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Living With A Stranger: A Discourse on the Human Body
Living With A Stranger A Discourse on the Human Body Author:John Stewart Collis "I live with this body of mine, and yet for all I know I might be living with a stranger." so John Stewart Collis, whose books on natural phenomena have become classics, set out to explore the mysterious workings of the human body and to uncover that sense of miraculous which, in the course of everyday life, has for too many people become obscu... more »red. He presents a remarkable and joyous picture of "the bit of earth we call ourselves" by interweaving the poetic and scientific. And by appealing to our sense of wonder, he clarifies our understanding of being alive. "Collis's book celebrates anatomy by making each facet of it luminous, accessible."--Boston Globe "This is no ponderous medical tome crammed with intimidating words or illustrations, but rather a near-poetic celebration of the body, written by a man who obviously loves languages and knows how to use it very well...This is a remarkable book."--Associated Press. John Stewart Collis, British author of over 18 books, has been a University lecturer in English literature at Cambridge and London Universities. Author of at least 18 other books, including Shaw, Farewell to Argument, Leo Tolstoy, An Irishman's England, Forward to Nature, The Sounding Cataract, An Artist of Life, Marriage and Genius, The Carlyles, Bound Upon a Course, Christopher Columbus, While Following the Plough, The Triumph of the Tree, The Moving Waters, Paths of Light, The Vision of Glory, and The Worm Forgives the Plough, for his book Down to Earth, he received the Heinemann Foundation Award for Literature. The ISBN in the both the verso of the title page and the back cover, 0807609129, is declared a hardcover in the PBS system. However, this is a tradebound edition--paper, not board!« less