"Explores 'yucky' diseases, including leprosy, plague, tapeworms, and more"--Provided by publisher.

"Explores 'yucky' foods from around the world, including frog legs, grubs, scrapple, maggot cheese, and more"--Provided by publisher.

"Explores 'yucky' things animals do, including slime-producing animals, blood-ingesting animals, and more"--Provided by publisher.

"Explores 'yucky' things about the human body, including earwax, gas, bodily wastes, and more"--Provided by publisher.

Readers will get an up-close and personal view of the creatures that might be crawling around their own bodies even as they read. Full of gross facts and creepy pictures, this book is sure to captivate reluctant readers. Sidebars and an additional resources section enrich the text.

"Explores various 'yucky' jobs, including crime-scene cleaning, pig farming, snake milking, and more"--Provided by publisher.

Every new print copy includes Navigate Advantage access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools. Now in it's ninth edition, Alters & Schiff Essential Concepts for Healthy Living provides students with all the information they need to know to make informed health decisions and embrace a healthy lifestyle. Integrating evidence-based data and statistics with hands-on, critical thinking activities, the text guides readers toward healthy living through an analysis of their own health behaviors. The authors combine evidence-based information with critical thinking activities to guide students toward healthy living through analysis of their own health behavior. The Eighth Edition is updated with the latest topics and issues related to sexuality, gender and culture, community violence, consumer health, and much more. Through active use of the text students wil

An extraordinary array of infectious agents affect humans, from worms and fungi to bacteria and prions. This compendium of the curious organisms that cause disease provides a fact-filled account of the nature of each organism, the ways in which they infect humans, and the human stories behind their discovery