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Book The Fantastic Body

Download or read book The Fantastic Body written by Howard Bennett and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fantastic Body is the ultimate kids' reference guide to the human body! Jam-packed with fun facts, cool diagrams, and gross stories, and written by a successful, practicing pediatrician, this go-to guide will captivate curious readers for hours on end. Kids will take their learning beyond reading the book with DIY projects that demonstrate different bodily functions and tips for making their regular checkups less scary. Through humor, science, and engaging illustrations, this fun and comprehensive reference book is perfect for kids who want to know more about the mysterious stuff going on inside their bodies.

Book The Body Fantastic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2021-08-10
  • ISBN : 0262365685
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book The Body Fantastic written by Frank Gonzalez-Crussi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body in dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the fantastic as expressions of human corporeality. In The Body Fantastic, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi looks at the human body through the lens of dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the bizarre, exploring the close connection of the fictitious and the fabulous to our conception of the body. He chronicles, among other curious cases, the man who ate everything (including boiled hedgehogs and mice on toast), the therapeutic powers of saliva, hair that burst into flames, and an "amphibian man" who lived under water. Drawing on clinical records, popular lore, and art, history, and literature, Gonzalez-Crussi considers the body in both real and imaginary dimensions. Myths and stories, Gonzalez-Crussi reminds us, are the symbolic expression of our aspirations and emotions. These fantastic tales of bodies come from the deepest regions of the human psyche. Ancient Greeks, for example, believed that the uterus wandered around inside a woman's body--an "animal within an animal." If a woman sniffed an unpleasant odor, the uterus would retreat. Organized "digestive excess" began with the eating and drinking contests of antiquity and continue through the hot-dog eating competitions of today. And the "libido-podalic association," connecting male sexuality and the foot, insinuated itself into mainstream medicine in the sixteenth century; meanwhile, the feet of women in some cultures were scrupulously kept from view. Gonzalez-Crussi shows that the many imaginary representations of the body are very much a part of our corporeality.

Book The Body Book

Download or read book The Body Book written by Nosy Crow and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s going on inside our bodies? How do we move, eat, think, and breathe? Children will love looking inside the human body to discover the answers with this incredible interactive book. With labeled acetate diagrams of the muscular, skeletal, respiratory, circulatory, digestive, excretory, and nervous systems, this is a fantastic first look at human anatomy. From pumping blood to breathing air, The Body Book is an exciting way to explore all the amazing things our body can do.

Book Body Kindness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rebecca Scritchfield
  • Publisher : Workman Publishing
  • Release : 2016-12-27
  • ISBN : 0761187294
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Body Kindness written by Rebecca Scritchfield and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a graph with two lines. One indicates happiness, the other tracks how you feel about your body. If you’re like millions of people, the lines do not intersect. But what if they did? This practical, inspirational, and visually lively book shows you how to create a healthier and happier life by treating yourself with compassion rather than shame. It shows the way to a sense of well-being attained by understanding how to love, connect, and care for yourself—and that includes your mind as well as your body. Body Kindness is based on four principles. WHAT YOU DO: the choices you make about food, exercise, sleep, and more HOW YOU FEEL: befriending your emotions and standing up to the unhelpful voice in your head WHO YOU ARE: goal-setting based on your personal values WHERE YOU BELONG: body-loving support from people and communities that help you create a meaningful life With mind and body exercises to keep your energy spiraling up and prompts to help you identify what YOU really want and care about, Body Kindness helps you let go of things you can't control and embrace the things you can by finding the workable, daily steps that fit you best. Think of it as the anti-diet book that leads to a more joyful and meaningful life!

Book Inside the Body

Download or read book Inside the Body written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 250 images from inside the human body, produced using the very latest photographic technology, with captions explaining how the images have been taken and what they represent.

