THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A directory of wonders. Extraordinary stories about the heart, lungs, genitals ... plus some anger and life advice - all delivered in the inimitable Bryson style Gavin Francis Guardian
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Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. Packed with extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, and as compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best.
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'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian
'Jaw-dropping.' - The Times
'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson...an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book.' - The Sunday Times
'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts into an entertaining and nutritious book.' - The Daily Telegraph
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'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.'
Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.
A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this new book is an instant classic. It will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again. (Verlagstext)
'What I learned is that we are infinitely more complex and wondrous, and often more mysterious, than I had ever suspected. There really is no story more amazing than the story of us.' Bill Bryson
Table of Contents:
1 How to Build a Human / 2 The Outside: Skin and Hair / 3 Microbial You / 4 The Brain / 5 The Head / 6 Down the Hatch: The Mouth and Throat / 7 The Heart and Blood / 8 The Chemistry Department / 9 In the Dissecting Room: The Skeleton / 10 On the Move: Bipedalism and Exercise / 11 Equilibrium / 12 The Immune System / 13 Deep Breath: The Lungs and Breathing / 1 4 Food, Glorious Food / 15 The Guts / 16 Sleep / 17 Into the Nether Regions / 18 In the Beginning: Conception and Birth / 19 Nerves and Pain / 20 When Things Go Wrong: Diseases / 21 When Things Go Very Wrong: Cancer / 22 Medicine Good and Bad / 23 The End / / Brief afterword / Notes on sources / Bibliography / Acknowledgements / Index
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Bill Bryson
Jahr:
2020
Verlag:
London, Black Swan
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ISBN:
978-0-552-77990-6
2. ISBN:
0-552-77990-3
Beschreibung:
X, 532 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten : Illustrationen
Schlagwörter:
Anatomie, Körper, Menschlicher Körper, Physiologie, Corpus, Körperfunktion, Mensch / Anatomie, Mensch / Körper, Mensch / Physiologie, Tieranatomie, Tiere / Anatomie
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Sprache:
Englisch
Fußnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 487-504. - Deutsche Ausgabe unter dem Titel: Eine kurze Geschichte des menschlichen Körpers
Mediengruppe:
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