Brain and Nerves (Look at Your Body) - Hardcover

Parker, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761308121 ISBN 13: 9780761308126

Publisher: Copper Beech Books, 1998

Synopsis

Looks at how the human brain works, including memory and learning as well as brain and nerve diseases

About this title

About the Author:

Steve Parker, ia an award-winning writer who worked for the Natural History Museum. He has written over 100 books, mostly for younger readers, on science, technology, machines and human biology. He regularly gives talks and workshops in schools and libraries.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-6-In his now familiar and recognizable style, Parker turns his attention to the nervous system, explaining the structure and physiology of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. Also addressed are the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems, reflexes, memory, and some related disorders such as migraine headaches and meningitis. The writing is simple but well organized and complete. The full-color photographs, some with superimposed drawings of nerves or lobes of the brain, are clear and most expand on the text, including a few PET scans, which detect brain activity using a radioactive dye. Others, such as those of houses and ravioli (as examples of memories) and of a chameleon and basketball players in wheelchairs serve primarily as fillers. Still, this is a useful overview of the topic.
Christine A. Moesch, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, NY
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Copper Beech Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0761308121
• ISBN 13: 9780761308126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 31
• Illustrator: Thompson Ian