one alive. Discover the ingenious ways your body develops, adapts, and endures, and witness the fascinating and finely tuned systems that keep one's body motoring, and the scientists guessing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
If it were possible to shrink down and take a tour of a human body, would you want to go? Readers will get that chance when they explore the body of a guy named Marty, who will let them check out the body systems that keep his heart beating and his body moving every day. With the help of a tiny ship that goes through his ears and all the way through his digestive system, readers will learn exactly what they are made of with this great book.
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