On muscle : the stuff that moves us and why it matters
(2025)
By:
Tsui, Bonnie
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
NEW 612.74/TSUI,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2025
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781643753089, 1643753088 :, 1643753088, 9781643753089
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Cardiac, smooth, skeletal--these three different types of muscles in our bodies make our hearts beat; push food through our intestines, blood through our vessels, babies out the uterus; attach to our bones and allow for motion. Tsui also traces how muscles have defined beauty--and how they have distorted it--through the ages, and how they play an essential role in our physical and mental health."--