bill bryson the body a guide for occupants

There really is no story more amazing than the story of us. It will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again.'What I learned is that we are infinitely more complex and wondrous, and often more mysterious, than I had ever suspected. The Body will cure that indifference with generous doses of wondrous, compulsively readable facts and information.

Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.Ī wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this new book is an instant classic. As Bill Bryson writes, We pass our existence within this wobble of flesh and yet take it almost entirely for granted. RT DrDeepakKrishn1: A must buy book for anyone interested in knowing and understanding the human body and its working. This book talks about the human body: its different parts (from our hair(s) to our nervous system, from our heart to our brain, from our immune system to our reproductive one, our cells and so on), how they work and interact with each other, what we use them for. You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design. Bill Bryson is phenomenal at making complex and intricate topics accessible for anyone (including myself). WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD 'Glorious. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.'Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN E.O. '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. Eagerly awaited, must-read new science book from the UKs bestselling non-fiction writer. Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson.an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book.' - The Sunday Times'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts into an entertaining and nutritious book.' - The Daily Telegraph The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a non-fiction book by British-American author Bill Bryson, first published in 2019.

Bill bryson the body a guide for occupants