By Bill Bryson
Doubleday Book, 2019. 450 pages. Nonfiction
This book walks the reader through each system in the human body, noting how it functions and recounting short histories of how discoveries were made in that particular area. Bryson is well-known for taking nonfiction subjects and making them both understandable and entertaining, and this book didn't disappoint, in fact it might be one of his best.
Some aspects of anatomy, biology, and medicine can be dry or difficult to understand, but Bryson successfully repackages them into basic but compelling understandings of how the human body works and how many medical breakthroughs have been discovered. One gains a deeper appreciation of our amazing bodies while reading, as well as a deeper desire to care for them as they care so well for us, to ensure we have a little more time with them comfortably while we are here on this earth.
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By Mary Roach
Norton & Company, 2013. 336 pages. Nonfiction
The humor scientist behind Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife takes a tour of the human digestive system, explaining why the stomach doesn't digest itself and whether constipation can kill you.
By Dean Burnett
Norton & Company, 2016. 336 pages. Nonfiction
A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from
neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett.
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