All About Your Brain

Author: Robert Winston

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Price : $19.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780241243596
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Imprint : DK Children
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Weight (g) : 0.416
Publication date : December 2015
Dimensions : 276mm X 216mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 19.99
Availability date : February 2016
Out of print date : June 2018
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Author : Robert Winston
Series : All About
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Edition : 316
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Language : en
Dewey classification : 612.82
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Pages : 96
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Description

Discover why you do what you do Join Professor Robert Winston and introduce your child to the most powerful, complicated computer network that exists - their brain. From what the different parts of the brain do and why it changes at different stages in a person's life, All About Your Brain uncovers the amazing things your brain does while you are awake and asleep. All About Your Brain packed with amazing illustrations and fascinating facts like why bird song is similar to human speech and what makes animals yawn. As well as fun brainteasers to test your child's memory, perception, reasoning and reactions.

Author description

A household name thanks to popular TV series that include The Human Body, which won three baftas, Superhuman, Walking with Cavemen and The Human Mind. A winner of the Royal Society's prestigious Michael Faraday Gold Award, he was made a life peer in 1995.

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