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The Concise Human Body Book: An Illustrated Guide to its Structure, Function, and Disorders
Reveals the complexity of the human body with remarkable clarity. Hundreds of 3D images take you through each of the body's systems, from skeleton and muscles to the skin and nails. Discover how every aspect of the body functions, how the heart beats, how we breathe, and how the body defends itself. Find out what can go wrong, with descriptions of the ways in which common disorders affect the body's systems.
320 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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About the author
Steve Parker
1,344 books86 followersSteve Parker is a British science writer of children's and adult's books. He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150.
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.
Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.
Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.
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November 7, 2019
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.
March 28, 2022
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!
March 26, 2020
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!
November 12, 2025
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.
November 27, 2022
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!
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!
March 18, 2021
5/5 helped me big deal pass my anatomy classes.
April 28, 2022
very easy to read and a great general reference. Recommend to anyone interested in the human body
April 28, 2022
Great Book
Informative in all formats for all ages definitely got me back on the level quickly
Definitely should give this book a try
Informative in all formats for all ages definitely got me back on the level quickly
Definitely should give this book a try
May 18, 2022
Very clear and the illustrations are nice.
December 16, 2025
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.
December 6, 2015
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.
April 2, 2020
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.
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.
June 19, 2011
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
5/5 for me
MJ_Lover xx
August 6, 2016
Great for visual learners, this book is an invaluable "atlas" of the human body and the on-going processes.
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