Human Body
Author(s): Miranda Smith
Navigate your way through a fantastic range of subjects with this visually spectacular new series. Every spread is brimming with lively text, amazing photographs and artworks, and weblinks and quotes. Panels throughout offer focused information on specific topics.Travel through the human body and explore the systems that work together to keep us alive and well. Find out more about the body's basic building blocks - cells and tissue - and the outer layers that protect us from attack. Take a tour of the brain, the body's essential nerve centre, and move from system to system to discover exactly how we human beings function.
General Information
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- : Kingfisher Books Ltd
- : Kingfisher Books Ltd
- : 31 May 2008
- : 280 x 250mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Miranda Smith
- : Hardback
- : Medi-mation
- : Medi-mation
- : 612
- : 48pp
- : full-colour photos & artwork
- : full-colour photos & artwork
More About The Product
Miranda Smith is a long-standing editor of information books for both children and adults. She has a particular interest in the field of natural history and has written books and articles for children on the subject, including the encyclopedic Living Earth (for Dorling Kindersley).
1 Title; 2 Contents; 4 Systems in unison; 6 Essential cells; 8 Genes and cells; 10 Skeleton; 12 Pure muscle; 14 Joints and ligaments; 16 Skin coating; 18 Blood vessels; 20 Immunity; 22 The cardiac cycle; 24 Lungs and breathing; 26 Nerves and reflexes; 28 The grey matter; 30 Touch, taste and smell; 32 Sight and sound; 34 Glands and hormones; 36 Food and digestion; 38 Processing and cleaning; 40 Waste management; 42 Foetus to full-grown; 44 Glossary and References; 46 Index; 48 Acknowledgements.