science / life sciences / human anatomy & physiology

"Dancers of all styles, dance instructors, and dance-specific health professionals will discover exercises to improve physical strength, balance, flexibility, and resistance to injury. The third edition features 100 exercises and variations plus updated information on brain health, psychological awareness, and return from injury. In each exercise chapter, a dance movement feature highlights the muscles used in cambr? derri?re and side, pli?, en bas, pass?, d?velopp?, relev?, and arabesque. Illustrations show the muscles worked in each exercise and dance movement. Chapters are structured by body region, including spine, ribs, core, shoulders and arms, pelvis and hips, legs, and ankles and feet. The final chapter features full-body exercises"--.

"An introductory guide to human anatomy. Includes chapters on the skeletal, nervous, sensory, and digetive systems, and more"--Provided by publisher.

"Our genetic makeup determines so much about who we are, and what we pass on to our children--from eye color, to height, to health, and even our longevity. [This book] breaks down the science of how genes are inherited and passed from parents to offspring, what DNA is and how it works, how your DNA affects your health, and how you can use your personal genomics to find out more about who you are and where you come from"--Provided by publisher.

"Bill Bryson . . . guides us through the human body--how it functions, its remarkable ability to heal itself, and . . . the ways it can fail"--Provided by publisher.

"An empirical, exhaustive, and entertaining look at the body and its functions, in the vein of the author's stories and viral video series for The Atlantic on sleep, aging, diet, and more, examining and reassessing those health concerns that never seem to go away"--Provided by publisher.

"From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens-and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs. More than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new territory during the past fifty years, and 90 percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a disruptive, deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. To reveal how that might happen, Sonia Shah tracks each stage of cholera's dramatic journey from harmless microbe to world-changing pandemic, from its 1817 emergence in the South Asian hinterlands to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century world and its latest beachhead in Haiti. She reports on the pathogens following in cholera's footsteps, from the MRSA bacterium that besieges her own family to the never-before-seen killers emerging from China's wet markets, the surgical wards of New Delhi, the slums of Port-au-Prince, and the suburban backyards of the East Coast. By delving into the convoluted science, strange politics, and checkered history of one of the world's deadliest diseases, Pandemic reveals what the next epidemic might look like-and what we can do to prevent it"--.

A history of the heart in medicine, covering the first dissection of cadavers, the first heart surgeries which had to be completed in three minutes, and on to transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong the heart's life.

Discusses the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics.