Body Organs

A murdered clerk. A body at Waterloo. A letter with a deadly secret. London, 1889. In the gloomy Dead Letter Office at St Martin’s Le Grand, young clerk Andrew Peverell spends his days sorting through letters that never found their intended reader. When three anonymous notes cross his desk –...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Read this book to gain a clear, jargon-free understanding of your body's vital filtration organs so you can confidently decode your lab results, see past commercial detox myths, and actively protect your long-term health. 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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

Shrink down for a playful educational adventure inside the human body, where kids discover how their anatomy truly works. Perfect for family commutes or engaging screen-free listening, this fantastic voyage transforms biology into a high-energy thrill ride. Guided by a wacky shrinking machine...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Everywhere we look, whether on TV or in a magazine, we're confronted with the same message. You need to be thinner, you need to be on a diet, you need to take so-called 'fat burning' supplements. But should this be accepted wisdom? What do we know about the fat that we would like to lose rather than embrace? No other organ - yes, fat is an organ - has so many prejudicial attitudes towards it with people having such limited knowledge about it.  

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...