The Brainiac's Book of the Body and Brain
London : Thames & Hudson, 2024, ©2024.
Format: Book
Description: 63 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.
What makes your body work? Is it all in your mind? Sort of! Take a tour of the human body from head to toes and everything in between.
Series: Brainiacs book of ...
Contents:
You own an amazing machine: your multi-tasking brain is in charge -- Your amazing brain. Your brain is a building site: building bridges deep in your brain ; My head has been hijacked!: what happens when fear takes over? ; Drift off to dreamland: dreams are your brain having a tidy up -- Remember, remember: the big filing system in your brain -- Talking sense. Making sense of the world: it takes top teamwork ; Super senses: the extra senses giving you signals ; Why do I feel dizzy?: water is sloshing in your ears ; Now you see it ...now you don't: mind the gap- in your eyesight! -- Excretion factory. Bathtubs of sweat: facts and figures about goo and poo ; Leaks and drips: grab the tissues and mop up the mess! ; Traveling poo: food's journey on its way to the loo ; Make friends with farts: the stinky gaes that brews inside you -- We are all different. All kinds of brains: our brains all work in different ways ; Gender biscuits: everyone has their own special gender recipe ; Access for everyone: making life equal and fair -- Marvellous medicine: gory investigations: the grisly story of dissection ; Ready for your close-up: clever ways to snoop inside the body ; Bug infestation: the mini mob that lives inside you ; Are you positive or negative: the A to B of topping up blood -- Evolving bodies. Leftover body parts: find clues to your past in your body ; Weird and wonky evolution: shrinking and evolving body parts ; We are all mutants: how our food habits have changed -- Weird science. Bad medicine: odd cures and peculiar practices -- Think yourself better: playing tricks on the brain ; Spooky sensations: when the brain and senses disagree ; Ghostly visions: eye cells and spooky images.
Subjects:
Human anatomy -- Juvenile literature.
Human physiology -- Juvenile literature.
Human body -- Juvenile literature.
Brain -- Juvenile literature.
Human anatomy -- Juvenile literature.
Human physiology -- Juvenile literature.
Human body -- Juvenile literature.
Brain -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780500652459
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C GENERAL INFO Coo | Main (Downtown) | Children's NonFiction | Coming Soon |
C GENERAL INFO Coo | Ballentine Indoors | Children's NonFiction | Coming Soon |
Includes glossary and index (page 63).