Schaum's Outline of Human Anatomy and Physiology

by Kent M. Van De Graaff, R. Ward Rhees

Boiled-down essentials of the top-selling Schaum's Outline series for the student with limited time What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's Easy Outline series. Every book in this series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its predecessor. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, each new title features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form. Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials.

Genres: Nonfiction

160 pages, Paperback

First published August 26, 2009

Reviews

[Beth Cato · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the book that would never end, and it's only 186 pages.[return][return]I've never taken an anatomy course, and I'm not taking one now. My masochistic aim for reading this was to glean information to use for my upcoming book. Did it do the trick? This is a bare-bones [ha ha] book that pulls out the basic terms, tells students what they must know, and doesn't explain much beyond that. This would be a good book if used alongside class notes and some more detailed text, but on my own I slogged through and started foaming at the mouth more than once. I had to give up on any sort of memorization and just glean what I could.[return][return]What I'll probably end up doing is using this to find relevant terms and then use wikipedia or medical sites to see if it's applicable and if I'm using it in correct context.[return][return]Good book along with a class; bad, bad, bad for the ignorant layman.