ANATOMIES

Anatomies by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of Sunday Times bestseller Periodic Tales, is a splendidly entertaining journey through the art, science, literature and history of the human body.It is the most fraught and fascinating, talked-about and taboo, unique ye t universal aspect of our lives. It is the inspiration for art, the subject of science and the source of some of the greatest storie s ever told. It is our most intimate ally against the world, provider of all pleasurable sensations, the repository of all we feel a nd know.