The Usborne Complete Book of the Human Body: Internet Linked (Complete Books)
by Anna Claybourne Author
(From Amazon): Would you like to take a look at vocal cords? Would you like to see the longest fingernails on record!? Real photos and drawings teach fascinating facts about our marvelous human body! Covers cells, brain, DNA, muscles, bones, circulation, breathing, digestion, and more-use this for a thorough semester study of the human body. Experiments and activities show you how to take your pulse, test your reaction time, fool your brain with optical illusions and more. Paperback, 112 pages, ages 9-12 years.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780794515577
- Print Status
- In Print
- Contents
- 54
- Pages
- 112
- Publisher
- Usborne Books
- Copyright
- 2006
Contents
- 6 Body Building Blocks
- 8 Your amazing body
- 10 Body systems
- 12 Cells
- 14 Genes and DNA
- 16 Muscles and Bones
- 18 The skeleton
- 20 Joints
- 22 Muscles and tendons
- 24 How muscles work
- 26 Moving without thinking
- 28 Reflexes
- 29 Skin, Hair, and Nails
- 30 What is skin?
- 32 Skin changes
- 34 Hair and nails
- 36 The Brain and the Senses
- 38 Your amazing brain
- 40 How the brain works
- 42 Seeing
- 44 Hearing
- 46 Tasting and Smelling
- 48 Sensation and pain
- 50 Thinking
- 52 Fool your brain
- 53 Breathing and Circulation
- 54 Breathing equipment
- 56 Inside your lungs
- 58 The heart
- 60 Circulation
- 62 In the blood
- 64 The lymphatic system
- 65 Eating and Drinking
- 66 Taking in food
- 68 In your stomach
- 70 In the intestines
- 72 Waste
- 74 Health and Medicine
- 76 Health and sickness
- 78 Diseases
- 80 The immune system
- 82 Drugs and treatments
- 84 Operations
- 86 Complementary medicine
- 87 Body Changes
- 88 Conception and birth
- 90 Growing up
- 92 Hormones
- 94 Getting old
- 96 Facts and Figures
- 98 Facts, figures and records
- 100 Timeline
- 101 Who's who
- 102 Experiments and activities
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