Book My First Book of the Human Body with Lots of Fantastic Stickers

Download or read book My First Book of the Human Body with Lots of Fantastic Stickers written by Chiara Piroddi and published by White Star Kids. This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book accompanies children aged five and up on the discovery of their own bodies with an overview of each body area and the most important internal organs, starting at the top with the head and continuing down to the feet. The cards are inspired by the Montessori Method and help the children to develop an awareness of their own bodies by helping them to learn the name, the position, the size and the function of each organ. Each child interacts with the book but also carries out exercises directly with his or her own body in order to learn to observe it and listen to it. AGES: 5 plus AUTHOR: Chiara Piroddi is a psychologist and expert in Neuropsychology, specialising in Cognitive-Evolutionary Psychotherapy. She graduated in Psychology at the University of Pavia in 2007 and continued as a teaching assistant for the Chair of Physiological Psychology, and as a lecturer in Practical Neuropsychology Training at the same academic institution. She completed her practical training at the Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital in Milan, where she has worked since 2008, acquiring clinical experience in children with serious mental and physical disabilities of all ages. Agnese Baruzzi graduated in Graphic Design at ISIA (Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche) in Urbino. She has worked as an illustrator and author since 2001, writing more than 40 children's books that have been published in Italy, the UK, Japan, Portugal, the US, France and South Korea. Includes 8 pages of stickers

Book The Human Body

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Walker
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-11-29
  • ISBN : 9781787410589
  • Pages : 16 pages

Download or read book The Human Body written by Richard Walker and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1839 and you are a medical student w orking on your first human body dissection! Under the w atchful eye of Dr W alker, peel the flaps back to reveal the inner w orkings of the human body, from bone and muscle, to the brain, eyes, heart, lungs and everything in-betw een. Victorian-inspired illustrations meet w ith medical notes and sketches to give a complete in-depth exploration of how the human body w orks.

Book Big Book of the Body

Download or read book Big Book of the Body written by Minna Lacey and published by . This book was released on 2025-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open up the huge fold-out pages of this vivid, illustrated book to discover the remarkable ways the human body works. Explore a giant skeleton, see how your heart pumps blood, find out what's inside your head and learn what happens to the food you eat. A fun and engaging introduction to a key elementary school topic. Its bold, bright design will inspire and delight young children.

Book The Great Body Bible

Download or read book The Great Body Bible written by The Fitness Wizards and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally we had realised that our fitness and nutrition habits worked in the rest of our lives also and are now able to show good habits to our circle of influence across the whole of our lives. It is never too late to make that lasting impression, not with loud words but with worthy actions. . Appearing perfect is not the example to set, being human and accepting responsibility for your life is far worthier. You can be whatever you want to be, though at times you may find that hard to believe. Life is too short to live through it being any less than the best that you can be. Imagine yourself in one year: how would you like to look and feel? Are you fit, strong, confident, proud, and healthy? Are you the perfect role model for all of the people who know you? Are you working towards these goals right now, or are they just wishes and hopes for the future? If your dreams seem far away or unrealistic, you can bring them into your reality right now, in this very moment, by making a commitment to change the way you think and thus change your life. We wrote this book for you, to provide the simple guidelines that you need to coach and attain your dream body, health, and fitness, and to become an ideal role model for everyone that knows you. Our job is to show you how you can have the body, fitness, health, and peace of mind you crave. You can become the star in your own life performance. We will tell you exactly what has worked for us. We will share our potent habits, and you can choose which you can use in your life. Your job is to make a commitment to yourself to undergo the coaching process, become your own coach, and be ready to accept with an open mind any new ideas and the new you. Your life is an amazing journey, so get enthusiastic about your future and generate some real excitement you have everything to gain. Become your own biggest fan, because self-belief is potent magic Bodymagic!

Book Superheroes and Excess

Download or read book Superheroes and Excess written by Jamie Brassett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding the superhero genre in need of further investigation from philosophical standpoints that value excess as a creative drive, rather than denigrate it as a problem to be resolved, this book opens up discussions that highlight different approaches to ‘the creative excess of being’ as expressed through the genre. While superheroes are an everyday, culturally dominant phenomena, philosophical methods and investigations have a reputation for lofty superiority. Across 13 chapters, this book facilitates a collision between the superhero genre and the discipline of philosophy, resulting in a voyage of exploration where each illuminates the other. The contributions in this book range from new voices to recognized scholars, offering superhero studies a set of critical interventions that are unusual, conceptually diverse, theoretically grounded and varied in practice. These chapters consider ‘excessive’ traits of superheroes against schools of thought that have attempted to conceptualize and understand excess by analysing texts and figures across a variety of mediums, such as The Fantastic Four, Captain America, The Vision, Logan, Black Panther and Super Hero Girls. With its unique approach to the superhero genre, this book will be an invaluable read for students and scholars working on comic studies, transmedia studies, cultural studies, popular culture and superhero studies.

