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Human Bones: A Scientific and Pictorial Investigation
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 611.71
EAN: 9780131479401
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0131479407
Label: Pi Press
Manufacturer: Pi Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: November 11, 2004
Publisher: Pi Press
Studio: Pi Press
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Editorial Review:
A beautiful book combining knowledge of biomechanics and evolution with a discussion of aesthetics and philosophy of our bones.
Includes 115 color photographs taken over weeks of shooting in the archives of museums, including the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian. Author is the world's foremost authority on biomechanics. Includes interactive, "do-it-yourself" experiments, such as investigating the lubrication of joints in the hand. The world's foremost authority on biomechanics now focuses on our bones in a beautifully illustrated book of color photography combining expert knowledge of biomechanics and evolution with engaging discussion of aesthetics and philosophy concerning our most surprisingly important organ. Nothing seems as lifeless as a bone in a museum case, but the bones in our bodies are as truly alive as our muscles and guts. Alexander visits moments in every age of our lives, showing how bones grow, how they get damaged, and how they vary, as well as revealing how to read the story they tell of where we came from and what we did. Interactive, "do-it-yourself" experiments, such as investigating the lubrication of joints in the hand, are presented so readers can investigate their own skeleton. Aaron Diskin's 115 color photographs are informative works of art taken over weeks of shooting in the archives of museums including the American Museum of Natural History, as well as private collections including Maxilla and Mandible in New York City. Their elegance is revealed, never before as colorfully and dramatically as in the photographs of Aaron Diskin's showcased here.
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Rating: - Human Bones: A Scientific and Pictorial Investigation
This book is interesting to the general public. The text is clear and informative and the pictures are spectacular. Even if you have never thought of bones as beautiful this book will change your perspective.
Lots of fun to read and gorgeous to look at.
Rating: - A brain and eye tease
Beautiful and interesting and actually artistically inspiring as well. A delight for those of us interested in bones.
Rating: - Human Bones by Alexander et al.
This book would be perfect for any student of medicine or science.
It depicts the function and design of bones-throughout the body.
Many important facts about the anatomy of the body are depicted:
- cells repair damaged bone
- the inner ear is the origin of balance
- a child skull is greater than an adult proportionately
- the sacroiliac joints are mostly responsible for back pain
( Between the sacrum and pelvic bones , there are a few
millimeters ... Read More
Rating: - Beautiful bones! Bones with character!
This book is a flip-view of the interior corpus that shook me to my core -- and that's where my bones are. If you were to make a Venn diagram comprising one circle for readers who collect delicate, playful and exquisite photography, and another circle for those with scientific curiosity in regard to our bewitching endoskeleton, this book would represent the intersection. Well done, Mssrs Alexander and Diskin. I anxiously await your next.
Rating: - You'll see human bones in a new way
Do you take your bones for granted? You won't any more, after reading this well-designed book. You'll embark on an extraordinary adventure into the usually invisble land of bones, You'll learn about their useful and asthetically beautiful design, and marvel at the astonishing capacity of each kind of bone to perform its specialized function. R. McNeil Alexander's knowledgeable text and Aaron Diskin's intense, beautiful and alive photographs link us to the ancient past (and to our inevitable futures!) ... Read More
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