How the Body Works

The Facts Simply Explained

Dk (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2016
DK (Verlag)
978-0-241-18801-9 (ISBN)

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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.

How The Body Works is a fascinating exploration of the weird and wonderful processes that occur within the human body, often without us knowing. 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!

How The Body Works is a bold and accessible visual guide to every aspect of how the human body and brain works, combining the science of human anatomy books with beautiful images. Enjoy this enlightening resource that covers everything from skin to bone and even the psychology of dreams and emotions.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	02.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	DK How Stuff Works
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	202 x 240 mm
Gewicht	927 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Themenwelt	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Anatomie / Neuroanatomie
ISBN-10	0-241-18801-6 / 0241188016
ISBN-13	978-0-241-18801-9 / 9780241188019
Zustand	Neuware