Book Constructing Gendered Bodies

Download or read book Constructing Gendered Bodies written by K. Backett-Milburn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-03-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in sociological study of the body, theoretically and empirically, has increased dramatically in the 1990s. This book builds on this work by bringing together exciting and stimulating research which examines the social and cultural processes involved in the construction of gendered bodies and sexual practices. Contributors explore these issues in a variety of settings ranging from the workplace and leisure industry to social arenas of moral and medical regulation.

Book The Female Fantastic

Download or read book The Female Fantastic written by Lizzie McCormick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For women-identified writers of both eras, the fantastic offered double vision. Not only did the genre offer strategic cover for challenging the status quo, but also a heuristic mechanism for teasing out the gendered psyche’s links to creative, personal, and erotic agency. These dynamic presentations of female and gender-queer subjectivity, are linked in intriguing and complex matrices to key moments in gender(ed) history. This volume contains essays from international scholars covering a wide range of topics, including werewolves, mummies, fairies, demons, time travel, ghosts, haunted spaces and objects, race, gender, queerness, monstrosity, madness, incest, empire, medicine, and science. By interrogating two non-consecutive decades, we seek to uncover the inter-relationships among fantastic literature, feminism, and modern identity and culture. Indeed, while this book considers the relationship between the 1890s and 1920s, it is more an examination of women’s modernism in light of gendered literary production during the fin-de-siècle than the reverse.

Book Marvel Anatomy  A Scientific Study of the Superhuman

Download or read book Marvel Anatomy A Scientific Study of the Superhuman written by Marc Sumerak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Skrull forces use their shape-shifting powers to infiltrate Earth's defenses, King T'Challa must delve into Wakanda's scientific archives to determine which Super Heroes and Super Villains might be most at risk. With assistance from his brilliant sister, Shuri, the Black Panther explores the unique anatomical makeup of a vast range of super-powered individuals, unlocking the secrets behind their abilities" --

Book Tomahawk  The Great Warrior Called  Selten the Chieftain

Download or read book Tomahawk The Great Warrior Called Selten the Chieftain written by Soheil Nashtahosseini and published by Raodmehr. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Sultan, the beloved ruler of Germania, was a man of unparalleled honor, strength, and influence. Driven by a deep-seated desire to avenge the disgrace inflicted upon his people by the Romans and Western powers, he rallied Germania against these formidable foes. His bravery and courage were so immense that even his enemies came to respect and join his mighty army. Yet, amidst the glory and triumph, jealousy and insecurity crept into the ranks of his trusted men, transforming them into cruel traitors. The tragic fate of his favorite son, Crown Prince Eldwin, marked a pivotal turning point in Sultan's destiny. Before he could comprehend the treachery surrounding him, his once glorious Empire lay in ruins, engulfed in misery and despair. However, amidst the darkness that shrouded his soul, a glimmer of old love reignited a spark of hope within the Sultan. Faced with the haunting memories of his ruthless pursuit of vengeance, he grappled with a haunting question: Could he find redemption and reclaim his lost glory? Or was it too late to mend the shattered pieces of his once proud Empire? In this epic tale of honor, betrayal, and redemption, journey with King Sultan as he navigates the complex tapestry of love and war, and seeks to forge a path towards salvation. For in the heart of adversity lies the opportunity for rebirth and renewal, and the Sultan must confront his past to shape his future.

Book Fantasy  Politics  Postmodernity

Download or read book Fantasy Politics Postmodernity written by Andrew Rayment and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The books are true while reality is lying...” Championing the popular Fantasy genre on the same terms as its readers, Rayment casts a critical eye over the substance and methods of political critique in the Fantasy novels of Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Miéville. Ranging across subjects as diverse as exquisite fundamentalism and revolutionary trains, encountering pervert-priests, dwarf hermaphrodites and sex-scarred lovers and pondering the homicidal tendencies of fairy tales and opera, Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity develops a theoretically wide-ranging and illuminating account of how the novels of these writers do and do not sustain politically insightful critique of the real world, while bringing intellectual and ethical concerns to bear on the popular Fantasy form.

Book Lamentation and Modernity in Literature  Philosophy  and Culture

Download or read book Lamentation and Modernity in Literature Philosophy and Culture written by R. Saunders and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saunders analyzes the ideological uses of loss in literary, philosophical, and social texts from the late 19th and 20th centuries through the lens of women's lament traditions and includes philosophical texts by Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida; and literary works by William Faulkner, Stéphane Mallarmé, Dimitris Hatzis, and Tahar Ben Jelloun.