Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious Sy…

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that may eternally change how you consider your physique, from the creator of the favored science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell
 
“By fantastic analogies and a genius for clarifying advanced concepts, Immune is a very sensible introduction to the human physique’s huge system for preventing infections and different threats.”—John Inexperienced, #1 New York Instances bestselling writer of The Fault in Our Stars

You get up and really feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You’re mildly irritated as you get the children prepared for varsity and gown for work your self. In the meantime, an epic warfare is being fought, slightly below your pores and skin. Tens of millions are preventing and dying for you to have the ability to complain as you head out the door.
 
 However most of us by no means actually cease to ask: What even is our immune system?

Second solely to the human mind in its complexity, it is without doubt one of the oldest and most crucial sides of life on Earth. With out it, you’ll die inside days. In Immune, Philipp Dettmer, the brains behind the most well-liked science channel on YouTube, takes readers on a journey by way of the fortress of the human physique and its defenses. There’s a fixed battle of staggering scale raging inside us, stuffed with tales of invasion, technique, defeat, and noble self-sacrifice. Actually, within the time you’ve been studying this, your immune system has in all probability recognized and eradicated a most cancers cell that began to develop in your physique.

Every chapter delves into a component of the immune system, together with defenses like antibodies and irritation in addition to threats like micro organism, allergy symptoms, and most cancers, as Dettmer reveals why boosting your immune system is definitely nonsense, how parasites sneak their well beyond your physique’s defenses, how viruses work, and what goes on in your wounds whenever you lower your self.

Enlivened by participating full-color graphics and immersive descriptions, Immune turns one of the crucial intricate, interconnected, and complicated topics—immunology—right into a gripping journey by way of an astonishing alien panorama. Immune is a crucial and remarkably enjoyable crash course in what’s arguably, and more and more, an important system within the physique.

From the Writer

Writer ‏ : ‎ Random Home (November 2, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593241312
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593241318
Merchandise Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 kilos
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.35 x 1.43 x 9.36 inches