Visually this is a stunning book, coffee table size with beautiful glossy double page spreads of diagrams, photographs and scans. The text on each page is learned and accessible and this would be a good book for kids, the information bites are fairly small. But despite its beauty I feel there is something lacking. Many of the photographs of people are of the kind you find on clipart sites illustrating an emotion and don't really serve any purpose, they feel very pat. The structure of the book is such that you can dip in and out of any spread, so there is no linear narrative, even the history of knowlege on the first pages jumps around and is difficult to follow. A little too slick.
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