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Why don’t women have beards? Why do we get chapped lips? This book about the workings of the human body will answer these questions and more! Readers will explore the splendidly strange ins and outs of why we have teeth, what eyebrows do, and how skin protects a body. Young readers will be inspired to expand their understanding of what makes a person’s body look and function the way it does. Fact boxes and colorful photographs will attract readers’ attention, bringing curricular topics to life in a fun and exciting way.

Why don’t women have beards? Why do we get chapped lips? This book about the workings of the human body will answer these questions and more! Readers will explore the splendidly strange ins and outs of why we have teeth, what eyebrows do, and how skin protects a body. Young readers will be inspired to expand their understanding of what makes a person’s body look and function the way it does. Fact boxes and colorful photographs will attract readers’ attention, bringing curricular topics to life in a fun and exciting way.

Why can't we breathe underwater? Is the small intestine really longer than the human body? How does our brain tell the rest of our body what to do? Find the answers to these and lots of other human body puzzlers inside this fantastic, fact-packed book. Perfect for curious kids aged 8 and up.

Answers to Life's Questions From the Book of Job When pain or tragedy strikes, the first question most of us ask is, "Why?" We're in good company. The biblical book of Job tells the story of a man who lost everything--his children, his wealth, and even his health--and also wanted to know why. Why should he, a God-fearing man, suffer so much? Why did God allow it? Job did not get the answer he expected. In fact, God began to ask questions of His own--70 questions, to be exact. And in His response to a grieving, broken man, we can catch glimpses of hope in the midst of our own suffering. Join Ray Comfort as he journeys into Job's extraordinary story. You'll find that, when God Speaks, He will transform you and forever change your perspective on suffering and faith.

The human body is an amazing machine made up of many fascinating systems. This fun, fact-filled book features a series of questions and answers about how the human body works. Readers will learn what hormones do and how blood travels through the body. Colorful images and clear diagrams make it easy to understand these important biology and health concepts. A “further information” section provides additional resources for readers who are interested in learning more about how the human body works.

Describes nineteen different bird families with advice on ways to attract each family with nesting sights, shrub cover, and a variety of specific plant suggestions.

with essays by Peter S. Reed, Robert Friedel, Margaret Crawford, Greg Hise, Joel Davidson, and Michael Sorkin Among the legacies of World War II was a massive building program on a scale that America had not seen before and has not seen since. The war effort created thousands of factories, homes, even entire cities throughout the country. Many of these structures still stand, the physical evidence of an unprecedented ability to harness the power and resources of a people. The complex legacy of this most notable period in our nation's history is discussed from a different perspective by each contributor. Peter S. Reed, Associate Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, details the rise of modern architecture during the war -- housing designs that used the latest ideas in prefabricated construction methods, lightweight materials, innovative technologies, and a corporate and institutional aesthetic that helped popularize modernism as the appropriate image of American industrial might and corporate success. Robert Friedel, Professor of History at the University of Maryland, documents the development of new materials, especially plastics, and discusses techniques for employing traditional materials in novel ways. Margaret Crawford, Chair of the History and Theory of Architecture Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, explores the struggle of women and blacks for public housing. Greg Hise, Assistant Professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Southern California, considers how the construction of large-scale residential communities near defense plants prefigured postwar suburbia. Joel Davidson, historian of the "World War II and the American Dream" exhibition, analyzes the impact of the war's building program on the postwar military-industrial complex. Finally, Michael Sorkin, architect and writer, explores the migration of certain values and aesthetics from the necessities of war to the choices of peace. Among these are images of speed, camouflage, ruin, totalization, and flight. Copublished with The National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

The angels that ruled the world are long dead, and tomorrow belongs to the demons. Splinter, a young, wingless demon aristocrat, has a choice: accept his place in the empire, inheriting a castle and a magic sword, or place his trust in his human girlfriend and their sorcery tutor, joining a terrorist plot that may spill more blood and bring more misery than the brutal wars of centuries past. "The Struggle" is the first book in the saga of Demon Land, the continent where the desperate Empire of Apollyon strives to invade, infest, and infect, the world of Erde.