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Anatomies Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Anatomies By Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Anatomies by Hugh Aldersey-Williams


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Anatomies: The Human Body, Its Parts and the Stories They Tell by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

It is the most fraught and fascinating, talked-about and taboo, unique yet universal aspect of our lives. Until we fall ill, most of us take this extraordinarily complicated collection of flesh, bones and fluids entirely for granted. But from ancient body art to plastic surgery, from early anatomists to conceptual artists, grave-robbers to bionic athletes, our changing attitudes to the human body - how it works, what it should look like, how to live with it, what it means - tell us more about ourselves than almost any other subject in human history. Blending history, science, art, literature and the everyday, one of our finest science writers investigates this most marvellous and mysterious of creations. The result is a treasure trove of surprising facts, remarkable stories and startling information that encompasses everything from the first finger-printing to the physiology of angels, from synaesthesia to the clown-egg register, from the death-mask of Isaac Newton to the afterlife of Einstein's brain.

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GOR005073067
9780670920730
0670920738
Anatomies: The Human Body, Its Parts and the Stories They Tell by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Putnam Inc
20130326
320
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