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A fascinating exploration of the weird and wonderful processes that occur within the human body, as well as answering such niggling questions as: how do we create memories? Why do we get butterflies in our stomachs? An accessible visual guide with beautiful images.
A fascinating exploration of the weird and wonderful processes that occur within the human body, as well as answering such niggling questions as: how do we create memories? Why do we get butterflies in our stomachs? An accessible visual guide with beautiful images.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: Under the microscope
- 1: Who's in charge?
- 2: Organ to cell
- 3: How cells work
- 4: What is DNA?
- 5: How cells multiply
- 6: How genes work
- 7: How genes make different cells
- 8: Stem cells
- 9: When DNA goes wrong
- 2: Holding it together
- 1: Skin Deep
- 2: Outer defences
- 3: The extremities
- 4: Pillars of support
- 5: Growing bones
- 6: Flexibility
- 7: Biting and chewing
- 8: The grinder
- 9: Skin damage
- 10: Breaking and mending
- 11: Wearing thin
- 3: On the move
- 1: Pulling power
- 2: How do muscles pull?
- 3: Working, stretching, pulling, braking
- 4: Sensory input, action output
- 5: The control centre
- 6: Communication hub
- 7: Sparking into life
- 8: Act or relax?
- 9: Knocks, sprains, and tears
- 4: Sensitive types
- 1: Feeling the pressure
- 2: How do you feel?
- 3: Pain's pathway
- 4: How the eye works
- 5: Forming an image
- 6: Vision in the brain
- 7: Eye problems
- 8: How the ear works
- 9: How the brain hears
- 10: Balancing act
- 11: Hearing problems
- 12: Catching a scent
- 13: On the tip of the tongue
- 14: Body position sense
- 15: Integrated senses
- 16: Using your voice
- 17: Reading faces
- 18: What you don't say
- 5: The heart of the matter
- 1: Filling your lungs
- 2: From air to blood
- 3: Why do we breathe?
- 4: Coughs and sneezes
- 5: The many tasks of our blood
- 6: How the heart beats
- 7: How blood travels
- 8: Broken blood vessels
- 9: Heart problems
- 10: Exercising and its limits
- 11: Fitter and stronger
- 12: Maximizing your fitness
- 6: In and out
- 1: Feeding the body
- 2: How does eating work?
- 3: A mouth to feed
- 4: Gut reaction
- 5: Up, down, and out
- 6: Bacterial breakdown
- 7: Cleaning the blood
- 8: Water balance
- 9: How the liver works
- 10: What the liver does
- 11: Energy balance
- 12: The sugar trap
- 13: Feast or fast?
- 14: Digestive problems
- 7: Fit and healthy
- 1: Body battleground
- 2: Friend or foe?
- 3: Germs are us
- 4: Damage limitation
- 5: Infectious diseases
- 6: Looking for trouble
- 7: Assassination squad
- 8: Cold and flu
- 9: Vaccine action
- 10: Immune problems
- 8: Chemical balance
- 1: Hormone factories
- 2: How hormones work
- 3: Inner balance
- 4: Hormonal changes
- 5: Daily rhythms
- 6: Diabetes
- 9: The circle of life
- 1: Sexual reproduction
- 2: Monthly cycle
- 3: Tiny beginnings
- 4: The generation game
- 5: Growing life
- 6: Mother's new body
- 7: The miracle of birth
- 8: Primed for life
- 9: Growing up
- 10: Hormonal teenagers
- 11: Getting older
- 12: The end of life
- 10: Mind matters
- 1: Learning skills
- 2: Making memories
- 3: Falling asleep
- 4: Entering your dreams
- 5: All emotional
- 6: Fight or flight?
- 7: Emotional problems
- 8: Feeling attraction
- 9: Extraordinary Minds
- 11: Index
- 12: Acknowledgements
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
---|---|
Produktart: | Ratgeber |
Rubrik: | Gesundheit |
Thema: | Gesundheit |
Medium: | Buch |
Seiten: | 256 |
Inhalt: | 256 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9780241188019 |
ISBN-10: | 0241188016 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Dk |
Illustrator: | Mark Clifton/Phil Gamble/Mike Garland et al |
Hersteller: | Dorling Kindersley Ltd |
Maße: | 241 x 200 x 27 mm |
Von/Mit: | Dk |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.05.2016 |
Gewicht: | 0,928 kg |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: Under the microscope
- 1: Who's in charge?
