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This live-action program teaches students that, for food to be of use to our body's cells, it needs to be broken down and absorbed into the blood stream. This is the job of the digestive system, a complex series of tools that includes teeth, saliva, bile, acids and enzymes designed to reduce nutrients to a form that can be delivered to cells. Students will come to understand that waste products and indigestible materials must be removed from the body....
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Take a tour of both the central and peripheral nervous systems, and find out how information travels from one part of the body to another. Watch how nerve impulses travel from neuron to neuron with the help of an animated diagram. Learn about the parts of the brain and understand their functions. See models of the eye, ear, tongue, and nose, and learn how sensations are communicated from these parts of the body to the brain.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with impossible quotas... wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas has been an outspoken critic of the seemingly unstoppable Goliath of the bookselling world: Amazon. In...
Pub. Date
[2011], c2011
Language
English
Description
It's one of the greatest breakthroughs in scientific history, but genetic engineering has also brought disturbing new questions. Should we push genetic research to its absolute limit, exploiting every discovery? What are the consequences of intervening in nature's processes at their most fundamental level? Outlining the potential benefits of genetic engineering, such as the treatment or cure of hereditary diseases and the creation of better, more...
11) Coding
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This book introduces young readers to math concepts about coding"--
17) Tornadoes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Looks at the world's tornadoes from a mathematical point of view, discussing how they are formed, when they occur, and how they are measured.
20) Tsunamis
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Shows how math skills can be used to learn more about tsunamis, including the triggers, the difference from regular waves, and where they occur most often.
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