A Glimpse Of The Human Body: The Structure and Functions
Book Specification
Item Code: | IDF654 |
Author: | Shirley Telles |
Publisher: | SWAMI VIVEKANANDA YOGA PRAKASHANA |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 2018 |
ISBN: | 8187313056 |
Pages: | 131 (B & W Figures: 57) |
Cover: | Paperback |
Other Details | 8.0" X 5.9" |
Weight | 160 gm |
Book Description
This book gives a compact vision about the structure and function of the human body in its most basic form. The complex structure and its myrid functions have been lucidly delineated by Dr. Shirley, an eminent Neurophysiologist. She has made a successful attempt in taking through this interesting sajourn of human biology. She has initiated the travel through a window into the structure and functional organization of biological unit and takes one through various systems skeletal system to reproductive system. She has used simple language with straight forward disposition of the facts, making the whole reading informative and pleasurable while doing so she also keeps the subject interesting and thought provoking.
I am sure that this short treatise certainly gives the glimpse of the Human body to those who are not student of human biology, but intending to take a travel through this complex make of Human biology.
1. | Introduction | 1 |
2. | Why we behave the way we do and How much we can change | 10 |
3. | The Skeletal System | 17 |
4. | The Blood | 31 |
5. | The Circulatory System | 38 |
6. | The Respiratory System | 48 |
7. | Nutrition | 58 |
8. | The Digestive System | 66 |
9. | The Excretory System | 76 |
10. | The Brain-An enchanted Loom | 86 |
11. | Physiology of Stress | 98 |
12. | The Mechanisms of Defense | 101 |
13. | The Endocrine System | 107 |
14. | Senses and Sense Organs | 118 |
15. | The Reproductive System | 124 |
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