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How the Body Works
The Facts Simply Explained
Buch von Dk
Sprache: Englisch

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Helps you to understand how our bodies keep us alive and thriving and get to the bottom of such niggling questions as why we get dizzy, why we get butterflies in our stomachs, and why we get jetlag! This title shows how the human body and brain works.
Helps you to understand how our bodies keep us alive and thriving and get to the bottom of such niggling questions as why we get dizzy, why we get butterflies in our stomachs, and why we get jetlag! This title shows how the human body and brain works.
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
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Ratgeber
Rubrik: Gesundheit
Thema: Gesundheit
Medium: Buch
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
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 241 x 200 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Dk
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.05.2016
Gewicht: 0,928 kg
Artikel-ID: 104025006
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
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Ratgeber
Rubrik: Gesundheit
Thema: Gesundheit
Medium: Buch
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
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 241 x 200 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Dk
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.05.2016
Gewicht: 0,928 kg
Artikel-ID: 104025006
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