skin

This book explores the potential health hazards and benefits in pursuing todays common and accepted permanent art of body piercing and tattoos.

An overview of skin cancer that discusses risk factors and diagnosis, actinic keratoses, basal and squamous cell carcinomas, melanoma, conventional and alternative treatments, and research. Includes a glossary, contact information for organizations, and suggestions for further reading.

Informative text, photographs, and real-life stories describe burn injuries and how they are treated and offer tips on burn prevention.

Presents a children's rhyming book for early readers that describes a little boy's question of race, traits, and human values.

Step-by-step photographic guide to applying makeup, with information on how to determine skin type, face shape, and coloring, programs for skin-care regimes, and lessons on the best colors and techniques for various skin tones, types, and facial features.

Illustrations, photos, charts, diagrams, and text help children learn how the cells, tissues, and skin of the human body work together.

Explores how the human body repairs and renews itself, looking specifically at the cycles of regrowing hair and nails, breathing, and blood circulation.

Describes various types of rashes with information on how they affect people, how they spread, and how to treat them, including some rashes associated with childhood diseases.

Accident-prone Joey cannot think of an idea for Science Day until he becomes inspired by all his scrapes and scabs.

Describes how the body responds to wounds and heals itself when the skin is broken and discusses how to care for minor abrasions.