This review is on The Muscle Book, which I only came across by chance back just before Christmas. I found it for £7.95 in my local branch of WHSmith, and although the actual price is printed on the outside of the back cover you may be able to find it for ...
Advantages: Clear diagrams of muscles and muscle groups useful for yoga and other body-work users Disadvantages: Simple not too detailed
...A useful and easy to read book on the muscles in the body and their action, by a former ballet dancer and practising osteopath.
I found the black and white diagrams very clear.
There is a page for each of the main muscles, with information in the follow ...
Advantages: very detailed and interesting, good for medical practitioners Disadvantages: can be difficult to understand the medical jargon
...was recommended to me when I went on an open day to Bristol University. The psychology lecturer (as this is the course i want to do) gave us many books to look at but this is the only I remeber because I thought the title was hilarious!
I ask ...
Advantages: Incredibly fascinating Disadvantages: Bring a dictionary for the psychology/neurology terminology!
This is on 'The Man who mistook his wife for a hat'!
I may be bias because Oliver Sacks is my academic idol. I have followed much of his work but nothing compares to this book. As mentioned in another review it is filled with short entries about some o ...
Advantages: All-encompassing, richly detailed, well written Disadvantages: Length might put some people off
...Roy Porter’s monumental work is subtitled ‘A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present.’ The ambition of such a title is immense, but Porter triumphantly meets the challenge with this detailed, comprehensive and highly readable account of ...
