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Pump : a natural history of the heart  Cover Image Book Book

Pump : a natural history of the heart / Bill Schutt ; illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne.

Schutt, Bill, (author.). Wynne, Patricia, (illustrator.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781616208936 : HRD
  • ISBN: 1616208937 : HRD
  • Physical Description: 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Illustrated with black-and-white line drawings.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271).
Subject: Heart.
Animals.
History.
Anatomy.
Human anatomy.
Heart > Anatomy.

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East Grand Forks Campbell Library 612.17 SCHUTT 2021 (Text) 520958 Non-Fiction Available -

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1001 . ‡aSchutt, Bill, ‡eauthor.
24510. ‡aPump : ‡ba natural history of the heart / ‡cBill Schutt ; illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne.
250 . ‡aFirst edition.
264 1. ‡aChapel Hill, North Carolina : ‡bAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill, ‡c2021.
300 . ‡a271 pages : ‡billustrations ; ‡c24 cm
336 . ‡atext ‡btxt ‡2rdacontent
337 . ‡aunmediated ‡bn ‡2rdamedia
338 . ‡avolume ‡bnc ‡2rdacarrier
500 . ‡aIllustrated with black-and-white line drawings. 
504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 259-271).
520 . ‡aIn this lively, unexpected look at the hearts of animals—from fish to bats to humans—American Museum of Natural History zoologist Bill Schutt tells an incredible story of evolution and scientific progress. We join Schutt on a tour from the origins of circulation, still evident in microorganisms today, to the tiny hardworking pumps of worms, to the golf-cart-size hearts of blue whales. We visit beaches where horseshoe crabs are being harvested for their blood, which has properties that can protect humans from deadly illnesses. We learn that when temperatures plummet, some frog hearts can freeze solid for weeks, resuming their beat only after a spring thaw. And we journey with Schutt through human history, too, as philosophers and scientists hypothesize, often wrongly, about what makes our ticker tick. Schutt traces humanity’s cardiac fascination from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, who believed that the heart contains the soul, all the way up to modern-day laboratories, where scientists use animal hearts and even plants as the basis for many of today’s cutting-edge therapies.
650 0. ‡aHeart.
650 0. ‡aAnimals.
650 0. ‡aHistory.
650 0. ‡aAnatomy.
650 0. ‡aHuman anatomy.
650 0. ‡aHeart ‡xAnatomy.
7001 . ‡aWynne, Patricia, ‡eillustrator.
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