STEM: Life Science/Health and Human Body
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50 Things You Should Know About - STEM Books — Library Bound Hardcover Set
From the Series 50 Things You Should Know About
The 50 Things You Should Know About series explores important topics from science to technology to art in 50 bite-sized chunks. Packed with facts, diagrams, infographics, and photos, this… Read More →
50 Things You Should Know About the Human Body
From the Series 50 Things You Should Know About
The human body is complicated and incredible! The many parts of the body form a network of systems that work together to keep you alive and active. Each chapter focuses on a different… Read More →
Addiction and Overdose: Confronting an American Crisis
Drug overdosing and death from prescription painkillers and heroin are at epidemic levels in the United States. How do people become addicted to opioids and other dangerous drugs, and why?… Read More →
A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds
"Should you encounter any of the plants in this book, do not treat them lightly. They can kill you. Or cause you unbearable agony. Or land you in jail. Consider yourself warned." Explore the… Read More →
Agriculture through the Ages: From Silk to Supermarkets
From the Series Technology through the Ages
"For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred [person] than agriculture."—Marcus Tullius Cicero,… Read More →
Antibiotics: A Graphic History
From the Series Medical Breakthroughs
Bacterial infections are a constant threat to human health. Antibiotics stop a bacterial infection from multiplying. They help treat pneumonia, strep throat, and many other infections. But… Read More →
A Trick of the Light
From the Series Optical Illusions
This title in the series looks at how light, color, and shade can mess with your mind! Learn how contrast, assimilation, and after-image can make things change color in front of your eyes,… Read More →
Biohackers
From the Series STEM Body
A woman waves her hand and her car roars to life. She touches her unadorned ear to take a call in the car as she drives to a cryotherapy parlor. She is a biohacker. What other technologies… Read More →
Body 2.0: The Engineering Revolution in Medicine
Scientists are on the verge of a revolution in biomedical engineering that will forever change the way we think about medicine, even life itself. Biomedical engineering isn't new. Humans… Read More →
Body Oddity Projects: Floating Arms, Balancing Challenges, and More
From the Series Unplug with Science Buddies ®
Step away from the screen and learn science in the real world. Discover amazing tricks of the human body with these hands-on projects like optical illusions, involuntary movement, and balance Read More →
Breakthrough: Katalin Karikó and the mRNA Vaccine
A thorough and accessible biography of Dr. Katalin Karikó, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, whose hard work pioneering mRNA research led to the COVID-19 vaccines. Her Read More →
Climate Change Basics: What Is Happening to Our World
From the Series Focus on Climate Change
What is climate change? How does it happen? Who does it affect? Climate Change Basics unpacks these key concepts and more, such as the difference between weather and climate, the role of the Read More →
Climate Change Effects: How Our World Is Affected
From the Series Focus on Climate Change
What happens when our climate changes? How does it impact life on Earth? From food, water, and agriculture to human health and communities, shifts in climate affect everything. Explore the… Read More →
Climate Warriors: Fourteen Scientists and Fourteen Ways We Can Save Our Planet
Who do you think of when you imagine a climate scientist? Maybe a biologist? Or a chemist? But economists study the climate too! Meet fourteen different scientists who are working to solve… Read More →
Cloning Humans
From the Series STEM Body
What makes a person who they are? This is one of the fundamental questions of human life. Scientists of the 21st century have made rapid advances in cloning and editing human DNA and cells,… Read More →
Cold Case Closed: Using Science to Crack Cold Cases
From the Series Crime Science
In this exciting exploration of crime science, readers will discover how cutting-edge science and state-of-the-art technology are the weapons of choice in the battle to solve cold cases. With Read More →
Could Humans Live Forever?
From the Series Searchlight Books ™ — What-If Science
What would it take for humans to live forever? Discover two ways we could become immortal—programming our brains into computers or improving medical technology—and the challenges of making… Read More →
Explore Bionics
From the Series Searchlight Books ™ — High-Tech Science
Bionics helps extend and save lives. Bionics is the science of building machines that mimic living things. Researchers and engineers are building better and better technologies to solve… Read More →
Explore Cryobiology
From the Series Searchlight Books ™ — High-Tech Science
Cryobiology is the science of cold. By studying animals in freezing temperatures, scientists learn how to use cold to make surgeries safer and preserve living organs. Cryobiology helps treat Read More →
Explore Forensic Science
From the Series Searchlight Books ™ — High-Tech Science
Forensic science is the use of scientific knowledge to solve a crime. All evidence is important to a forensic scientist, from fingerprints and bones to hidden messages and even bugs. Discover Read More →
Fascinating Fungi: Nourishers, Killers, Connectors, and Healers
From the ginormous, extinct Prototaxites to the web of mycelium stretching beneath our feet, fungi have always been all around us. Although scientists estimate that only 10 percent of fungi… Read More →
For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation
Experiment: A child is deliberately infected with the deadly smallpox disease without his parents' informed consent. Result: The world's first vaccine. Experiment: A slave woman is forced… Read More →
Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football's Make-or-Break Moment
When the 1905 football season ended, nineteen players were dead and countless others were critically injured. The public was outraged. The game had reached a make-or-break moment—fourth down… Read More →
Genomics: A Revolution in Health and Disease Discovery
Over the past 50 years, scientists have made incredible progress in the application of genetic research to human health care and disease treatment. Innovative tools and techniques, including Read More →