A young girl learns about skin diving equipment, safety precautions, and techniques at the community pool and looks forward to using her new skills in ocean skin diving.

Explores the many different shades of human skin, and points out that skin is just a covering that does not reveal what someone is like inside.

Skin cancer affects more than 200,000 people every year in the United States alone and can strike people of any age or race. Prevention and early detection are incredibly important in reducing cases of America's most common cancer. Through engaging text, augmented with full-color photographs, quotes from experts, and detailed charts, readers learn about the newest data and research pertaining to skin cancer as well as the steps they can take to reduce...

Explains how skin, the largest organ in the body, encloses and protects muscles, bones, and internal tissues while playing a key role in keeping a person comfortable and healthy. Explores the differences between the three types of muscle fibers and their locations. Describes the arrangement of the bones and how their placement gives the body form and assists in movment.

"Ideal for clinic use, both for diagnosis and for explaining to the patient, this guide provides: a quick reference atlas guide to the diagnosis skin lesions, especially, but not limited to, those that are cancerous icons for each condition linked to high definition dermoscopy and clinical photographs. Real dermatoscopic images and the associated clinical photographs on the page opposite"--Provided by publisher.