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Stephen Biesty's incredible body cross-sections / illustrated by Stephen Biesty ; written by Richard Platt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2020Edition: Revised edition; 25 years anniversary editionDescription: 32 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781465491459
  • 1465491457
Other title:
  • Incredible body cross-sections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
A journey of discovery -- The eye -- The ear -- The brain -- The spinal cord and nerves -- The skeleton -- Skin and muscles -- The mouth and gut -- Lymph and blood -- The kidneys, bladder, and reproductive system -- The heart -- The nose and lungs -- Index and acknowledgments.
Summary: Uses the perspective of tiny people traveling through a man's body to present its various systems and organs and how they work.Summary: A book that actually takes you inside - and around - the human body to see how it works, with the help of some truly unique illustrations and some very small people! Explore your brain, your bones, and everything in between in incredible cross-section drawings of all the body systems. Inside each one are teams of tiny characters busy at work, and explaining what's going on. Every page is packed with jaw-dropping facts. Did you know that the skin is your largest organ - in an adult it's 2 sq m (22 sq ft). Or that the skeleton consists of 206 bones, the smallest - and most delicate - in your ear? Have you ever thought about how heavy the brain is? Well, it's about 1.4 kg (3 lb) and is crammed with 100 billion nerve cells that help you think and move. And by the time you turn 75, your heart will have pumped blood around your body 4,000 million times! With the challenge of finding two tiny explorers making their way through the body, Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Human Body , learning about anatomy has never been so much fun!
Holdings
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Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 611 P719 Available 33111009747359
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 611 P719 Available 33111010391411
Children's Book Children's Book Northport Library Children's NonFiction 611 P719 Available 33111009015492
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

How does the body protect itself from infections? What makes your tummy rumble? Are you taller at the beginning or end of the day?

This extraordinary book actually takes you inside - and around - the human body to see how it works, with the help of some truly unique illustrations and some very small people!

Explore your brain, your bones, and everything in between in incredible cross-section drawings of all the body systems. Inside each one are teams of tiny characters busy at work, and explaining what's going on.

Every page is packed with jaw-dropping facts. Did you know that the skin is your largest organ - in an adult, it's 2 sq m (22 sq ft). Have you ever thought about how heavy the brain is? Well, it's about 1.4 kg (3 lb) and is crammed with 100 billion nerve cells that help you think and move. And by the time you turn 75, your heart will have pumped blood around your body 4,000 million times!

With the challenge of finding two tiny explorers making their way through the body, learning about anatomy has never been so much fun!

Includes index.

A journey of discovery -- The eye -- The ear -- The brain -- The spinal cord and nerves -- The skeleton -- Skin and muscles -- The mouth and gut -- Lymph and blood -- The kidneys, bladder, and reproductive system -- The heart -- The nose and lungs -- Index and acknowledgments.

Uses the perspective of tiny people traveling through a man's body to present its various systems and organs and how they work.

A book that actually takes you inside - and around - the human body to see how it works, with the help of some truly unique illustrations and some very small people! Explore your brain, your bones, and everything in between in incredible cross-section drawings of all the body systems. Inside each one are teams of tiny characters busy at work, and explaining what's going on. Every page is packed with jaw-dropping facts. Did you know that the skin is your largest organ - in an adult it's 2 sq m (22 sq ft). Or that the skeleton consists of 206 bones, the smallest - and most delicate - in your ear? Have you ever thought about how heavy the brain is? Well, it's about 1.4 kg (3 lb) and is crammed with 100 billion nerve cells that help you think and move. And by the time you turn 75, your heart will have pumped blood around your body 4,000 million times! With the challenge of finding two tiny explorers making their way through the body, Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Human Body , learning about anatomy has never been so much fun!

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