Bones, 9780393868258
Paperback
Bones: Strong, self-healing, historical, and inspiring, our essential framework revealed.

Bones

inside and out

$27.20

  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    25 November 2021

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Summary

The Marvelous World Within: A Journey Through Bone

Human bone is a versatile and unique material: it repairs itself without scarring, it’s lightweight yet responsive to stresses, and it’s durable enough to survive for millennia. In Bones, orthopedic surgeon Roy A. Meals explores and extols this amazing substance that both supports and records vertebrate life.

Inside the body, bone proves itself the world’s best building material. Meals examines the biological makeup…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780393868258
ISBN-10:0393868257
Author:Roy A. Meals
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Imprint:WW Norton & Co
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:25 November 2021
Weight:236g
Dimensions:211mm x 140mm x 20mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Wide-ranging, deeply researched, and entertaining, Bones is a highly accessible examination of a complex topic. Roy A. Meals has a real knack for explaining complicated phenomena like bone growth, fractures, and healing in an imaginative, jargon-free manner. A must-read for anyone with a backbone.–Bill Schutt, author of Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

About The Author

Roy A. Meals

Roy A. Meals, MD, is a clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at UCLA and the author of Bones: Inside and Out, a Barnes & Noble Best Science Book of 2020. The author of several medical books, he has practiced, researched, and taught hand surgery for forty years. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

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