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I really enjoyed reading this one .a very interesting collection of biology essays I thought .This was well written and the research was very good
.I would recommend this one if you have an interest in biology or even if you don’t still give it a read you might find something here that you enjoy

This is a book supposedly about the science of the human body, but it is indeed much more. I was attracted to this title by some of the chapter headings: “What’s it like to be struck by lightning?” “How to fall to your death and live to tell the tale?” (What can I say? As a crime fiction writer, I’m attracted to the morbid).

Reading the book though, it quickly transpires that while the chapters answer the questions posed, they do so in a roundabout way that encompasses the science of the subject they’re examining. Take the chapter “How to fall to your death and live to tell the tale?” This becomes a fascinating examination of balance, how humans walk, what causes someone to fall or trip over, how science and technology are attempting to mitigate falls in the care of the elderly and more.

Each chapter contains a fascinating wealth of information and so answers more than the question it sets out to do. This book is another popular science book that’s well worth a read.

This was a interesting collection of seventeen essays on different aspects of biology, it's one of these books where you just pick page not have to read fort to back. All the essay where well written and researched, one my favourite essays was on 'What’s it like to be struck by lightning? '

If you or someone you know has a interested in science or even a interested interesting facts this book definitely a book for you and them.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Bodyology. This is a collection of seventeen scientific essays on different aspects of biology. Every essay was well written and researched and even the subjects that I didn't think I was interested in sucked me right in after a paragraph.

The best thing about the book is how much it has made me think. Some subjects clarified and gave examples of things I already knew. A couple turned what I thought I knew upside down. Others introduced completely new concepts to me and sent me scurrying off to Google to look more deeply. And I studied Human Biology at university. The essays vary in the amount of hard science versus the human aspect, but all are enjoyable and thought-provoking. More please.

Enjoyable, well-written anthology

I enjoyed this book, an anthology of stories originally published online. As an anthology, however, there was no overriding theme to the stories aside from them all being about the body. One thing that all the stories did have in common was that they were all well written and interesting. I did find however, that a couple of the stories (meditation and bee venom for Lyme disease) strayed away from science and into speculation. This was not bothersome enough to reduce my rating from 5 stars. There was also an element of history to the stories, which I liked. I recommend this book for anyone interested in science.