基本信息出版社：Kingfisher Books Ltd
页码：40 页
出版日期：2004年10月
ISBN：0753409666
条形码：9780753409664
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Bodyscope
外文书名：身体范围系列: 身体活动与姿态的机能

内容简介 The most astonishing and complex organism on earth - the human body - is explored in this dynamic new series. A dazzling array of specialist photography and state-of-the-art digital illustration reveals the secrets of human biology in breathtaking detail. Incorporating the very latest medical research, this groundbreaking series provides a compelling guide to what makes us work, from our heartbeat to brain cells. Feature spreads take an in-depth look at a wide range of subjects, including the invisible creatures that set up home on our skin and the amazing scanning techniques doctors use to peer inside the body. Rounding off each book is a comprehensive glossary, together with key website links. For anyone who has ever marvelled at the intricacies and workings of the human body, Bodyscope is an indispensable series. Bones, muscles and joints give the human body shape and structure. They also enable us to perform a wide range of movements, from smiling (which involves 17 facial muscles) to dancing (which requires over 100 muscles, bones and joints to work together). Bodyscope - Movers and Shapers peels away our outer layers and reveals how the musculo-skeletal system works so efficiently and effectively. This fundamental system operates across all areas of the body and these are explored in turn. Along the way, the reader is shown how limbs move, why exercise is vital to keep our muscles and joints in good working order, and how bones heal themselves.
专业书评 From Booklist
Reviewed with Patricia Macnair's Life Cycle.

Gr. 3-5. This first pair of entries in the new Bodyscope series are by a British medical doctor with a flair for kid-friendly trivia (the butt muscle is one of the body's strongest). Macnair is equally adept at describing complex processes for young readers without too much distracting detail. Life Cycle gets the awkward specifics of sexual intercourse out of the way with a single dispassionate sentence ("The man puts his penis in the woman's vagina"), and then engagingly traces the path of human development from egg to embryo, infant to aging adult. Although it covers a less dramatic topic, Movers and Shapers aligns well with elementary-school anatomy curricula and underscores the importance of physical fitness. Both books are organized and densely illustrated in the style of DK's Eyewitness books, but Life Cycle's luminous X-ray images of fetuses in utero make it the more visually striking of the two. A nicely annotated list of Web sites, a somewhat spotty glossary (why define testes but not scrotum or prostate?), and a comprehensive index conclude. Jennifer Mattson
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