Body Organs

Our gut is almost as important to us as our brain, yet we know very little about how it works. Gut: The Inside Story is an entertaining, informative tour of the digestive system from the moment we raise a tasty morsel to our lips until the moment our body surrenders the remnants to the toilet bowl. No topic is too lowly for the author's wonder and admiration, from the careful choreography of breaking wind to the precise internal communication required for a cleansing vomit.

From the international bestselling author of Gut, an entertaining and highly informative book about how the body’s organs work in tandem to keep us as healthy as we can be. In a world that is becoming ever louder and more complex, sometimes the best perspective is to look inward—at our own...

Your body has been quietly running one of the most sophisticated filtration systems on Earth since the day you were born. Two bean-shaped kidneys, each no bigger than a computer mouse, filter your entire blood supply more than a dozen times every hour. A dense, reddish-brown organ tucked under your right ribcage performs over five hundred distinct chemical operations every single day. Yet most people could not tell you what the glomerular filtration rate is, why the liver runs a two-phase biotransformation process, or what is actually happening in their urinary tract when an infection takes...

The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts. Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit led the development of antiseptics. Robert Jenkin's ear started a war. All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and...

Body of Work, An Eric Hoffer Award Gold Medal Finalist for Best Fiction A biotech empire guards a secret no one is meant to uncover. Death is no longer the end. Olivia is a wife and young mother raising twins on a quiet rural farm. Seemingly far from the danger and unaware of it, she feels safe in her pastoral world, but she is terribly wrong. An unexpected connection draws her into Haloderm, a biomedical company advancing robotic surgery, AI-driven diagnostics, organ reuse, and deep space travel medicine. Publicly, it saves lives. Privately, human cadavers are cataloged, barcoded, valued, ...

"A thrilling journey through health and disease - seen through the secret lives of our cells and organs." TIM SPECTOR The international bestselling author of Gut returns with a spellbinding voyage through the human body Sometimes we need to look inward to better understand life outside. Deep...

This groundbreaking work of practical, popular science reveals that fat is much smarter than we think. Fat is an obsession, a dirty word, a subject of national handwringing—and, according to biochemist Sylvia Tara, the least-understood part of our body. You may not love your fat, but your body...

An interactive guide to human anatomy for kids. With 10,000 words and in depth discussions and color images of major body systems (heart, lungs, brain, kidneys, digestive system, pancreas, cells, eyes, ears, and more) this ebook designed for children and teens is a great learning resource youth and children interested in learning more about the human body.

Some houses feel heavy. Some dreams always end in fear. Some people walk into a room, and peace disappears. If you've ever felt a strange resistance during prayer, or sudden oppression in certain places, you're likely dealing with demonic presence. Evil Presence is not just a teaching, it is a spiritual exposure of hidden monitoring spirits, familiar spirits, and demonic atmospheres that follow, oppress, and restrict. These spirits create an invisible fog that confuses the mind, pollutes environments, and delays destinies. In this book, you’ll discover: How to identify and remove unclean ...

Transform your understanding of the human gut: An enlightening journey through the most underrated organ with Dr. Giulia Enders' groundbreaking exploration of digestive health, microbial connections, and whole-body wellness. Discover the secrets of your digestive system—and how to hone a...

An informative, blisteringly funny, somewhat cranky and always spot-on guide to perimenopause and menopause by the award-winning sex ed/health educator and author of S.E.X. "Heather Corinna Makes Menopause Accessible, Hilarious, and Queer AF." —Autostraddle Did you see the title and...

“An eye-opening dazzler” (Stephen King) about a pair of globetrotting, gore-obsessed investigative journalists whose entanglement in a French philosopher’s death becomes a surreal journey into global conspiracy from legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg. Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi...

The international bestselling author of Gut returns with a spellbinding voyage through the human body Sometimes we need to look inward to better understand life outside. Deep within us, forces are at work that protect, heal and keep us alive day after day - mostly without us even noticing. In...

A rigorously fact-checked, funny, accessible, gender-inclusive and fully illustrated guide to the anatomy, history, and sociology of the pussy. "A hilarious, ridiculously informative and absolutely necessary atlas for people with pussies." —Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Bad...

The full potential of the female brain is astonishing and virtually unlimited—it possesses both strengths and vulnerabilities unique to women. In this in-depth audio learning program, bestselling author and brain science pioneer Dr. Daniel Amen offers a practical, prescriptive plan for women...

Have fun learning about some of the organs of your body along with this quiz for you to guess them.

The turbulent history of women’s bodies, from classical Greece to the modern day Breasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb. Across history, these body parts have told women who they are and what they should do. Although knowledge of each part has changed through time, none of them tells a simple...

The stomach is notoriously outspoken. It growls, gurgles, and grumbles while other organs remain silent. For centuries humans have puzzled over this rowdy organ, deliberating on the extent of its influence over cognition, mental wellbeing, and emotions, and wondering how the gut became so central to our sense of self. Traveling from ancient Greece to Victorian England, eighteenth-century France to modern America, historian Elsa Richardson leads us on a tour of the gut, exploring all the ways that we have imagined, theorized, and probed the mysteries of the gastroenterological system.

A Second Chance. A Deadly Secret. Grace, a brilliant young scientist with terminal cancer, is offered a revolutionary new treatment: a full body transplant. Reborn into the healthy body of a suicide victim, she is sworn to secrecy about her illicit surgery. But her miraculous recovery sparks suspicion. Grace becomes the target of an unseen enemy who is relentlessly hunting her, determined to unearth the truth and extinguish her borrowed life. Thrust into a sinister cat-and-mouse game, she fights for her life, love, and the very essence of who she is. The Body Transplant is a gripping ...

Há muito tempo que o intestino é o órgão mais ignorado e menos apreciado do corpo humano, mas hoje sabemos que ele não é responsável somente pelo trabalho sujo: nosso intestino está no âmago de quem nós somos. O discreto charme do intestino, um best-seller internacional, confere ao intestino os momentos de fama que ele sempre mereceu.