A perfect STEM resource: 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...
Human body
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Author:Poliquin, RachelSummary: -
Author:Mayer, Emeran A.Summary:Dr. Emeran Mayer, executive director of the UCLA Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience, offers a revolutionary look at the developing science of the microbiome, teaching us how to harness the power of the mind-gut...
- Author:Taylor, Sonya ReneeSummary:
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 difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies. The Body Is...
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Author:Collier, CarolSummary:Following the metaphysical and epistemological threads that have led to our modern conception of the body as a machine, the book explores views of the body in the history of philosophy. Its central thesis is that the Cartesian paradigm...
- Author:Ennes, HironSummary:
A surreal and horrifying debut, Hiron Ennes's Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy."A wonderful new entry to Gothic science fiction, impeccably clever and atmospheric. Think Wuthering...
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Author:Hargreaves, KateSummary:Welcome to Kate Hargreaves' Leak, where the relationship between language and the body lives in the bumps and bruises that in turn become new ways of understanding the borders and leaks of our everyday existence. In Leak, bodies lose...
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Author:Bellonzi, VincentSummary:Health Recklessly Abandoned is designed to bring people up to date on research that is showing just how much impact we have on our own quality of life. Diseases that were once believed to be fate, or genetically programmed, are being...
- Author:Emery, JoannaSummary:
Icky, sticky, slimy and smelly - the human body is amazing, but it's pretty nasty sometimes too! Find answersto your questions about your body: Whay are boogers green? What is a fart and why does it smess? Where does belly button...
- Author:Watson, GaladrielSummary:
These people did what?!
Join author Galadriel Watson as she takes us on a journey of discovery—a tour of the human body’s amazing abilities, featuring masters of muscle, speed demons, brain bosses, and more! Extreme Abilities is... - Author:Cooley, DennisSummary:
The body may be feared. It may be a site of philosophic and theological weakness, a place of fear and contamination. The body may be weak. It is ephemeral and impure compared to what is supposed in an abstracted world of pure intellect...
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Author:Rosen, Michael J., Kassoy, Ben, Lawless, M. SweeneySummary:Part brainy quiz book, part brawny stand-up comedy and all one hysterical anatomy lesson, Any Body's Guess!: Quirky Quizzes About What Makes You Tick poses 100 questions about this amazing machine, the human body, with its hopelessly...
