Guide to the Human Body

Revealed in fantastic computer-enhanced three-dimensional pictures, the complex internal world of the human body is explored in DK Guide to the Human Body. In different sections of the book, the ingenious processes involved in moving, breathing, digesting food, producing babies, growing, and fighting off disease are explained in clear, lively text. The elaborate network of nerves that reach to the body’s furthermost extremities and carry messages to and from the brain is explored in fascinating detail.With page after page of ground-breaking imaging techniques in DK Guide to the Human Body, the layers of skin, muscles, bones, and other organs can be explored as they never have been before. Fantastic close-up photography shows the very cells that give our bodies substance and together make it run like a well-oiled and highly sophisticated machine.