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Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot....
2) Patina
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Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"Patina, "Patty" Jones is the fastest girl on the Defenders track team. A newbie to the track team, Patty must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her problems. She runs to show the kids that taunt her at her fancy new school that she's going to be someone some day. She runs for her fellow newbie teammates to make them proud. She runs to show her little sister Maddy how to be strong and brave. And she runs for her mother,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man--but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselves haunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.
4) Your body
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�2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This book introduces the human body, explaining what your heart and lungs do, how you see and hear, where food goes, and how skin gives you a waterproof covering.
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2016.
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"From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expose that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these,...
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"Understanding how your body works can be an important part of keeping it healthy. The lungs, for example, are a body part that many people take for granted but are essential for quality of life. For the most part, the lungs work automatically with little conscious effort from an individual. However, there are things that can be done to help keep them extra healthy"--from publisher website.
The How to Build a Human Body series (6 titles) is perfect...
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"Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls "musical misalignments." Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and...
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""A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains." --Kathy Reichs A brilliant blend of science and crime, A taste for poison reveals how eleven notorious poisons affect the body--through the murders in which they were used. As any reader of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring-and popular-weapons of choice for a scheming murderer. It can be slipped into a drink, smeared onto the tip...
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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...
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Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Whether we love them or hate them, think they're sexy or silly or strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between--humans have a complicated relationship with their butts. It is a body part unique to humans, and crucial to our evolution and survival--and yet, over time, it has come to represent so much more beyond its physiological function. A woman's butt, in particular, is forever being assessed, criticized, and objectified, the...
12) Hallucinations
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An investigation into the types, physiological sources, and cultural resonances of hallucinations traces everything from the disorientations of sleep and intoxication to the manifestations of injury and illness.
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Fifteen minutes a day; the reading guide. New York, Collier [1956, c1938] 95 p.: illus.; 23 cm.
v. 30--Scientific papers: physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology.
v. 31--The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini.
v. 32--Literary and phylosophical essays, French, German, Italy.
v. 33--Voyages and travels, ancient and modern
v. 34--French and English philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes.
v. 35--Chronicle and romance: Froissart,...
14) Snakes
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Childrens Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes the physiology, habits, and behavior of snakes.
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Atheneum
Pub. Date
1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Facts about human physiology in question-and-answer format, dealing with such phenomena as blinking, crying, burping, shivering, and sweating, as well as goose bumps, dizziness, pimples, allergies, and flat feet.
20) Dogs
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1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of dogs, pointing out ways in which they differ from people.
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