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"The Human Body Factory is an exciting and informative guide to your insides. Each "department" is introduced by the busy and wacky workers who keep everything running smoothly, from the big boss sending out orders in the brain to waste being sorted and pushed out of the body. The ingenious artworks are packed with humorous details, all backed up with Dan Green's fascinating facts and accessible text describing and explaining the body's processes....
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This collection of poems begins rooted in the landscape of the U.S. South as it voices singular lives carved out of immediate and historical trauma. While these poems dwell in the body, often meditating on its frailty and desire, they also question the weight that literary, historical, and religious icons are expected to bear. Within the vast scope of this volume, the poems arc from a pig farmer's funeral to Georges de la Tour's paintings and Toni...
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New York Times Bestseller
New York Times Notable Book of 2016 • NPR Great Read of 2016 • Named a Best Book of 2016 by The Economist, Smithsonian, NPR's Science Friday, MPR, Minnesota Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Times (London)
From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly
...9) Cannibal
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"Colliding with and confrontingThe Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricately woven....
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Allergies, asthma, obesity, stomachaches, acne: these are just a few of the conditions that may be caused-and cured-by the microscopic life inside us. Understand how to use groundbreaking science to improve your health, mood, and more. In just the last few years, scientists have shown how the microscopic ecosystem within our bodies-particularly within ourintestines-has an astonishing impact on our lives. Pioneering scientist Rob Knight and award-winning...
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What on Earth Books, an imprint of What on Earth Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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"Did you know that your body is full of bacteria? And that most of it is good bacteria that helps to keep you healthy? Well, now's your chance to get up close and personal with the microorganisms that live inside all of us. Travel through the body with our gut bacteria guide, stopping off to meet the other amazing microbe residents along the way."--Amazon.com.
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Little Simon
Pub. Date
2025.
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English
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Little head Little nose Little kiss Cuddle close Every parent knows the awe of looking at their child.the button nose, chubby belly, and tiny hands. With this simple but engaging board book, both parent and child can delight in all the things a little body can do-from giggling to holding hands to snuggling close-with a beloved stuffed animal along for the ride.
15) Body actions
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Young readers learn about the human body and how the skeletal, muscular, respiratory, and circulatory systems function.
16) Human body
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Sterling Children's Books
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2019.
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English
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Presents a collection of wacky facts about the human body, including the real reason ice cream causes brain freeze, the true speed of a sneeze, and how much snot the body produces in a day.
17) Human body
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"Explore your incredible body, inside and out. From skeleton to skin, muscles to microscopic cells, discover how your body systems work together to keep you alive and well."-- Page 4 of cover
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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"-- Provided by publisher.
"Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability...
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