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The Human Brain Book (2009)

by Rita Carter(Favorite Author)

4.31 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0756654416 (ISBN13: 9780756654412)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

review 1: Visually this is a stunning book, coffee table size with beautiful glossy double page spreads of diagrams, photographs and scans. The text on each page is learned and accessible and this would be a good book for kids, the information bites are fairly small. But despite its beauty I feel there is something lacking. Many of the photographs of people are of the kind you find on clipart sites illustrating an emotion and don't really serve any purpose, they feel very pat. The structure of the book is such that you can dip in and out of any spread, so there is no linear narrative, even the history of knowlege on the first pages jumps around and is difficult to follow. A little too slick
review 2: RE: _The Human Brain Book_I've always loved reading about the brain... more and how it works, provided the material isn't too technical.This book has many diagrams of the brain showing the different areas in detail. Although that can be interesting, as a lay person I browsed through the book for parts which I might understand easily. The book has many different ways of presenting material. So it's good for browsing.Even though this book gets very technical, there was enough there for a lay person like myself to hold my interest. For example, I believe it was in this book that I read that as we age our bodies produce less serotonin and therefore we find ourselves less stimulated by things which used to stimulate us... or something like that. It was little facts like that which held my interest. less

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