30-Second Anatomy: The 50 Most Important Structures and Systems in the Human Body, Each Explained in Half a Minute

The 50 most important structures and systems in the human body, each explained in half a minute. The bestselling 30-Second series offers a new approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Every title takes a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Each idea, no matter how complex, is explained using a mere two pages, 300 words, and one picture: all easily digested in only half a minute.

30-Second Anatomy offers you an instant diagnosis of how your body works. Whether you're a medical student, an artist, a bodyworker, or simply want to know what your doctor is talking about when he mentions your humerus, this is the quickest way to get under your own skin. Dissecting the workings of everything from your heart to your brain into 30-second summaries, it gives is the quickest way to understand the human structures and systems. Supported by biographies of the pioneers in anatomy studies, its''the book that would have kept Burke and Hare home at night.

© 2013 Ivy Press (Ebook): 9781782400714

Release date

Ebook: 1 July 2013