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xiii, 198 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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The gut microbiome is known as "the forgotten organ" because it is not identified as part of the human body per se, yet it has an immense influence on many systems in the body. The Gut Microbiome: Exploring the Connection between Microbes, Diet, and Health explains what the microbiome is, the many functions it serves, how it can be either harmed or supported by our actions, and the role it may play in various diseases and in determining our overall...
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96 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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What do humans and robots have in common? Find out in this intriguing illustrated nonfiction book that encourages kids to discover their inner robot. Bots and Bods is an illustrated guide for kids looking to explore anatomy and technology and how they're related. How do we both move or sense the world? How does robot intelligence compare to our own? Middle-grade readers will find these answers and more among the four sections: Body structures Muscle...
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Of course you have a body, but do you have a clue where all the body parts you've got are found and what they do? You think you have a handle on your anatomy, but can you handle tricky riddle poems? Come on--let's see."--
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""To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves. . . . 'The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace." -Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum"--
45) Anatomía gruesa
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Español
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¡Sangre, tripas y cerebros! No son bonitos, pero nos mantienen vivos. Averigua la verdad sobre nuestros viscosos cuerpos para aprender qué es exactamente lo que nos hace humanos (y lo que nos hace tan asquerosos).
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Frank Einstein volume 3
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English
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"Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity), and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival -- this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of the human body"--
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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English
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"Everybody has a body. Whether you're short, tall, fat, thin, hairy, bald, whether you use a wheelchair or have a limb difference, we all rely on our bodies to take us through the world. From hiking a mountain to playing baseball to exploring an aquarium, debut author Molli Jackson Ehlert and illustrator Lorian Tu show us all the different ways that bodies can look and the things they can do, with representation of all different types of bodies."--...
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44 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Español
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¿Qué es? Adivina con estas divertidas rimas todas las partes de tu cuerpo. Desde la cabeza, pasando por el tronco, hasta llegar a los pies. Por dentro y por fuera, ¡tu cuerpo es una máquina perfecta! ¡Atrévete a descubrirlo!
Make a good guess from which part of the human body from the riddles.
54) The body book: the law of hunger, the science of strength, and other ways to love your amazing body
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280 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Here the author shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide that is grounded in science and inspired by personal experience. Throughout her career, she has been a role model for millions of women. By her own candid admission, though, this fit, glamorous, but down to earth star was not always health conscious. Learning about the inseparable link between nutrition and the body was just one of the...
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8 videodiscs (1440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 191 pages ; 19 cm)
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English
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You live with it 24 hours a day, but how well do you really know it? This course is an owner's manual to a remarkably complex, resilient, and fascinating structure: the human body. Using detailed color illustrations, life-sized models, and, even a video shot during surgery, this course examines the major systems of the body, explaining exactly how things work and why they sometimes don't. Each lecture concentrates on a particular organ or organ...
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114 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Español
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"Hay enfermedades como el asma, las alergias, el acné e incluso la obesidad que pueden ser causadas por los microbios que viven dentro nuestro intestino y que, por lo tanto, pueden ser curadas si entendemos cómo funcionan los microbios. También está en estudio la importancia del sistema nervioso intestinal y su relación directa con las neuronas cerebrales, lo que permite dar una base científica a ciertas reacciones corporales ante decisiones...
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