physiology

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Smell

1996
Discusses the sense which enables some animals to detect their prey, search for food, signal danger, or find their way back to where they had been long ago.

Touch

1996
Explains the sense of touch including information on the function of the skin, how the body measures and feels temperatures, how it responds to pain, and the sensitivity of whiskers.

Taste

1996
Explores the sense of taste and how it functions in various animals, birds, insects, and fish.

Move your body

bones and muscles
2006
Explains how muscle and bones work together to help the human body move, in simple text with illustrations, providing information the skeletal system, muscles, nerves, and more.

Animal noses

2000
Describes the ways in which certain animals, such as snakes, dogs, weevils, moths, elephants, and owls, use their noses to pick up scents and breathe.

Animal ears

2000
Introduces the unique ears of bats, mosquitoes, owls, frogs, grasshoppers, shrews, and rabbits.

Eating a meal

how you eat, drink, and digest
1991
Explains each step of the digestive process.

Fingers and feelers

1990
Explores the sense of touch throughout the animal kingdom, examining how it works in mammals, birds, fish, insects, and humans.

The ultimate guys' body book

not-so-stupid questions about your body
2012
Presents information from a Christian perspective on a variety of topics for teenage boys, including steroids, alcohol use, body changes, tattoos, pornography, sexual behavior, and more.

What's going on down there?

answers to questions boys find hard to ask
1998
Describes the physical and emotional changes that occur in boys (and, to a lesser extent, in girls) during puberty and discusses sexual activity, homosexuality, AIDS, and other related topics.

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