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A Guide for Occupants
Bill Bryson: The Body Bill Bryson: The Body

‘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. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.’

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. 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.

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Doubleday, New York City, USA, 2019
448 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 9780857522405
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Doubleday, London, 2019
454 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 9780857522405 · Illusztrálta: Neil Gower

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Most mysterious of all is the chin. The chin is unique to humans, and no one knows why we have one. It doesn’t seem to confer any structural benefit to the head, so it may be simply that we find a good chin dashing.

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And how do we celebrate the glory of our existence? Well, for most of us by eating maximally and exercising minimally. Think of all the junk you throw down your throat and how much of your life is spent sprawled in a near-vegetative state in front of a glowing screen.

Bill Bryson: The Body A Guide for Occupants

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Unlike the rest of the body, the palms don’t sweat in response to physical exertion or heat, but only from stress. Emotional sweating is what is measured in lie detector tests.

Bill Bryson: The Body A Guide for Occupants

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When you take a breath, the nitrogen in the air goes into your lungs and straight back out again, like an absentminded shopper who has wandered into the wrong store.

Bill Bryson: The Body A Guide for Occupants


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