The Human Body - by Robert Snedden (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Discover the incredible capabilities of the human body and its functions with this indispensable hardback guide, richly illustrated in full-color. The human body is a remarkable work of nature - its immense complexity allowing us to sense the world around us, move, regulate our temperature, formulate thoughts and much more besides. In this stunning visual guide, author Robert Snedden examines the extraordinary ways that the body works and facilitates our survival. Taking each crucial system in turn, he unpacks the processes responsible for the functioning of biology's most complex creation and makes it easy to understand for every reader. Discover the function of cells, how muscles work, how our senses allow us to perceive the world, and much more. With hundreds of photographs, illustrations and full-color diagrams to aid your understanding, The Human Body is a must-have manual for medical professionals, students, or anyone interested in finding out more about how the human body works." -- ONIX annotation.

Book Synopsis

Discover the incredible capabilities of the human body and its functions with this indispensable hardback guide, richly illustrated in full-color.

The human body is a remarkable work of nature - its immense complexity allowing us to sense the world around us, move, regulate our temperature, formulate thoughts and much more besides.

In this stunning visual guide, author Robert Snedden examines the extraordinary ways that the body works and facilitates our survival. Taking each crucial system in turn, he unpacks the processes responsible for the functioning of biology's most complex creation and makes it easy to understand for every reader. Discover the function of cells, how muscles work, how our senses allow us to perceive the world, and much more.

With hundreds of photographs, illustrations and full-color diagrams to aid your understanding, The Human Body is a must-have manual for medical professionals, students, or anyone interested in finding out more about how the human body works.

About the Author

Robert Snedden has worked in publishing for more than forty years as an editor and writer. His writing ranges across diverse topics as medical ethics, habitats, physics and engineering, pharmacogenetics, chemistry and the technology of ancient civilizations. He has written many successful titles such as the Great Breakthroughs series and 15-Minute Einstein, which have been published internationally in many languages.