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The Human Body Book by Richard Walker and Steve Parker is an engaging and comprehensive guide that explores the intricacies of human anatomy and physiology. Richly illustrated, it delves into the structure, function, and development of the body, providing insights into how various systems work together to keep us functioning daily. This educational resource is perfect for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the miraculous workings of the human body.
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You might enjoy this captivating exploration if you're fascinated by the intricacies of human anatomy and physiology. With detailed illustrations and engaging explanations, it provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the human body, making it perfect for both students and enthusiasts of biology.

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Comprehensive guide to the human body, now updated to reflect the latest medical advances.

An all-in-one visual guide to human anatomy with encyclopedic coverage from bones and muscles to systems and processes. This in-depth manual to the human body's physical structure, chemical workings, and potential problems is a must-have reference to help further your studies or knowledge of how our bodies work.

Each page of The Human Body Book, updated to reflect the latest medical information, is illustrated with colourful and comprehensive diagrams, which are thoroughly annotated to take you right into the cells and fibres that are responsible for keeping the human body ticking.

The opening chapter, Integrated Body, explains how the parts of the body work together at various levels of size and hierarchy to produce the living whole. It also contains an overview of the major body systems, enlivened by real-life 3D medical scans of the entire body.

The chapters that follow provide coverage of the body function by function, system by system. Eleven main body systems are covered in turn, with each section ending on common injuries, diseases, and disorders afflicting that system. The book concludes with a chapter on Growth and Development which looks in detail at how the body changes over the course of a human lifespan.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241363614

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 March 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: DK

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly, Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 220.0mm

Height: 262.0mm

Weight: 1263g

Pages: 288

About the Author

STEVE PARKER graduated with a BSc (Honours, First Class) in Zoology and is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. He has written more than 200 books and edited or contributed to over 100 more, including The Human Body Body Atlas and Eyewitness Medicine. He has been Shortlisted for the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book of the Year and Times Educational Supplement Information Book of the Year. ROBERT WINSTON is a world-famous fertility expert and is Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London. He has written many books, and presented many television programmes for the BBC, including the award-winning The Human Body.

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