Human biology

Outbreaks of Ebola can be scary and deadly.

Bring the outside inside the classroom using Learning about Amphibians for grades 4 and up!

Help your child learn about evolution with this fact-packed guide, giant wallchart, interactive clip-art CD and dedicated websiteFrom the biological code that links all living things to what happened during the Ice Age; let your child trace the discoveries that explore and explain the amazing diversity of life on Earth.

Every year, mosquitoes pass parasites that cause malaria to hundreds of millions of people, and hundreds of thousands die.

Steve Jones's highly acclaimed, double prize-winning, bestselling first book is now fully revised to cover all the new genetic breakthroughs from GM food to Dolly the sheep.

Come face to face with mysterious snakes with the Junior Scientists series for kids ages 6 to 9Take an amazing journey into the wonderful world of snakes-fangs, rattles, scales, and all.

'Learn to love your gut with this jam-packed book from Dr Megan' - Jamie Oliver'Say bye bye to bloating, help with the stress of IBS and give a big warm welcome to wellness (.

Each year typhoid fever affects up to 20 million people.

A startling investigation of what it means to be human.

Human Biology is a key subject of study in all the subjects related to medicine from radiology to pharmacology.

What are you?

In this fascinating, mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing account of the origins of language ever published.

In this fascinating, mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing account of the origins of language ever published.

Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar.

What are you?

Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar.

Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome.

The debut of a female Steve Jones - likeable, literate, lucid and laconic.

Now shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf is a resonant exploration of economic behaviour and its consequences.

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The immune system is central to human health and the focus of much medical research.

Our sense of smell - or olfaction as it is technically known - is our most enigmatic sense.

What makes an ant an ant?

Tied into the KS1 science curriculum, this book takes a lively, attractive look at British trees.

Hormones play an integral part in the balance and workings of the body.

The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly.

Tied into the KS1 science curriculum, this book takes a lively, attractive look at British animals.

How does the digestive system work?

Can you taste words, feel flavours as a shape, or hear colors?

What is epidemiology?

How do the skeleton and muscles work?

What makes a bee a bee?

"e;One of the most delightful natural history studies in decades.

Did you know that snakes poo and pee at the same time?

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Physiology is the science of life, and sets out to understand how living things work and what makes them distinct from the non-living.

Why do humans look like they do?

What makes a beetle a beetle?

A vast subject that includes a strange vocabulary and an apparent mass of facts, human anatomy can at first appear confusing and off-putting.

Did you know that cats learn to purr when they are only a few days old?

Did you know that spiders have hundreds of hairs, which they use to hear with?

Did you know that dolphins sleep with one eye open?

For thousands of years, smallpox was one of the world's most feared diseases.

The topic of stem cells has a high profile in the media.

A vast subject that includes a strange vocabulary and an apparent mass of facts, human anatomy can at first appear confusing and off-putting.

The bubonic plague is a disease spread by fleas that live on rats.

The topic of stem cells has a high profile in the media.

The immune system is central to human health and the focus of much medical research.

Tied into the KS1 science curriculum, this book takes a lively, attractive look at British birds.