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The Body Atlas: A Pictorial Guide To The Human Body
Explores the diverse systems of the human body and their functions, the major organs, and how the different parts of the body work together
64 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1993
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Steve Parker
1,344 books85 followersSteve Parker is a British science writer of children's and adult's books. He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150.
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.
Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.
Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.
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January 26, 2023
Enamel, the hardest substance in the body.
But many sensations, such as feeling the wind on your face, do not involve actual contact. Rather, the wind moves and bends your facial hairs, and tiny, sensitive nerves wrapped around the base of each hair detect these movements.
Your eyes are actually an extension of your brain. The optic nerve and the retina grow out of the brain before birth, rather than forming separately.
Every time you blink, tears wash your eyes. When your eyes “water,” or if you cry, extra tear fluid floods out of the tear, or lacrimal, glands. This fluid drains into two tiny holes on the nose side of the eyelids, into a larger tube, the tear (lacrimal) sac, then into your nose. This is why you have to blow your nose after a good cry.
The reflex action that causes hiccups happens in two stages. First, the diaphragm contracts sharply when its nerves become irritated. Then, as soon as you breathe in, a flap of skin over your esophagus snaps shut, making a clicking sound.
But many sensations, such as feeling the wind on your face, do not involve actual contact. Rather, the wind moves and bends your facial hairs, and tiny, sensitive nerves wrapped around the base of each hair detect these movements.
Your eyes are actually an extension of your brain. The optic nerve and the retina grow out of the brain before birth, rather than forming separately.
Every time you blink, tears wash your eyes. When your eyes “water,” or if you cry, extra tear fluid floods out of the tear, or lacrimal, glands. This fluid drains into two tiny holes on the nose side of the eyelids, into a larger tube, the tear (lacrimal) sac, then into your nose. This is why you have to blow your nose after a good cry.
The reflex action that causes hiccups happens in two stages. First, the diaphragm contracts sharply when its nerves become irritated. Then, as soon as you breathe in, a flap of skin over your esophagus snaps shut, making a clicking sound.
March 14, 2023
I liked it. It was a great introduction to the body as a whole and all the different parts. It reminded me of just how cool the human body is. How much it does and we don't even know about it. Like...me typing this right now. The muscles and tendons in my hand are pulling to place my fingers in different directions so that I can type. It's amazing, honestly. Just how much we are capable of doing without even thinking of it.
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September 22, 2021good
August 23, 2023
Really cool!
December 12, 2019
very informational
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March 28, 2015Good to use in a science classroom when talking about the body and the different systems in the body and their functions. Included a lot of academic vocabulary which will help the students understand the function and role of different parts/organs/etc. This book would also be a great tool to use with your ESL students due to the high amount of academic vocabulary and the pictures to assist with understanding.
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