blood

This book describes the different parts that move blood around your body and why your body needs it.

Discusses the composition of the blood and its importance to body function and describes the structure of the heart and its role in pumping the blood through the body.

Provides an overview of the physiology and circulation of blood, describing how different systems and organs work together to transport blood throughout the body, what role the blood plays, and what diseases can impact blood.

Describes the parts of the the circulatory system and how they function.

Discusses the heart, arteries, veins, blood, and other parts of the body's circulatory system and the causes and prevention of coronary heart disease.

Countess Erzebet Bizecka's blood ritual, in which she bathes in the blood of servant girls in order to achieve eternal youth and beauty, becomes dangerous when she meets a handsome stranger who shows her new ways to conduct the ceremony. Based on the life of Countess Erzs?bet B?thory who lived in Hungary in the sixteenth century.

Describes the politics, vendettas, plots, and international intrigues in the battle of the emerging practice of blood transfusions in seventeenth-century Europe and how the events in some ways mirror modern discussions over stem cells and cloning.

An exploration of the circulatory system that covers human heart transplant, the composition of blood, oxygen transport, anatomy, control of blood pressure and distribution, and responses to hemorrhage and exercise.

Describes the various parts of the human circulatory system and explains how and why blood is circulated throughout the body.

Presents a children's study of the heart and how it helps to pump blood throughout the body, and describes the arteries, blood cells, and veins.