Book Description
Provides information on both human and animal skeletons and their bones. Includes bone-tickling riddles that help identify different skeletons, and special see-through pages that show entire animals, inside and out.
Author : Katy Hall
Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Anatomy
ISBN : 9780448401089
Provides information on both human and animal skeletons and their bones. Includes bone-tickling riddles that help identify different skeletons, and special see-through pages that show entire animals, inside and out.
Author : Robert Winston
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1465459022
Did you know human bones are eight times stronger than concrete? Or that both humans and giraffes have seven vertebrae in their necks? You will learn about these amazing human body facts and much more in this fascinating book for children. Packed with amazing 3D computer images highlighted in different colors, The Skeleton Book allows children to explore every bone and joint in the human body in minute detail. Take a look at the spongy inside and tough exterior of the bone structure. Learn about the longest bone in the body and see how bones grow with age. Find out how millions of years of evolution has helped the human body to perform so many tasks with precision. Become a fossil detective and see how archaeologists study and reconstruct ancient skeletons. Explore the future with bionic skeletons and 3D printed bones. With an embossed cover and a pull out five-foot skeleton poster inside the book, The Skeleton Book gives perspective for kids to study a life-size version of the human skeleton.
Author : Steve Jenkins
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0545046513
A guide to human and animal skeletons provides informative comparisons while sharing such facts as the number of bones in the human body and the ways that skeletal structures work.
Author : Jason Morningstar
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780988390997
The Skeletons is meditative structured freeform game for 1-6 players. You'll need a few hours a private space. The Skeletons flips the script on the classic dungeon crawl-- here you play not the intruders, but the guardians, cursed to spend all of eternity defending a tomb. As time passes, both the tomb and its guardians will change. Ferocious battles are fought and won, and the skeletons slowly remember who and what they once were. Melancholy, introspective and spanning epochs, The Skeletons is unlike anything you've ever played.
Author : Janet Lawler
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Halloween
ISBN : 9781605809861
Two skeletons go trick-or-treating on Halloween, getting compliments on their "costumes", and making new friends.
Author : Lydia Pyne
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0698409426
An irresistible journey of discovery, science, history, and myth making, told through the lives and afterlives of seven famous human ancestors Over the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most of these discoveries live quietly in museum collections, there are a few that have become world-renowned celebrity personas—ambassadors of science that speak to public audiences. In Seven Skeletons, historian of science Lydia Pyne explores how seven such famous fossils of our ancestors have the social cachet they enjoy today. Drawing from archives, museums, and interviews, Pyne builds a cultural history for each celebrity fossil—from its discovery to its afterlife in museum exhibits to its legacy in popular culture. These seven include the three-foot tall “hobbit” from Flores, the Neanderthal of La Chapelle, the Taung Child, the Piltdown Man hoax, Peking Man, Australopithecus sediba, and Lucy—each embraced and celebrated by generations, and vivid examples of how discoveries of how our ancestors have been received, remembered, and immortalized. With wit and insight, Pyne brings to life each fossil, and how it is described, put on display, and shared among scientific communities and the broader public. This fascinating, endlessly entertaining book puts the impact of paleoanthropology into new context, a reminder of how our past as a species continues to affect, in astounding ways, our present culture and imagination.
Author : Claire Llewellyn
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Human skeleton
ISBN : 9780439148320
Author : Christine Quigley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780786410682
Of the parts of the human body, the bones have a unique durability that lends itself to collection. Provided a body has not been cremated, the skeletal remains can be recovered even millions of years after death, cleaned of flesh and debris, studied at length, and stored indefinitely without the maintenance that wet specimens require. Motivations for collecting human skeletal material range from the practical (in anthropology, medicine, forensics) to the ritualistic (phrenology, in the relics of martyrs and saints). This book is an examination of those motivations and the collections they have brought about--catacombs, ossuaries, mass graves, prehistoric excavations, private collections, and institutions. The book contains sections on procuring, handling, storing, transporting, cleaning, and identifying skeletal remains. The repatriation of remains and legislation covering the topic are also addressed.
Author : Douglas W. Owsley
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1467737291
On July 28, 1996, two young men stumbled upon human bones in the shallow water along the shore of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. Was this an unsolved murder? The remnants of some settler's or Native American's unmarked grave? What was the story behind this skeleton? Within weeks, scientific testing yielded astonishing news: the bones were more than 9,000 years old! The skeleton instantly escalated from interesting to extraordinary. He was an individual who could provide firsthand evidence about the arrival of humans in North America. The bones found scattered in the mud acquired a name: Kennewick Man. Authors Sally M. Walker and Douglas W. Owsley take you through the painstaking process of how scientists determined who Kennewick Man was and what his life was like. New research, never-before-seen photos of Kennewick Man's remains, and a lifelike facial reconstruction will introduce you to one of North America's earliest residents. But the story doesn't end there. Walker and Owsley also introduce you to a handful of other Paleoamerican skeletons, exploring their commonalities with Kennewick Man. Together, their voices form a chorus to tell the complex tale of how humans came to North America—if we will only listen.
Author : Michael Novak
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780679856467
A glowing skeleton tells about the bones in your body and how many bones you have, what each bone does, and how bones help you breathe.