Henry Carter Hull

Looks at the ways in which different animals use their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails.

Explores some little understood aspects of the human body such as sleep, human endurance, dwarfs, senses, healing, and aging.

Describes ten different stress management techniques, including meditation, yoga, aromatherapy, and creative visualization, and provides specific instructions on how to use them. Includes a resource guide to books, recordings, and products related to each practice.

Illustrations, photos, text, and simple activities introduce how the heart works to children.

"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...

You live with it 24 hours a day, but how well do you really know it? This course is an owner's manual to a remarkably complex, resilient, and fascinating structure: the human body. Using detailed color illustrations, life-sized models, and, even a video shot during surgery, this course examines the major systems of the body, explaining exactly how things work and why they sometimes don't. Each lecture concentrates on a particular organ or organ...

Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and personality, it explores how the billions of particles which make up you - your DNA, your skin, your memories - have come to be. It starts with the present-day reader and follows a number of trails to discover their origins: how the atoms in your body were created and how they...