The Body

A Guide for Occupants

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Beschreibung

<p><b>#1 Bestseller in both hardback and paperback: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE </b><br><b>_______</b><br><br><b>'A directory of wonders.'<i> - The Guardian</i></b><br><b><br>'Jaw-dropping.'<i> - The Times</i></b><br><b><br>'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson...an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book.'<i> - The Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>'</b><b>It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts into an entertaining and nutritious book.</b><b>'</b><i> <b>- The Daily Telegraph</b></i><br><b>_______</b><br><b><br>'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.</b> <b>The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.'</b> <br><br>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 <i>The Body: A Guide for Occupants</i> is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up. <br><br>A wonderful successor to <i>A Short History of Nearly Everything</i>, 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.<br><br><b>'</b><b>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</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780552779913

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

177 x 112 x 40 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

Transworld Publ. Ltd UK