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1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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White Blood Cells took the White Stripes from underground favorite to mainstream sensation. The band stays true to it's minimal sound on rock hits like Fell In Love With a Girl, Hotel Yorba, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, and more.
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64 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"... provides a detailed look at the topic of the human body, covering of the body's major systems and organs, as well as looking at the cellular level and at the genetics that play a part in making us who we are."--
6) The heart
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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Presents a short study of the heart, and discusses the various parts of the heart such as the aorta, pulmonary artery, and ventricles, the purpose of the red and white blood cells, how the heart and lungs work together to keep oxygen flowing to the cells of the body, and more.
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Very short introductions volume 285
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145 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
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All living things on Earth are composed of cells. A cell is the simplest unit of a self-contained living organism, and the vast majority of life on Earth consists of single-celled microbes, mostly bacteria. These consist of a simple 'prokaryotic' cell, with no nucleus. The bodies of more complex plants and animals consist of billions of 'eukaryotic' cells, of varying kinds, adapted to fill different roles - red blood cells, muscle cells, branched...
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xxi, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"On the Tibetan Plateau, there are wild yaks with blood cells thinner than those of horses' by half, enabling the endangered yaks to survive at 40 below zero and in the lowest oxygen levels of the mountaintops. But climate change is causing the snow patterns here to shift, and with the snows, the entire ecosystem. Food and water are vaporizing in this warming environment, and these beasts of ice and thin air are extraordinarily ill-equipped for the...
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x, 450 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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"Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody. Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human body -- how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and (unfortunately)...
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viii, 309 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant--one the donor and one the recipient--begin a quest for acceptance, authenticity, and most of all, love. A mesmerizing and courageous memoir: the story of two sisters uncovering the depth of their love through the life-and-death experience of a bone marrow transplant. Throughout her life,...
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