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1) In the womb
Publisher
National Geographic Channel
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From the moment of conception, every human embryo embarks on an incredible nine-month journey of development. Now, cutting-edge technology makes it possible for National Geographic Channel's "In the womb" to open a window into the hidden world of the fetus and explore each trimester in amazing new detail. Revolutionary 3-D and 4-D imagery sheds light on the delicate, dark world of a fetus as never before and follows a rare fetoscope operation, performed...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
ix, 306 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"What makes us the way we are? Is it the genes? The childhood environment? Or could it be that many of our individual characteristics--our health, our intelligence, our temperaments--are influenced by conditions encountered before birth? That's the claim of a provocative field known as fetal origins. Scientists are developing a radically new understanding of our very earliest experiences and how they exert lasting effects on us well into adulthood....
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
159 p. : col. ill. ; 22 x 24 cm.
Description
"An illustrated journey from conception to birth, based on the latest research and featuring images created with newly developed, state-of-the-art 3D and 4D ultrasound technology"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (316 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From the moment of conception, every human embryo embarks on an incredible nine-month journey of development. Now, cutting-edge technology makes it possible for National Geographic Channel's "In the womb" to open a window into the hidden world of the fetus and explore each trimester in amazing new detail. Revolutionary 3-D and 4-D imagery sheds light on the delicate, dark world of a fetus as never before and follows a rare fetoscope operation, performed...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is. Hunter appeared in their lives just a few years before--and his appearance was as mysterious as his past. With no family, no friends, and a background...
Author
Appears on list
Description
"Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--but John's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month--old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers."...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xv, 335 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
The mother of homicide victim Laci Peterson discusses Laci's life, the crime that took the lives of her daughter and her unborn grandson, the trial and conviction of Laci's husband Scott, and the impact of the tragedy on her family.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
This exploration of the spectacular yet commonplace journey of the development of human life from a single cell to birth draws on the latest research into how life and the body take shape.
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