the body a guide for occupants by bill bryson

Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this book will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again. 'What I learned is that we are infinitely more complex and wondrous, and often more mysterious, than I had ever suspected.Book Summary :In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself.

It will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.Ī wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this new book is an instant classic. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. The Body: A Guide for Occupants Hardcover Octoby Bill Bryson (Author) 17,996 ratings Editors pick Best History See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 15.56 Other new, used and collectible from 3.

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER_'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian'Jaw-dropping.' - The Times'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson.an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book.' - The Sunday Times'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts into an entertaining and nutritious book.' - The Daily Telegraph_'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. Bryson employs the example of an obliging Benedict Cumberbatch, of medium height and build and good health, to venture that the real cost of a human is a very precise 151,578.46, a figure that turns out to wiggle and wobble as we layer on additional costs. The Body: a Guide for Occupants Bill Bryson € 14.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 2-3 working days.

The body a guide for occupants by bill bryson