City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Secrets of the human body, Chris van Tulleken, Xand van Tulleken & Andrew Cohen

eng

plateschartsmapsillustrations

index present

non fiction

Secrets of the human body

Chris van Tulleken, Xand van Tulleken & Andrew Cohen

206 bones. One heart. Two eyes. Ten fingers. What makes tears of joy different from tears of sadness? Why is a gut feeling so much smarter than you think? And why is 90% of you not even human? You may think you know the human body - heart, lungs, brain and bones - but our bodies are full of extraordinary mysteries that science is only just beginning to understand. This book will forever change how we think about our bodies. Thanks to cutting-edge science and cutting-edge technology, we get a tantalizing glimpse beneath our skin and there we see the secrets that make every ordinary human body extraordinary

adult