Understanding Your Muscles & Bones

From heartbeats to hip joints, this entertaining book gets under our skin and shows how our muscles and bones work. With lots of pictures and diagrams, it shows what bones are made of, how the skeleton fits together and the muscles that make it move. It describes how specialized muscles such as the heart and the eye work, and the muscles that we use to speak. Sections on growth, diseases, strength and sports, fossils and what happens when bones break complete this very readable and informative book. Paperback.