The Human Body Explained: An Owner's Guide to the Incredible Living Maching

by Philip Whitfield

The Human Body Explained makes sense of the intricate workings of the body by focusing not on what the body is, but on what it does. In the book's five chapters - "Support and Movement", "Control and Sensation", "Energy", "Circulation, Maintenance, and Defense", and "Reproduction and Growth" - topics are fully explored in double-page spreads with lavish illustrations and clearly written text that employs comparisons and analogies from everyday life...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805037527
• ISBN13: 9780805037524
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.4" x 10.7"