- 2: Organ to cell
- 3: How cells work
- 4: What is DNA?
- 5: How cells multiply
- 6: How genes work
- 7: How genes make different cells
- 8: Stem cells
- 9: When DNA goes wrong
- 2: Holding it together
- 1: Skin Deep
- 2: Outer defences
- 3: The extremities
- 4: Pillars of support
- 5: Growing bones
- 6: Flexibility
- 7: Biting and chewing
- 8: The grinder
- 9: Skin damage
- 10: Breaking and mending
- 11: Wearing thin
- 3: On the move
- 1: Pulling power
- 2: How do muscles pull?
- 3: Working, stretching, pulling, braking
- 4: Sensory input, action output
- 5: The control centre
- 6: Communication hub
- 7: Sparking into life
- 8: Act or relax?
- 9: Knocks, sprains, and tears
- 4: Sensitive types
- 1: Feeling the pressure
- 2: How do you feel?
- 3: Pain's pathway
- 4: How the eye works
- 5: Forming an image
- 6: Vision in the brain
- 7: Eye problems
- 8: How the ear works
- 9: How the brain hears
- 10: Balancing act
- 11: Hearing problems
- 12: Catching a scent
- 13: On the tip of the tongue
- 14: Body position sense
- 15: Integrated senses
- 16: Using your voice
- 17: Reading faces
- 18: What you don't say
- 5: The heart of the matter
- 1: Filling your lungs
- 2: From air to blood
- 3: Why do we breathe?
- 4: Coughs and sneezes
- 5: The many tasks of our blood
- 6: How the heart beats
- 7: How blood travels
- 8: Broken blood vessels
- 9: Heart problems
- 10: Exercising and its limits
- 11: Fitter and stronger
- 12: Maximizing your fitness
- 6: In and out
- 1: Feeding the body
- 2: How does eating work?
- 3: A mouth to feed
- 4: Gut reaction
- 5: Up, down, and out
- 6: Bacterial breakdown
- 7: Cleaning the blood
- 8: Water balance
- 9: How the liver works
- 10: What the liver does
- 11: Energy balance
- 12: The sugar trap
- 13: Feast or fast?
- 14: Digestive problems
- 7: Fit and healthy
- 1: Body battleground
- 2: Friend or foe?
- 3: Germs are us
- 4: Damage limitation
- 5: Infectious diseases
- 6: Looking for trouble
- 7: Assassination squad
- 8: Cold and flu
- 9: Vaccine action
- 10: Immune problems
- 8: Chemical balance
- 1: Hormone factories
- 2: How hormones work
- 3: Inner balance
- 4: Hormonal changes
- 5: Daily rhythms
- 6: Diabetes
- 9: The circle of life
- 1: Sexual reproduction
- 2: Monthly cycle
- 3: Tiny beginnings
- 4: The generation game
- 5: Growing life
- 6: Mother's new body
- 7: The miracle of birth
- 8: Primed for life
- 9: Growing up
- 10: Hormonal teenagers
- 11: Getting older
- 12: The end of life
- 10: Mind matters
- 1: Learning skills
- 2: Making memories
- 3: Falling asleep
- 4: Entering your dreams
- 5: All emotional
- 6: Fight or flight?
- 7: Emotional problems
- 8: Feeling attraction
- 9: Extraordinary Minds
- 11: Index
- 12: Acknowledgements
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
---|---|
Produktart: | Ratgeber |
Rubrik: | Gesundheit |
Thema: | Gesundheit |
Medium: | Buch |
Seiten: | 256 |
Inhalt: | 256 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9780241188019 |
ISBN-10: | 0241188016 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Dk |
Illustrator: | Mark Clifton/Phil Gamble/Mike Garland et al |
Hersteller: | Dorling Kindersley Ltd |
Maße: | 241 x 200 x 27 mm |
Von/Mit: | Dk |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.05.2016 |
Gewicht: | 0,928 kg |
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