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Article: David Macaulay with Richard Walker: The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
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- September 1, 2008
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* David Macaulay with Richard Walker The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body; illus, by David Macaulay
336 pp. Lorraine/Houghton 10/08 ISBN 978-0-618-23378-6 $35.00 (g)
(Middle School, High School)
In a companion volume to The Way Things Work (rev. 3/89), Macaulay turns his prodigious curiosity and formidable talents to the fields of anatomy and physiology. The opening chapter introduces basic concepts of biology and chemistry at the cellular level while subsequent chapters take us through the various systems of the body: respiratory, circulatory, digestive, urinary, nervous, lymphatic, skeletal, muscular, and reproductive. In ...