Bryson’s tone is both informative and inviting, encouraging the reader, throughout this exemplary work, to share the sense of wonder he expresses at how the body is constituted and what it is capable of. Tracing the beginnings of the modern understanding of the human body, Bryson introduces his audience to such foundational figures as Henry Gray, whose book Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical (better known as Gray’s Anatomy) has taught generations of medical students since its first publication in 1858, and Wilbur Olin Atwater, a chemist whose 1898 The Chemical Composition of American Food Materials “remained the last word on diet and nutrition for a generation.” Bryson also describes the often bewildering mystery of diseases, the science of pain, and the advances made in medical treatment, all with care and concern. This item: The Body: A Guide for Occupants 4150 + A Short History of Nearly Everything 5108 + At Home: A Short History of Private Life 11115 Total Price: Add all three to Cart Some of these items dispatch sooner than the others. After a brief introduction, the book divides itself into several chapters, each of which describes a. It is Bryson's second book of popular science, with the first being A Short History of Nearly Everything published in 2003. Through anecdotes about scientific history and startling facts that seem too extraordinary to be true-the DNA in one person, if stretched out, would measure billions of miles and reach beyond Pluto-Bryson draws the reader into his subject. It explores the various organ systemsskin, brain, eyes, nose, mouth and throat, heart and blood, skeleton, lungs, digestive tractas well as multisystem experiences like digestion and energy production, immunity and disease, sleep, sex, childbirth, old age, and death. The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a non-fiction book by British-American author Bill Bryson, first published in 2019. Bryson ( The Road to Little Dribbling), known for his travel narratives and, more recently, popular scientific works, turns his humorous and curious eye to the human body.

The body guide for occupants