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How It Reacts to Stress
How It Reacts to Stress
Space explorer Zork becomes curious when he sees some children who look unhappy. “Why do Earth people get upset?” Zork wonders. He learns that...
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How It Uses Food
How It Uses Food
On space explorer Zork’s home planet, the inhabitants do not eat. He wonders then, why humans put objects into their mouths. On his latest visit to...
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How Its Parts Work Together
How Its Parts Work Together
At the same time that people breathe, they also digest food, circulate blood, move, think and do so much more. But how? As space explorer Zork...
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How We Breathe (2nd Ed.)
How We Breathe (2nd Ed.)
Space explorer Zork wonders why earthlings huff and puff somuch when they exercise. On a very informative Earth visit, he discovers it’s because...
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How We Keep Fit (2nd Ed.)
How We Keep Fit (2nd Ed.)
As space explorer Zork discovers after watching some tired and out of shape youngsters playing, for human bodies to work most efficiently they need...
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How Will I Survive?
How Will I Survive?
"How Will I Survive?" is the positive story of six women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. The audience learns about the physical and...
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The Human Body Series: 10 Titles
The Human Body Series: 10 Titles
Explore the mechanics of the human body with this informative and detailed series. Excellent visual resource for students, parents, and teachers. ...
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The Human Body: Circulatory System (2nd Ed., Rev.)
The Human Body: Circulatory System (2nd Ed., Rev.)
In this program, animation and anatomical drawings trace the two great circuits of the bloodstream, looping through the lungs and passing to and from...
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The Human Body: Digestive System (2nd Ed., Rev.)
The Human Body: Digestive System (2nd Ed., Rev.)
Identify—through detailed animation and x-ray images—the major organs in the digestive process and examine how they work together to bring nutrients...
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The Human Body: Endocrine System (Rev.)
The Human Body: Endocrine System (Rev.)
Detailed animation identifies the endocrine glands and explains how they work together, often under the direction of the pituitary gland. Additional...
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The Human Body: Excretory System (2nd Ed., Rev.)
The Human Body: Excretory System (2nd Ed., Rev.)
Through animation and x-ray motion pictures, examine the workings of the excretory system as it removes the potentially deadly wastes generated by...
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The Human Body: Muscular System (2nd Ed., Rev.)
The Human Body: Muscular System (2nd Ed., Rev.)
Various types of muscle tissue are examined with respect to the basic chemistry of their operation and their arrangement within the framework of the...
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