Anatomies by Hugh Aldersey-Williams author of Sunday Times bestseller Periodic Tales is a splendidly entertaining journey through the art science literature & history of the human body. Magnificent inspired. He writes like a latter-day Montaigne. Stimulating scientific hypotheses bold philosophic theories illuminating"ations & curious facts. I recommend it to all". (Telegraph). " Splendid highly entertaining chock-full of insights.. . It inserts fascinating scientific snippets & anecdotes about our organs into the wider history of our changing understanding of our bodies". (Sunday Times). "A relentlessly entertaining cultural history of the human body.. .brims with fascinating details infectious enthusiasm.. .the terrain he covers is so richly brought to life". (Guardian). " Elegant & informative... For Aldersey-Williams [the body] is a thing of wonder & a repository of fascinating facts". (Mail on Sunday). It is the most fraught & fascinating talked-about & taboo unique yet universal aspect of our lives. It is the inspiration for art the subject of science & the source of some of the greatest stories ever told. It is our most intimate ally against the world provider of all pleasurable sensations the repository of all we feel & know. & yet what a source of puzzlement & worry the body is: a home we never chose a facade that we continually disguise a protector that we know will fail us in the end. Until we fall ill most of us take this extraordinarily complicated collection of flesh bones & fluids entirely for granted. But from ancient body art to plastic surgery from early anatomists to conceptual artists grave-robbers to bionic athletes our changing attitudes to the human body
- how it works what it should look like how to live with it what it means
- tell us more about ourselves than almost any other subject in human history. Blending history science art literature & the everyday one of our finest science writers investigates this most marvellous & mysterious of creations. The result is a treasure trove of surprising facts remarkable stories & startling information that encompasses everything from the first finger-printing to the physiology of angels from synaesthesia to the clown-egg register from the death-mask of Isaac Newton to the afterlife of Einstein's brain. Praise for Periodic Tales: " Science writing at its best.. .fascinating & beautiful.. .if only chemistry had been like this at school.. .to meander through the periodic table with him.. .is like going round a zoo with Gerald Durrell.. .a rich compilation of delicious tales but it offers greater rewards too". (Matt Ridley). " Immensely engaging & continually makes one sit up in -surprise". (Sunday Times). " Splendid.. .enjoyable & polished". (Observer). " Full of good stories & he knows how to tell them well.. .an agreeable jumble of anecdote reflection & information". (Sunday Telegraph). " Great fun to read & an endless fund of unlikely & improbable anecdotes.. .sharp & often witty". (Financial Times). Hugh Aldersey-Williams studied natural sciences at Cambridge. He is the author of several books exploring science design & architecture & has curated exhibitions at the Victoria & Albert Museum & the Wellcome Collection. His previous book Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements was a Sunday Times bestseller & has been published in many languages around the world. He lives in Norfolk with his wife & son."

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