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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.
107) Los pulmones
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A closer look at the lungs and how they work with the respirtory system to help bring oxygen into the body.
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"This book tells the remarkable story of how David Chill overcame a terminal lung cancer diagnosis. David Chill's prognosis was grim, and his life expectancy was projected in months, not years. He was considered to be at Stage 4 - and most Stage 4 lung cancer patients die quickly. There is no cure. Life became a jolting roller coaster ride that did not stop. But David Chill's success at navigating a deadly disease is a story you need to read, and...
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"Lung cancer is explained in graphic novel format in this informative story that makes the science behind cancer accessible to young readers. The Medikidz are larger-than-life superheroes who live in Mediland, a living, moving virtual world within the human body. Each character is an expert on one component of human anatomy and the role it plays in fighting the disease. Using their extensive combined knowledge, the Medikidz conduct a journey through...
110) Pulmonary physiology
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"The tenth edition of Pulmonary Physiology has been thoroughly updated. New figures and tables have been added and others revised to help students visualize concepts more clearly and learn the material more effectively. New references and clinical correlations have been added to the end of each chapter. This book is intended to be used both as an introductory text for beginning students and as a review for residents and fellows in such fields as internal...
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"Exhale is the riveting memoir of a top transplant doctor who rode the emotional rollercoaster of saving and losing lives -- until it was time to step back and reassess his own life. A young father with a rare form of lung cancer who has been turned down for a transplant by several hospitals. A kid who was considered not "smart enough" to be worthy of a transplant. A young mother dying on the waiting list in front of her two small children. A father...
113) Who is Martha?
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"96-year-old ornithologist Luka Levadski foregoes treatment for lung cancer and moves from Ukraine to Vienna to make a grand exit in a luxury suite at the Hotel Imperial. He reflects on his past while indulging in Viennese cakes and savoring music in a gilded concert hall. Levadski was born in 1914, the same year that Martha--the last of the now-extinct passenger pigeons--died. Levadski himself has an acute sense of being the last of a species. He...
116) Los pulmones
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Discusses the lungs, their role in the respiration system and in breathing, and the importance of taking care of them.
119) El buen doctor
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"Paul Kalanithi, a young and promising neurosurgeon, received a devastating diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer at the age of thirty-six. He was a doctor treating patients one day and the next was struggling for his own life. On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training, he decided to begin writing this book to come to terms with and give closure to his life, and to face death with courage. What makes a life worth living in the face of death?...