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276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Bone is as embedded in our culture as it is in our bodies. Our species has made instruments and jewelry from bone, treated the dead like collectors' items, put our faith in skull bumps as guides to human behavior, and arranged skeletons into macabre tributes to the afterlife. Switek makes a compelling case for getting better acquainted with our skeletons, in all their surprising roles. Bridging the worlds of paleontology, anthropology, medicine, and...
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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Explains why the skeletal system is important; explains how bones work, describing bones' sizes and shapes, joints, and bones' interaction with muscles; and provides guidance on keeping one's bones healthy.
14) Skeleton Coast
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373 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Narrowly escaping following a mission on the Congo River, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon rescue beautiful Sloane Macintyre -- who is looking for a lost ship that may be carrying a fortune in diamonds -- when her boat is attacked off the African coast and find themselves up against a deranged militant who plans to launch a devastating force of nature against those who oppose him.
15) Skeleton hiccups
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Ghost tries to help Skeleton get rid of the hiccups.
16) Skulls!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"A non-fiction picture book about skulls, and all the things they are good for."--
18) Body bones
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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This book contains facts about bone growth, the varieties of bones, and how bones work with other body systems. It includes photographs of people and animals which are overlaid with diagrams of skeletons.
19) Bone dog
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Although devastated when his pet dog dies, a young boy goes trick-or-treating and receives a timely visit from an old friend during a scary encounter with graveyard skeletons.
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"If you didn't have any bones, what would you look like? It wouldn't be pretty! Read all about vertebrates--animals with bones--and find out just how bones shape what all kinds of animals look like." --Back cover.
Compares animal skeletons and discusses the size, length, and strength of their bones.
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