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Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (28 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Learn all about the incredible things your heart, lungs, arteries, and circulatory system do and how to keep them healthy and strong! With vibrant images and informational text in conjunction with supportive diagrams and stimulating facts, readers are introduced to basic biology and vocabulary.
2) My lungs
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What happens when you take a deep breathe? Woosh! Air rushes into your lungs. Your lungs help you get the air you need to live. They work with your heart to send oxygen around your body and get rid of waste you don't want. And that's not all! Explore what's inside you with fun text, bright pictures, and lively illustrations"--
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (28 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
Español
Description
Explores the inner workings of the heart and lungs and discusses how these organs allow us to breathe and pump blood throughout our bodies. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Offers dozens of numerical facts related to the human respiratory and circulatory systems. Describes their sizes and parts, functions, and disorders; and offers ways to keep them healthy. Includes color photographs, maps and charts, a glossary, a quiz, and further resources.
6) Respiration
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the topic of respiration along with the use of the scientific method to further understanding. Includes six experiments involving the nose, windpipe, bronchi, lungs, and diaphragm.
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents an overview of the respiratory system, including its functions and structure, as well as information about respiratory problems and how to keep lungs healthy. Includes a glossary, a list of additional resources, and critical thinking using the Common Core questions.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"An authoritative, accessible guide to how our lungs work and how to protect them. Most of us pay little attention to the workings of our lungs, but the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked interest in their functioning and fear about the risks they face. Dr. MeiLan K. Han, a leading pulmonologist and a national spokesperson for the American Lung Association, takes readers on a fascinating tour of this most vital organ. Han explains the wonder of breathing...
Author
Series
Blessings Georgia volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fifteen years ago, Hunter Knox abruptly left Georgia amid violence and family secrets. He never thought he'd show his face in Blessings ever again, but with his mom on her deathbed, Hunt is back for one final goodbye. Nurse Ava Ridley is surprised when Hunt joins her at his mother's bedside. They were teenagers when she last saw him, and she had a wicked crush on him even then. Although many years have passed, Ava can't help but feel those same butterflies...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
199 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After receiving his cancer diagnosis, Wangerin wrote letters about confronting his mortality, about living with the messiness of undone tasks and bodily weakness. These meditations present his testimony to faith, love, and the shocking reality of hope.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Takes a closer look at the lungs' role in the respiratory system. Explores the path air takes once it enters our bodies and lungs and reveals how the lungs play a part in yawning and hiccupping.
14) Five feet apart
Author
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-olds Stella and Will, both suffering from cystic fibrosis, realize the only way to stay alive is to stay apart, but their love for each other is slowly pushing the boundaries of physical and emotional safety.
Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella and Will both suffer from cystic fibrosis. Being together means they could pass an infection. Stella is waiting for a lung transplant; Will is on a clinical drug trial. The only...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor. Unexpectedly, he met and fell in love with a renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years. When Joan died in 2021, her final challenge to him was to find a "pocketful of happiness in every day." This honest and frequently hilarious...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Uncovers the sobering resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, the cover-up activities of the coal mining industry, and the awareness activities of regional mining communities.
In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Chris Hamby, uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resilient mining communities who refuse to back down. Decades have passed...
17) Our lungs
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Book Life
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
32 pages : colour illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Learning about the human body has never before felt like such an adventure. Follow your guide through the most important systems in the body and discover the various organs that have to work together just to keep you alive. With child-friendly language and eye-catching design, this series makes biology fun and easy.