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The Body A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

December 30, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

I started The Body A Guide for Occupants about a year ago; I had kind of a pattern starting the year off with a science book of some sort. This year, I guess I’m also ending with one. This book is on the one hand pretty readable since the science is explained in some detail without getting too technical; my last biology class was well over a decade ago. On the other hand, it’s also incredibly dense, making it sort of hard to read for […]

Filed Under: Health, History Tagged With: Bill Bryson, biology, Medical History, medicine, science, the body a guide for occupants

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:88 · Genres: Health, History · Tags: Bill Bryson, biology, Medical History, medicine, science, the body a guide for occupants ·
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He was a superenthusiast for bleeding.

The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

November 1, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

An entirely unsurprising book, this pop science book is to the human body what Bill Bryson’s earlier book A Short History of Nearly Everything is to scientific discovery. Thoroughly researched, charmingly narrated (both in terms of the prose style and sense of levity the book is written in but also in terms of the audiobook edition that Bryson himself narrates in his confusing and fetching mixed accent). So the book works it’s way through the various parts of the human body discussing form, function, analogies to […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Bill Bryson, the body a guide for occupants

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:602 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Bill Bryson, the body a guide for occupants ·
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