From the Publisher

This book gives a compact vision about the structure and function of the human body in its most basic form. The complex structure and its myrid functions have been lucidly delineated by Dr. Shirley, an eminent Neurophysiologist. She has made a successful attempt in taking through this interesting sajourn of human biology. She has initiated the travel through a window into the structure and functional organization of biological unit and takes one through various systems skeletal system to reproductive system. She has used simple language with straight forward disposition of the facts, making the whole reading informative and pleasurable while doing so she also keeps the subject interesting and thought provoking.

I am sure that this short treatise certainly gives the glimpse of the Human body to those who are not student of human biology, but intending to take a travel through this complex make of Human biology.

CONTENTS

1.	Introduction	1
2.	Why we behave the way we do and How much we can change	10
3.	The Skeletal System	17
4.	The Blood	31
5.	The Circulatory System	38
6.	The Respiratory System	48
7.	Nutrition	58
8.	The Digestive System	66
9.	The Excretory System	76
10.	The Brain-An enchanted Loom	86
11.	Physiology of Stress	98
12.	The Mechanisms of Defense	101
13.	The Endocrine System	107
14.	Senses and Sense Organs	118
15.	The Reproductive System	124

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