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 Body: An Amazing Tour of Human Anatomy - Robert Winston
 Body: An Amazing Tour of Human Anatomy - Robert Winston ... author and TV presenter. From how your blood flows through the heart to how your food is digested, take a trip through your very own body and be astounded by its inner workings. A free interactive CD shows the body and it's movements in 3D detail and acetate pages fold back to reveal how our most important organs work. An irresistibly graphic, top-to-toe body atlas.Newest Review: ... of it, but this book helped me really appreciate the level of complexity various body parts (which we take for granted) ... more ... actually have. It is written in a plain, matter of fact style that makes it easy to understand but in no way does it “dumb down” and it doesn’t shy away from medical terminology. I don’t think this would really be a problem for the novice though as you can actually see what the terminology refers to.
On some of the pictures there are overlays that, for example, show the circulatory system around the heart or describe the digestive system, showing the route food takes and what happens to it at each stage. It also gives t...more |
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Pages: 96, Hardcover, Dorling Kindersley Last Update 25.11.2009 05:47
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Body: An Amazing Tour of Human Anatomy - Robert Winston: How's your BODY looking these days?!? (1359 words)
by - written on 30/03/07 (Very useful, 591 readings)
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“BODY” - subtitled “An amazing tour of Human Anatomy” is a real gem of a book that explores the wonders of the human body. I’d never heard of it before, but when I saw it with its cover featuring and inside view of a head my curiosity was piqued, and when I delved into the book a little it looked absolutely fascinating. Written by Richard Walker with Robert Winston acting as Editorial Consultant, this is an incredible book that is both informative and visually stunning. It uses vivid 3D visualisations of the body – made from computer reconstructions of photographs taken of 1mm slices of a frozen dead body (donated to science). The book gives a reasonable amount of ... Read the complete review
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