The body builders : inside the science of the engineered human
(2017)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
660.6/PIORE,A

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 660.6/PIORE,A Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]
©2017
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

376 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780062347145, 0062347144 :, 9780062347145 :, 0062347144
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Moving. The bionic man who builds bionic people : replicating the way we move ; The birth of Bamm-Bamm : decoding the genome and rewriting it ; The man with the pixie dust : regenerative medicine and the quest to regrow limbs -- Sensing. The woman who can see with her ears : neuroplasticity and learning pills ; Soldiers with Spidey sense : intuition and implicit learning ; The telepathy technician : decoding the brain and imagined speech -- Thinking. the boy who remembers everything : Viagra for the brain ; The surgeon conducting the symphony : DBS and the power of electricity ; Sudden savants : unleashing the inner muse

A tour of the current revolution in human augmentation explores how the world's most innovative engineers are helping people repair traumatic injuries while transcending physical and mental limitations