Can you name some of the muscles you use every day? Learn about how muscles give your body shape, keep your heart beating, and help you move. This title supports NGSS From Molecules to Organisms: Stru
What foods should you eat to stay healthy? Answer this question and others as you learn how food gives you energy, makes you stronger, and helps you stay healthy. This title supports NGSS From Molecul
Your body is a busy place. There's always something happening. From digestion to respiration, discover how the systems in your body work together to keep you strong. This title supports NGSS From Mole
Did you know the brain is the most complex organ in your body? Learn how and why scientists study the brain and how the brain affects behavior. This title supports NGSS From Molecules to Organisms: St
A sick or injured body is like a broken machine. Thankfully, it can often fix itself. Learn how the body fights germs, disease, and injury. This title supports NGSS From Molecules to Organisms: Struct
Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their social position. The authors of this volume explore these complexities, including how economic exchanges forge key social relationships
Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more – as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has cautiously embraced these mediums as a pote
Political constitutions alone do not guarantee democracy; a degree of economic equality is also essential. Yet contemporary economies, dominated as they are by global finance and political rent-seeker
A human economy puts people first in emergent world society. Money is a human universal and now takes the divisive form of capitalism. This book addresses how to think about money (from Aristotle to t
The government has broad powers to limit citizens’ rights. The government could and did censor the media (from television shows to websites) if it determined that the content would undermine social ha
This is Vitrano's first book in the Human Obsolescence series and is an unsettling account of the dramatic and unmitigated growth of technology moving forward. 2062 focuses on the year where computer
In Children, more than 300 photographs are presented in two sections. The first features images of children that the artist has known: being bathed or fed, laughing or crying with family members, posi
American photographer Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) has had an expansive career, photographing his subjects—from family and friends to political figures and celebrities—in their everyday environments, whi
The true aim of the raid on the research center is revealed by demi-human mastermind Sato, whose Bolshevik ruthlessness and cunning prove worthy of his choice of headgear.
A bright high schooler has discovered to his horror that death is just a repeatabl event for him - and that humanity has no mercy for a demi-human. To avoid becoming a science experiement for the rest
High school student Kei Nagai is struck dead in a grizzly traffic accident, but immediately revives to learn that he may not be like every other human. Instead, he may be a mysterious almost immortal
Johnny Storm is the youngest member of the world-famous Fantastic Four, with the powers and temperament of fire itself. Impulsive, restless and thrill-seeking by nature, the Torch doesn't need to wait
In this latest volume in the Human Evolution Series, Erik Trinkaus and his co-authors synthesize the research and findings concerning the human remains found at the Sunghir archaeological site. It has
The fourth installment of the critically acclaimed Super Human series The defeat of the near-invincible villain Krodin has left a void in the superhuman hierarchy, a void that two opposing factors
Historically, nutrient deficiencies have been of greater concern than dietary excess. However, along with the realization that deaths due to certain diseases are more prevalent in affluent countries c
The proportion of the population over 65 years of age is increasing steadily in most industrialized countries. In the United States the proportion of elderly people has risen from four percent in 1900
