Anatomy And Physiology category: 232 books

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Do you see clearly? Or do faraway objects look blurry to you? Maybe objects in the distance look clear, but you have trouble reading close-up print. What determines how your vision works? Read this book to find out about how your genes affect your physical features.

A green frog. An orange Popsicle. A flashing “walk” sign. Your eyes let you see everything around you. But how do your eyes work? And how does your sense of sight help you? Read this book to find out! Learn all about your five senses in the Your Amazing Senses series - part of the Lightning Bolt...

Today is a very exciting day for Emma’s kindergarten class. Emma, Robert, and the rest of the students don’t understand how they can all look so different on the outside, but look very similar on the inside. So Dr. Shaw is coming to visit, and she’s bringing Mr. Bones, who is a real life-size...

Do your eyes send out light like headlights? Does your liver create blood? Do bumps on your head tell what's inside your brain? At one time, science supported wild notions like these! But later studies proved these ideas were nonsense. Discover science's biggest mistakes and oddest assumptions about the human body, and see how scientific thought changed over time.

Can you name some of the muscles you use every day? Learn about how muscles give your body shape, keep your heart beating, and help you move. This title supports NGSS From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes.

A Bank Street Best Book of 2019 It’s itchy, it’s sweaty, it’s embarrassing...but most of all, it’s fascinating! Dr. Joanne Settel has all the answers to our most burning questions in this wacky and informative book of poems about our skin. Have you ever wondered… Why you blush...

What if you woke up one morning and you had sprouted a tail overnight? What If You Had An Animal Tail? -- the next imaginative book in the What If You Had series -- explores what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw that you had an animal tail! From a peacock's showstopping tail to a scorpion's...

What if you woke up one morning and your eyes weren't yours? What If You Had Animal Eyes? -- the next imaginative book in the What If You Had series -- explores what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw a pair of animal eyes instead of your own! From the chameleon's eyes that can point...

Discover the journey that your food takes through the digestive system in this fascinating, Spanish-translated nonfiction title! Featuring vivid diagrams and photos, fresh and informative text, and stimulating facts, readers will be engaged from cover to cover.

There are over 600 muscles in the human body that we can strengthen, stretch, flex, or simply leave alone. Whether we use them consciously or not, muscles work to protect our bones and keep our blood flowing. In this volume, readers will learn about the different kinds of muscle and why muscles are...

They say truth is stranger than fiction, but can you tell the difference? This book contains over 200 fascinating facts about the human body, but you need to decide whether they are true or false. All the answers are provided so you can quiz yourself and your family and friends. Hours of weird and wacky trivia fun! Includes hilarious colour illustrations.

Some feet can smell. We don't mean they stink. Some animals actually have feet that smell things like your nose does. Some animals even taste with their feet! Some animals eat with their feet, or use them to swim. Others use their feet to hunt or to dig holes. Even if they don't smell, feet are wonderful...

You have some on you right now. It covers your entire body! It’s skin. You’ve lived with this stuff all your life, but how much do you really know about the skin that covers your body? Here are some fun facts that you may not know! Why does your skin get wrinkled when it stays in the water too...

The circulatory system is made up of the heart, the blood, and strong tubes called blood vessels. But what does the circulatory system do? And how do its parts work together to keep your body healthy? Explore the circulatory system in this engaging and informative book.