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Body: A Graphic Guide to Us
A Graphic Guide to Us is the ultimate visual guide to the human body broken down into thematic sections of the physical, chemical, genetic, sensitive, coordinated, thinking, growing and medical body. Information gathered together by established author Steve Parker, is beautifully displayed through the striking and accessible graphics by artist Andrew Baker .
Composed of some 206 bones, 100,000 km of blood vessels and millions of new cells each second, our bodies are so much more than the sum of their parts. It is an unceasing source of wonder and something we carry with us until the day we die, yet most of us know remarkably little about it. Moving away from the tired treatment of an anatomical guide, this is an intriguing and beautiful approach to our most universal and prized possession. Featuring 100 stunning graphics and illustrations, the full spectrum is from our most basic components through to the brain's complex synaptic processes as well as the weird and the wonderful of modern medicine. BODY is the ideal guide to shed some light on truly getting to know yourself.
Composed of some 206 bones, 100,000 km of blood vessels and millions of new cells each second, our bodies are so much more than the sum of their parts. It is an unceasing source of wonder and something we carry with us until the day we die, yet most of us know remarkably little about it. Moving away from the tired treatment of an anatomical guide, this is an intriguing and beautiful approach to our most universal and prized possession. Featuring 100 stunning graphics and illustrations, the full spectrum is from our most basic components through to the brain's complex synaptic processes as well as the weird and the wonderful of modern medicine. BODY is the ideal guide to shed some light on truly getting to know yourself.
- GenresScience
224 pages, Hardcover
Published November 4, 2016
About the author
Steve Parker
1,039 books86 followersSteve Parker is a British science writer known for producing hundreds of children's and adult nonfiction books covering zoology, medicine, evolution, and natural history. Educated at the University of Wales, Bangor, where he earned first class honours in zoology, he later worked at the Natural History Museum and held editorial positions at Dorling Kindersley before becoming a freelance author during the late 1980s. Parker contributed early titles to the acclaimed Eyewitness series and later wrote award-winning books including Science Crazy, Fizzing Physics, The Human Body Book, and Kill or Cure. He has also edited major collaborative works on evolution and medicine, regularly visits schools and libraries, and serves as a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.
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May 25, 2017
Great idea, execution not so great.
No references for all of the statistics.
Some of the graphics are more confusing than helpful.
No references for all of the statistics.
Some of the graphics are more confusing than helpful.
April 21, 2019
Libro básico para niños
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