The Concise Human Body Book: An illustrated guide to its structure, function and disorders

by Steve Parker

Discover all there is to know about human anatomy in DK's latest concise visual guide to the human body. Fully updated to reflect the latest medical information, The Concise Human Body Book is illustrated throughout with colourful and comprehensive diagrams, photographs, scans, and 3D artworks, which take you right into the cells and fibres that are responsible for keeping your body ticking.

The Concise Human Body Book provides full coverage of the body, function by function, system by system. In the opening chapter, colourful medical scans, illustrations, and easy-to-understand diagrams show you how the different parts of the body work together to produce a living whole. Eleven main body systems - including the skeletal system, cardiovascular system, and respiratory system - are then covered in intricate detail in the following chapters, with each section ending on common diseases and disorders that can affect that system.

From bones and muscles to systems and processes, this in-depth, pocket-sized guide to the body's physical structure, chemical workings, and potential problems is the must-have reference manual for trainee medical professionals, students, or anyone interested in finding out more about how the human body works.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Reference, Health, Biology, Medical, Medicine

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Steve Parker is a British science writer known for producing hundreds of children's and adult nonfiction books covering zoology, medicine, evolution, and natural history. Educated at the University of Wales, Bangor, where he earned first class honours in zoology, he later worked at the Natural History Museum and held editorial positions at Dorling Kindersley before becoming a freelance author during the late 1980s. Parker contributed early titles to the acclaimed Eyewitness series and later wrote award-winning books including Science Crazy, Fizzing Physics, The Human Body Book, and Kill or Cure. He has also edited major collaborative works on evolution and medicine, regularly visits schools and libraries, and serves as a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.

Reviews

[Maria Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was just an easy read of the human body. If you are taking a basic biology class or are simply interested in getting to know the human body a bit more in depth this book will be perfect for you. It isn’t hard to understand and things are explained really well. Not much else to say, it’s just an informative book about the human body.

[Etienne · Rating 4 out of 5]

4,5/5. The title says it all! A very nice little atlas of the human body. The good explication and the simple organization made it easy to consult and browse through, I read it cover to cover, but you can easily just search through it for specific information. The graphic and picture, all color, also help greatly to understand and visualize the concept presented. I do think that some part could have go deeper and that author did get very deep into the subject, so that would be the little minus I give it, the different levels of depth from some categories to others. But it did gave me a nice introduction to anatomy and now I want to find more book and continue to study this subject. Nice book for beginners I would say!

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Concise and beautifully illustrated book which covers the basics of the different systems in the human body. I read with the purpose of refreshing on the fundamentals since I finished my biomedical science degree and it certainly helped in keeping my knowledge in check!

[C.A. Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good review of anatomy primarily, with a little bit of physiology and pathology thrown in. It would definitely have been better in physical book format, as it's a textbook, but I read it as an e-book. I've been out of med school for 14 years now, and it's been 17 since I was in anatomy, so good refresher for some of the nuances I don't deal with on a regular basis. If I'd never studied it before, though, this would definitely not be the way I'd have done it.

[David Reaney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Detailed review of the body

I read this a few pages at a time each evening to absorb one area of the body at a time. It presented things about growth and function that helped me understand things, like puberty and aging (for example wrinkled skin) that I never really thought about. Learned a bunch of little things!

[Al · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5 helped me big deal pass my anatomy classes.

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

very easy to read and a great general reference. Recommend to anyone interested in the human body

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Book

Informative in all formats for all ages definitely got me back on the level quickly
Definitely should give this book a try

[Grace Cho · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very clear and the illustrations are nice.

[Frank · Rating 4 out of 5]

The diagrams in this book are excellent. Very clear and visually engaging. It's great for any high-school student or just a neat reference book for the common person to have around.

[Mao Mao · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite part about this book is the part about diseases, especially the part of diseases about reproduction and birth. I learn that the disgusting, brown things in the uterus are called fibroids. Sometimes the embryo settles and develops on the fallopian tube. When the embryo gets bit, the fallopian tube explodes and kills the mother and baby. Sometime the father's sperm and the mother's antibodies go together to meet the egg, but the antibodies attack the sperm, so that would be a low sperm count. As a result, it would be hard to fertilize the egg. I also learn that at first the head is huge for the embryo. But then the embryo grows more like an adult.

[Daniel · Rating 3 out of 5]

The illustrations were amazing. The human body is so complicated. Its amazing. This book me though every part of the body. There is so much to remember. I wonder if anyone person can remember everything about the body. I know I have not been able to. Maybe I should read Rememeber it over again.
Biology is hard for me. I want to learn it. So I hope to learn more books about the human body. If I read enough books about it I am bound to remember. I am glad I read the concise human body book. I only wish I remember more of what I read. They is so much to remember about the human body as I said above.

[girlpower12121 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book! I learnt heaps whilst reading this! Im so very glad my mother bought it for me!


5/5 for me

MJ_Lover xx

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great for visual learners, this book is an invaluable "atlas" of the human body and the on-going processes.

[Aidan 18 · Rating 5 out of 5]

great book for learning the fundamentals of the human body.