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Vital Circuits: On Pumps, Pipes, and the Workings of Circulatory Systems
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Product Description: Most of us think about our circulatory system only when something goes wrong, but the amazing story of how it goes right--"magnificently right," as author Steven Vogel puts it--is equally worthy of our attention. It is physically remarkable, bringing food to (and removing waste from) a hundred trillion cells, coursing through 60,000 miles of arteries and veins (equivalent to over twice around the earth at the equator)...read more
By Rosemary Anne Calvert (illustrator) and Steven Vogel
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Hardcover:

9780195071559 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 16, 1992, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Compares the cardiovascular systems in mammals, birds, and fish, explaining how and why each system is different

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9780195082692 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 1, 1993), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Most of us think about our circulatory system only when something goes wrong, but the amazing story of how it goes right--"magnificently right," as author Steven Vogel puts it--is equally worthy of our attention.

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