The Human Body in Minutes: 200 key concepts illustrated and explained in an instant

in Minutes

by Tom Jackson

A concise and illuminating tour of the human body - learn about how our bodies work and why they work the way they do, in minutes. From the basic unit of the cell, through the tissues and organs that make up the body's systems, to how these systems work together to form a complete human being, this book takes you on a journey through our anatomy and its intricate workings - and looks beyond to explore human evolution, inheritence and genetics, human behaviour, disease, death and medicine and how technology will transform the body of the future.With 200 cutting-edge anatomical images, cross-sections and close-ups that detail and explain the brain, eye, heart, skin, skeleton, lung, kidney, ear, blood, liver, stomach, muscles, veins, arteries, DNA, chromosomes and all of the key features of our bodies, this is the perfect, easy reference to the anatomy, physiology and science of the human body.

Genres: Biology, Nonfiction

416 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2017

About the author

"I'm a non-fiction author and project editor (plus I do a bit of journalism). I'm available for project development, writing, project management and I also work as a packager. Click on the links above to see examples of my work.

But first some background: Over the last 20 years, I've written books, magazine and newspaper articles, for online and for television. I get to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. However, my specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. I've worked on projects with Brian May, Patrick Moore, Marcus de Sautoy and Carol Vorderman and for major international publishers, such as Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, Scholastic, Hachette, Facts on File and BBC Magazines.

I spend my days finding fun ways of communicating all kinds of facts, new and old, to every age group and reading ability. I live in Bristol, England, with my wife and three children. I studied zoology at Bristol University and have had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. I used to be something of a conservationist, which included planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing buffaloes from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing jobs have also taken me to the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rainforest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Nowadays, I can be found mainly in the attic."
~http://tomjackson.weebly.com/

Reviews

[⋆｡˚☾⋆Mimi｡°✩ Nikolaeva · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[DW · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked this up while killing time in a book store. I've been wanting to educate myself a little more about this topic, but anything written for medical students makes my eyes cross. This book was perfect for me. Each page has a technical but brief summary of one thing (ie an organ, or peristalsis). Because each page is so small, the summary mercifully glosses over many details ("First, a 10-step pathway called glycolysis [...]"). Fascinating facts, no hard thinking required.

My one criticism is that a couple of the illustrations didn't make sense (like telomeres on "Aging"). And the "Migration from Africa" diagram disagrees with the text about when people settled in New Zealand. But these are nitpicks.

I rarely buy physical books anymore, but I'm glad I bought this one.

[Imroze Aslam · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a nice book to understand the basics of human body, which everyone should know. I mostly read about humans in terms of psychology and brain, but I wanted to learn about the rest of the body too, and this book helped. There are around 200 concepts, which not only cover anatomy and physiology, but also behavior, genetics, nutrition and medicine etc. going as far a cyborgs. The title can be a bit misleading. The individual concepts take minutes, but the whole book is around 410 pages and takes considerable time.

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

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