Itch! : everything you didn't want to know about what makes you scratch
(2018)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
J/612.79/SANCHEZ,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]
DESCRIPTION
74 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780544811010, 0544811011 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Skin! a bag with you in it -- Lice! scratching through the centuries -- Flea! welcome to the circus -- Plants! the green world fights back -- Mosquito! why they love to bite us -- Tarantula! remember me -- Fungus! the invisible itch -- Bedbugs! learning a smelly language -- Itching! is there anything good about itching?
Provides a scientific explanation for the reasons why people itch; describes the animals and plants responsible; and discusses how people have dealt with itching and the impact it has had in history
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