Carrying the Heart: Exploring the Worlds Within Us

by F. Gonzalez-Crussi

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"In Carrying The Heart, Dr. F. Gonzalez-Crussi reveals not just how our bodies breathe air, pump blood, give birth, digest food, and discard waste, but the sometimes bizarre, often hilarious, and always fascinating history of how mankind unlocks these anatomical secrets."--Jacket.

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