To help you find your footing, here’s a glimpse of many of his most popular books, each of which is available in Blinkist’s library. If you’ve yet to discover the passion, humor, and enthusiasm with which Bill Bryson explores his topics, you’re in for a treat. His latest work, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, hit shelves this past October, and in addition to becoming an instant New York Times bestseller, the Washington Post also hailed it as one of the year’s most notable nonfiction books. Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants 6 likes Like We have body clocks not just in the brain but all overin our pancreas, liver, heart, kidneys, fatty tissue, muscle, virtually everywhereand these operate to their own timetables, dictating when hormones are released or organs are busiest or most relaxed. From the 25 feet of hair you will grow in a lifetime to the 31,700 quarts of saliva you will secrete, the human body is extremely busy. Bryson also discusses the flu vaccine, what's in it, and why it has such a low-efficie. Bill Brysons book 'The Body: A Guide For Occupants' is a tour of the fascinating and bizarre ways the human body functions, beginning with the brain and ending with the toes.

Among today’s most prolific nonfiction authors, Bryson has penned more than 20 books about language, science, history, and his adventures traveling the globe.įueled by his insatiable curiosity, Bryson’s books are a testament to his love for knowledge and his ability to distill even the most complex topics into simple explanations anyone can understand. Bryson’s The Body is a directory of such wonders, a tour of the minuscule it aims to do for the human body what his A Short History of Nearly Everything did for science. Bryson specifically looks at diseases like typhoid, typhus, smallpox, and tuberculosis, and calls out some little known viruses that could have a major impact should they ever become widespread.

If you’ve read any amount nonfiction over the past 30 years, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with Bill Bryson.

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