The Complete Idiot's Guide to Anatomy and Physiology (The Complete Idiot's Guide)
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By: Michael J. Veiera Lazaroff
Format: Paperback
From: Alpha
Pub. Date: April 2004
From: Alpha
Pub. Date: April 2004
Product Details:
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2004-05-04
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 432
Ean: 9781592572038
Isbn: 1592572030
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2004-05-04
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 432
Ean: 9781592572038
Isbn: 1592572030
ABOUT THE BOOK
EDITORIAL REVIEW
The essential handbook for healthcare workers.
Anatomy and physiology students require more than a passing grade, and have to retain what they learn as they pursue a career in the healthcare industry. With that in mind, this guide takes a fresh approach to the study of the human body and its functions, placing its emphasis on the connections between the body's systems as opposed to covering them each in isolation. With this book, students will actually learn anatomy and physiology rather than just memorize the facts.
Anatomy and physiology students require more than a passing grade, and have to retain what they learn as they pursue a career in the healthcare industry. With that in mind, this guide takes a fresh approach to the study of the human body and its functions, placing its emphasis on the connections between the body's systems as opposed to covering them each in isolation. With this book, students will actually learn anatomy and physiology rather than just memorize the facts.
USER REVIEWS
"Fantastic Product. I am studying Anatomy & Physiology, and have the technical references, however, this book puts complex things into simple analogies and terms.
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~ Written on 2008-09-23
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~ Written on 2008-09-23
"It was pretty informative, probably not exactly what I was looking for but it certainly helps. "
~ Written on 2007-10-02
~ Written on 2007-10-02
"I don't think this book was ever made to replace your A&P text book. I'm in my second week of A&P and realized that I just couldn't fully grasp the concepts in my text book. So I bought this book to use as a companion to the text. What I personally do is read through the section in my text book, find it's equivalence in the complete idiot's guide, then connect the dots, then refer back to my text book's images for some supporting detail. This process has worked tremendously well for me! I'm giving it 4 stars because I've found a few errors in the book. Especially in the diagrams. For instance it labled cuboidal cells as squamous cells. Uhhh that's just plain wrong and misleading. So definitely read the text first and then focus the details with this lovely little thing. I love the way the author writes too. It makes me laugh out loud sometimes."
~ Written on 2006-09-06
~ Written on 2006-09-06
"If you are looking for a book to help you out with physio, I recommend buying "The Physiology Coloring Book" (Kapit/Macey/Meisami). Lazaroff's book has several mistakes, and unlike the Coloring Book, it lacks the important details. "
~ Written on 2006-06-24
~ Written on 2006-06-24
"Save your money. Whether you are an interested layman looking for an intro and overview, or you are a struggling A&P student looking for a map to find your way through the forest, you will probably find this book frustrating. I have had pretty good luck with other Idiot's Guides, but not this one.
This could have been a pretty good book. With some better editing and some better graphic design it would have been alright. The concept is a good one, create an easy reading A&P guide by eliminating (or at least explaining) most of the arcane terminology and massive tables of body parts that A&P students have to memorize, reduce the body systems to simple schematics, focusing on critical cycles and relationships between systems, and present it all in a breezy, fun style.
It should have worked, but failed. I realized a few chapters in that the book is useless unless you have a college level A&P text to refer to. It simply doesn't work as a standalone book. The effect is compounded by a lot of outright editing errors and design mistakes...
The graphics are just plain pitiful. Apparently, they blew their whole art budget on the computer generated color plates which are never referred to in the text, and they are so basic and lacking in any supportive text or labeling that you have to wonder why they bothered (OK, I know why they bothered, `curb appeal', you probably can't sell an anatomy book that doesn't have some color images in it, no matter how unrelated to the text they are). The remaining graphics are stock material that I would guess the author didn't have available while writing the text. The text frequently describes structures which are not shown in the graphics, giving the text a `house that jack built' feeling to it as the author describes one thing linked to another in a long series that is impossible to follow given the supporting material in the book.
The worst sin committed by this book is `redirection hell'. Invariably, when the text and the graphics do match up the graphic is on previous or following pages. The result being that while you read about the house that jack built you have to flip back and forth. Some triangulation between the author, editor, and graphic designer could help resolve this. Further, the author constantly refers the reader to other chapters in the book for related topics. This, I assume, is the promised holistic linking of bodily systems together. Hypertext is alright for wikipedia, but very difficult to read or manage in a printed book. I ended up indexing the book with color coded sticky tabs. Finally, the author does, in fact, refer you to college level A&P texts here and there, but I recommend you get one right away and at least skim it in parallel with this book. I had to borrow an old A&P text from my wife and mark that up with sticky tabs as well. The end result is you have to flip back and forth in this text and flip back and forth between this text and another A&P textbook to make sense of the material. That's a lot of work. For all that I could have just read the old A&P text book and skipped the hard parts.
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~ Written on 2006-04-07
This could have been a pretty good book. With some better editing and some better graphic design it would have been alright. The concept is a good one, create an easy reading A&P guide by eliminating (or at least explaining) most of the arcane terminology and massive tables of body parts that A&P students have to memorize, reduce the body systems to simple schematics, focusing on critical cycles and relationships between systems, and present it all in a breezy, fun style.
It should have worked, but failed. I realized a few chapters in that the book is useless unless you have a college level A&P text to refer to. It simply doesn't work as a standalone book. The effect is compounded by a lot of outright editing errors and design mistakes...
The graphics are just plain pitiful. Apparently, they blew their whole art budget on the computer generated color plates which are never referred to in the text, and they are so basic and lacking in any supportive text or labeling that you have to wonder why they bothered (OK, I know why they bothered, `curb appeal', you probably can't sell an anatomy book that doesn't have some color images in it, no matter how unrelated to the text they are). The remaining graphics are stock material that I would guess the author didn't have available while writing the text. The text frequently describes structures which are not shown in the graphics, giving the text a `house that jack built' feeling to it as the author describes one thing linked to another in a long series that is impossible to follow given the supporting material in the book.
The worst sin committed by this book is `redirection hell'. Invariably, when the text and the graphics do match up the graphic is on previous or following pages. The result being that while you read about the house that jack built you have to flip back and forth. Some triangulation between the author, editor, and graphic designer could help resolve this. Further, the author constantly refers the reader to other chapters in the book for related topics. This, I assume, is the promised holistic linking of bodily systems together. Hypertext is alright for wikipedia, but very difficult to read or manage in a printed book. I ended up indexing the book with color coded sticky tabs. Finally, the author does, in fact, refer you to college level A&P texts here and there, but I recommend you get one right away and at least skim it in parallel with this book. I had to borrow an old A&P text from my wife and mark that up with sticky tabs as well. The end result is you have to flip back and forth in this text and flip back and forth between this text and another A&P textbook to make sense of the material. That's a lot of work. For all that I could have just read the old A&P text book and skipped the hard parts.
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~ Written on 2006-04-07