In this book, beginning readers will explore the role of the skin in a healthy human body. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn more about how the skin works and how it helps us every day. A diagram illustrates the anatomy of the skin, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn more about skin using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites....

Three tornadoes are bearing down on the town of Summerville. Under cover of this freak storm is a more serious threat, a vindictive killer known as Red.

It's the largest human organ and keeps everything else is place-what is it? It's skin! And, there's a lot more to it than meets the eye. In fact, microscopic bugs, fungus, and bacteria may all be found on the skin. Readers travel across this large body part with some helpful, friendly kids who narrate the whole journey and impart essential facts about the human habitat of the skin. A colorful design, complete with graphic organizers, complements the...

Salacious, funny, and painfully emotive, Skin is a provocative and ruminative parable about our deep-rooted urge to ostracize the freakish and shun the disfigured among us. An unconventional love story, Bowman probes the surface to reveal deeper, more lingering impulses connected to desire, understanding, and love. It is only on very extraordinary occasions when beauty and the beast get together, but they do here. Skin is a cutting and startling debut...

A journey of exploration...A journey of healing...A journey of love...Two people are forced by circumstances into a therapy class to help them deal with their problems. They are strangers. Forced to be partners. Naturally opposites. Kane is dealing with anger of betrayal at the deepest level, needing to find his way back to forgiveness. Tania is a previous rape victim hoping to deal with her fear of intimacy so she can have a loving relationship....

Hey, what's that stuff that covers my bones? It's my skin. Learn all about the different colors of skin and what it does. Everyone's skin is different but everyone's skin is special!

When moonlighting medical students harvesting skin from a corpse for temporary use accidentally take it from the wrong donor, the results are catastrophic: a New York City hospital ward is destroyed in a bloodbath, and an elderly professor, admitted for a routine skin graft, is suddenly the city's most wanted fugitive. Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are the only ones to suspect something more ominous than a medical procedure gone awry. As the FBI...

Als Christian den Link zu dem Video anklickt, ist er entsetzt über das, was er sieht: einen bis zur Unkenntlichkeit entstellten menschlichen Körper, der regungslos auf dem Wasser eines Swimmingpools treibt. Das ist nur der Höhepunkt einer ganzen Reihe von seltsamen Ereignissen, die sich in Christians sonst so geregeltem Leben plötzlich häufen. Doch als er sich der Polizei anvertraut, reagiert diese anders als erwartet. Christian hat das Gefühl,...

Based on a true story, SKIN follows Sandra Laing, a distinctly mixed-race South African woman born to white parents during the apartheid era.