When Things Go Wrong: Diseases

from The Body

Ebook
On sale Apr 21, 2020 | 24 Pages | 9780593312162

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.
© Catherine Williams
Bill Bryson’s bestselling books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. His acclaimed work of popular science A Short History of Nearly Everything won the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize and is the bestselling nonfiction book of the twenty-first century. Bill Bryson was a chancellor of Durham University, is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society, and lives in England. View titles by Bill Bryson
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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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.

Author

© Catherine Williams
Bill Bryson’s bestselling books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. His acclaimed work of popular science A Short History of Nearly Everything won the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize and is the bestselling nonfiction book of the twenty-first century. Bill Bryson was a chancellor of Durham University, is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society, and lives in England. View titles by Bill Bryson

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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