Describes the parts and systems of the human body and discusses how they work.

""Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich...

Explores the different functions of the human body, with such topics as digestion, respiration, cell biology, and DNA explained in less than thirty seconds.

A five-year-old boy thinks his body is falling apart until he learns new teeth grow and hair and skin replace themselves.

Feet are made to go! They go many places. They do many things. Go, feet, go!--

"A lively, easy-to-read, and easy-to-use introduction to anatomy"--Provided by publisher.

Your marvelous hands can do so many things. They can even open this book to read it!--

Labeled die-cut illustrations show the different parts of the human body, from the outside through the major organs to the bones, and offer a simple explanation of the work that the each part does.