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When Things Go Wrong: Diseases

By Bill Bryson

By Bill Bryson

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Apr 21, 2020 | ISBN 9780593312162

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About When Things Go Wrong: Diseases

In this selection from The Body, his compulsively readable and bestselling owner’s manual to the human body, Bill Bryson introduces us to the mysterious, and often devastating, world of disease.

Written with extraordinary insight and filled with remarkable facts, When Things Go Wrong deepens our understanding of the maladies that afflict us–what they are and how they work.  

A Vintage Short.

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About Bill Bryson

BILL BRYSON’s bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union’s highest literary award). He was… More about Bill Bryson

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Category: Wellness | Science & Technology | Humor

Ebook | $0.99
Published by Vintage
Apr 21, 2020 | 24 Pages | ISBN 9780593312162
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Praise

Praise for Bill Bryson’s The Body: 

“Glorious… Astonishing…. From up to down and from miraculous operational efficiencies to malignant mayhem when things go awry…. You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design.” —The Washington Post 

“Fascinating.” —NPR

“A directory of wonders…. Extraordinary…. A tour of the minuscule…. Wry, companionable, avuncular and always lucid…[The Body] could stand as an ultimate prescription for life.” —The Guardian

“Arresting…. Bryson is adept at finding the bizarre and the arcane in his subject matter…. Amazing.” —USA Today

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