{"product_id":"systematic-me-poems-and-plays-about-the-human-body-9781732345201","title":"Systematic Me: Poems and Plays About The Human Body","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brod Bagert | Natalia King\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Living Road Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Living Road Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science \u0026amp; Nature - Anatomy \u0026amp; Physiology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSystematic Me\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eEntertaining, Instructional, and Comprehensive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlands and hormones, hormones and glands, \u003cbr\u003e constantly sending their bio-commands, \u003cbr\u003e adjusting my state on an hourly basis, \u003cbr\u003e keeping my body in homeostasis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \"My Noble Glands\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe natural inquisitiveness of young minds will take flight as they meet, live and in person, the celebrities of the human body-the cells, organs, and systems that together maintain homeostasis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in the long-standing principle that children remember \"90% of what they do in dramatic presentation,\" this poignant yet comical collection of dramatic poems, monologues, and plays makes the study of the human body a thing of joy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cookie hilariously describes every step of its teeth-to-toilet journey through a human digestive system. A spunky child virus ignores its mother's horrific warnings with disastrous consequences as it runs face-to-face into the denizens of a human child's immune system. Peter and Paul Kidney, the famous PP Twins, reveal the truisms they learned in Excretory College as they describe their role in eliminating liquid waste from the body of rambunctious Alexander Pic. And Miss Medulla Oblongata, part of the brainstem of young Quanesha Jones, is interviewed by talk show host C.T. Scan to reveal how she and her sister brain regions prevent Quanesha from falling \"flat on her face on that dance floor.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom skin to skeleton to the electro-chemical function of neuron cells, \u003cem\u003eSystematic Me\u003c\/em\u003e transforms complexity into simplicity, the theoretical into the concrete, the detachment of abstract concepts into the immediacy of imagined personal experience--accurate, emotional, and entertaining.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46456656363671,"sku":"9781732345201","price":2234.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781732345201.webp?v=1769179154","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/systematic-me-poems-and-plays-about-the-human-body-9781732345201","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}