Superhuman: The Awesome Power Within

by Robert Winston and Lori Oliwenstein

The Companion Guide to Superhuman Body Airing Nationwide on The Learning Channel March 27-28 Following on from the enormously successful BBC program, The Human Body, Superhuman explores the body's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789468271
• ISBN13: 9780789468277
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

The Power Within

There's no missing Lori Oliwenstein's delightfully accessible style in this fun and informative book about the wonders of the human body and the amazing challenges it faces in its day-to-day task of staying alive. Great for armchair scientists of any age.

Witty, humorous, and truly human: science at its best.

When I first saw R. Winston, on the BBC TV show, I thought "this guy doesn't look superhuman", at least not in the sense that everyone would give to the word superhuman. And yet, this book - probably more than the tv show - explains precisely why modern Medicine makes us super-beings, not by turning us into some kind of X-men, but rather by using our natural body response to injuries or diseases and by boosting and helping our immune system. This book opened my eyes on this medicine at the opposite of ER tv shows. Great book !