| Title | : | How the Body Works |
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| ISBN | : | 146542993X |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781465429933 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 |
| Publication | : | First published May 3, 2016 |
If you've ever searched the Internet for information on that odd rash on your arm, advice to help you get the best night's sleep, or tips for staying healthy during cold and flu season, you know there is skill to sorting fiction from scientific fact.
How the Body Works uses clear, easy-to-understand graphics and illustrations to demystify all the complex processes that keep our bodies alive and thriving - from the basic building blocks of the body - our cells - to skin, muscles, and bones and the ways in which our many parts work together.
Learn about the senses, how we read faces and body language, nutrition and immunity, the brain, sleep, memory, dreams, and much more. Each chapter takes you through a new body system and includes surprising facts like "there are no muscles in the fingers and toes" and "by the time you finish reading this sentence, 50 million of your cells will have died and been replaced."
With How the Body Works, you'll understand the how and why as well as be wowed by the astonishing ways our bodies work.
How the Body Works Reviews
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This Is The Real Deal
DK, which I recognized mostly from their Eyewitness Travel Guides, has begun to release a wide ranging selection of non-fiction books aimed mostly at younger to middle grade readers. So you've got ocean animal facts, general wildlife animal facts, bird books, history, natural history, cars and trains, space, geography, gems and minerals, and a whole host of other science guides. The reading levels vary, even within topics, from early readers through to more advanced readers. (There's even a separate series called "Big Ideas Simply Explained" which tries to present refreshers on a single topic, such as literature or world history, and which scales up to an adult readership.)
This book, though, struck me as unique because of its length and its high level of detail and complexity. This is not just some food-goes-in, food-goes-out body book, and it's certainly not a jokey Dummies style book. This is much closer to a text book, (actually a fairly advanced text book), if text books were loaded with high quality graphics and were aimed just a bit to the chatty side of the spectrum.
We cover cell structures and DNA, skeleton, muscles, nerves, circulatory and respiratory systems, sensory function, digestion, fitness and health, hormones and body chemistry, reproduction, and brain function. That's the general outline, anyway. Since everything's interrelated an effort is made to treat the body as a single integrated system, just viewed from different perspectives.
As you might expect, each topic starts off at a basic general level and then is developed in greater detail. There is running text that takes up maybe a quarter to a third of each page. Sidebars and factoid captions are superimposed over a wide range of detailed colorful graphics that otherwide fill the pages. So what you get isn't a text book and isn't an encyclopedia, but is more like a grown up and detailed picture book with high quality graphics. That makes the whole book feel like a little bit of a jumble, but also adds energy and enhances browsability.
The upshot for me was that this was interesting, educational, readable and attractive. For high schoolers all the way up to adults who might want to refresh their anatomy knowledge, and even for ambitious middle schoolers with an interest in the subject, this struck me as a solid and valuable resource.
(Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book in exchange for a candid review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.) -
The human body is a fascinating machine. DK does a good job of explaining it all through good illustrations and simple explanations.
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What I like about DK publishings is that the books they produce are very rich in images. This book was no exception.
You have it very easy to remember what you have learned because of those images. Memory champions use image and picture strategy to have a better retention and faster and more efficient recalling of memories.
How the body works, explains briefly how we come to be, and how we function as human beings. From dna and cells, to organs and bodies.
The important thing is, that its information is cutting-edge, newest theories and advancements are put on this book.
This book feels like eating snack, you always grab a good piece of information here and there and it feels like ‘eating it’. Delicious.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is curious about our body, what our organs do, their importance and their diseases. -
Fun and comprehensive.
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As entertaining as it is informative, and leaves nothing out.
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A nice, basic start for children and adults when it comes to how the body functions.
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This is a coffee table book that covers human biology, mostly at a middle school level. Every page is filled with colorful graphics. The sections in this book focus on cells, skin and bones, muscles, senses, the cardiovascular system, the digestive system, the immune system, hormones, the life cycle, and psychology.
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Considering this is not a piece of fiction, I can't really critique it.
This book was a beautiful book filled with facts, fun and lots of diagrams! A brilliant introduction to the body and all the weird and wonderful things it does.
Love Lucy x -
Sách dày, giấy tốt, in màu toàn bộ, được đóng cuốn chắc chắn. Cung cấp nhiều thông tin cực kỳ hữu ích và chính xác về cơ thể người với nhiều hình ảnh minh họa sinh động, trực quan sắc nét. Là cuốn sách cần có trong tủ sách mỗi gia đình.
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Sería ingrato de mi parte calificarlo con menos. Me apoyo mucho en él para entender en un nivel básico e introductorio contenido más complejo de Anatomía, Bioquímica y Nutrición. Naturalmente no me da toda la información necesaria, pero logran hacer el contenido atractivo y detallado.
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It's one of the most beautiful books I've ever seen
Imagine to have it in your shelf....
I enjoyed studying from this book it's colorful eye-catching and really rich of information
My eyes are pleased -
I think this book is wonderful as it talks about and explains to the reader more about what goes on in the human body.
I also find it easy that people know how their body works after reading this book, such as such a know how hunger, thirst and how the brain works too. -
DK never disappoints me! This is a must-have for every child and for the rest of us! Colorful, informative! I loved it!!
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A detailed refresher for those of us who've figured out that we learn visually. More accessible than most textbooks with just about as much information. Well done, DK.
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P. 16
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This is a very good source of information too.
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I learned a lot from this book, and I enjoyed it.
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good anatomy intro with lots of graphics
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Apart from a few generalisations, this is a perfect visually stunning guide on everything in our bodies and minds. Awesome!
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7.2022, cùng với Cẩm Nhung, nhà sách Hải An
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Beautifully made book and I learned a lot about the human body. Sometimes a bit too much scientific language that went right over my head.
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visually informative but not boring.
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Tổng hợp SGK sinh học nhưng màu sắc hơn.
