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Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER

Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER

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Bill Bryson's The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a #1 bestseller in both hardback and paperback, shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize. It explores the human body, how it functions, and its remarkable ability to heal itself, filled with extraordinary facts and astonishing stories. It is a brilliant successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, and will have readers marveling at the form they occupy and celebrating the genius of their existence.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 544 pages
Publication date: 23 July 2020
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd

'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.'

Bill Bryson sets off 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 new book is an instant classic. It 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.

There really is no story more amazing than the story of us.' Bill Bryson

 

Weight: 398g
Dimension: 198 x 127 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780552779906

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