What does the heart do? What are bones made of? Why do we yawn? Explore the intriguing answers to more than 200 questions about the human body. Covering amazing organs, stupendous senses, and the perplexing ways our bodies work, this book helps children get to grips with the gig…
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What does the heart do? What are bones made of? Why do we yawn? Explore the intriguing answers to more than 200 questions about the human body in DK's newest biology encyclopedia for kids. This children's book, ideal for ages 6-9, will help inquisitive minds find out the answers…
What does the heart do? What are bones made of? Why do we yawn? Explore the intriguing answers to more than 200 questions about the human body in DK's newest biology encyclopedia for kids. This children's book, ideal for ages 6-9, will help inquisitive minds find out the answers…
"Discover the answers to more than 200 of the most jaw-dropping questions about the human body. Ever wonder what's happening inside your body right now? Young readers will love learning the answers to all their sensational and squeamish questions about what makes us human in thi…
"Discover the answers to more than 200 of the most jaw-dropping questions about the human body. Ever wonder what's happening inside your body right now? Young readers will love learning the answers to all their sensational and squeamish questions about what makes us human in thi…
"We assume we know our bodies intimately, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. How many of us understand the way seizures affect the brain, how the heart is connected to wellbeing, or the why the foot carries the key to our humanity? In Adventures in Human Being, …
This engaging volume sheds light on the central role the turn to the body plays in the philosophies of Spinoza and Nietzsche, providing an ideal starting point for understanding their work. Ioan explores their critiques of traditional morality, as well as their accounts of ethic…
"Hominids have always been obsessed with representing their own bodies. The first "selfies" were prehistoric negative hand images and human stick figures, followed by stone and ceramic representations of the human figure. Thousands of years later, moving via historic art and lit…
"Hominids have always been obsessed with representing their own bodies. The first "selfies" were prehistoric negative hand images and human stick figures, followed by stone and ceramic representations of the human figure. Thousands of years later, moving via historic art and lit…
"Hominids have always been obsessed with representing their own bodies. The first "selfies" were prehistoric negative hand images and human stick figures, followed by stone and ceramic representations of the human figure. Thousands of years later, moving via historic art and lit…
"The thirteen original essays in The Prosthetic Impulse reassert the phenomenological, material and embodied nature of prosthesis without dismissing its metaphorical potential. They examine the historical and conceptual edge between the human and the posthuman - between flesh an…
Analyses how our culture elaborates our naturally evolved bodies by calling upon the new means contemporary thinkers have used to understand the body. He explains how we make our bodies foreign to ourselves and envisages what they may become."--Publisher.
Analyses how our culture elaborates our naturally evolved bodies by calling upon the new means contemporary thinkers have used to understand the body. He explains how we make our bodies foreign to ourselves and envisages what they may become."--Publisher
Analyses how our culture elaborates our naturally evolved bodies by calling upon the new means contemporary thinkers have used to understand the body. He explains how we make our bodies foreign to ourselves and envisages what they may become."--Publisher.
"Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuroscience, epigenetics and other scientific disciplines. Mattering, edited by noted feminist scholar Victoria Pitts-Taylor, presen…
Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuroscience, epigenetics and other scientific disciplines. 'Mattering', edited by noted feminist scholar Victoria Pitts-Taylor, prese…
"Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuroscience, epigenetics and other scientific disciplines. Mattering, edited by noted feminist scholar Victoria Pitts-Taylor, presen…
"Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically addressing new developments in biology, physics, neuroscience, epigenetics and other scientific disciplines. Mattering, edited by noted feminist scholar Victoria Pitts-Taylor, presen…