"In this book, science writer Han Yu gives an informative, entertaining, unexpected, and at times humorous examination of the human knee, taking readers on a journey of science, culture, and history. Readers will gain an appreciation for the intricate anatomy of the knee, the reasons it hurts, and the purported remedies. The goal is not to provide a comprehensive list of anatomic features, pathologies, or therapies-this not being a medical textbook...

"This visually striking guide takes a fresh approach to drawing the human body. A combination of innovative photography and drawings, practical life-drawing lessons, and in-depth explorations of the body's surface and underlying structure are used to reveal and celebrate the human form." --

Belinda Bauer is a phenomenal voice in British crime fiction, whose work has won the CWA's Gold Dagger Award for Crime Novel of the Year and garnered rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Rubbernecker is a gripping thriller about a medical student who begins to suspect that something strange is going on in this cadaver lab. "The dead can't speak to us," Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. The body Patrick Fort is examining in anatomy...

"We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often--two hundred times more often than a dog? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? Why is the vast majority of our genetic code pointless? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there's been some kind of mistake....