YouTube好評科普頻道Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell創立者,帶你一窺人體免疫系統的奧妙!
當你起床時突然感覺頭痛,喉嚨也有點癢癢的,或者日常中一不小心劃出一道小傷口,你可能只是感到輕微不適、有點心煩,然而在此同時,一場超乎想像、死傷慘烈的史詩級戰役,正在你的體內發生。
免疫系統的複雜性僅次於大腦,是地球生命體中最古老、最重要的部分之一。失去它,將導致人在數天內死亡。本書帶領讀者踏上探索人體重要防衛堡壘的旅程,每一章節都針對免疫系統的不同部分深入解析,包含抗體、炎症等防禦措施,以及細菌、過敏、癌症等威脅。
擁有超過1600萬訂閱者的YouTube頻道Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell,以可愛精緻的動畫介紹各種科普知識,吸引全球觀眾目光,成為YouTube最受歡迎的頻道之一,這次,頻道創立者菲利浦.戴特莫跨出影片形式,以帶有該頻道標誌性風格的插圖、令人身歷其境的解說,將複雜難懂的免疫學,轉化為精彩無比的紙上知識之旅,帶領讀者輕鬆了解這個人體的重要系統。(文/博客來編譯)
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell
“Through wonderful analogies and a genius for clarifying complex ideas, Immune is a truly brilliant introduction to the human body’s vast system for fighting infections and other threats.”—John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars
You wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You’re mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work yourself. Meanwhile, an epic war is being fought, just below your skin. Millions are fighting and dying for you to be able to complain as you head out the door.
But most of us never really stop to ask: What even is our immune system?
Second only to the human brain in its complexity, it is one of the oldest and most critical facets of life on Earth. Without it, you would die within days. In Immune, Philipp Dettmer, the brains behind the most popular science channel on YouTube, takes readers on a journey through the fortress of the human body and its defenses. There is a constant battle of staggering scale raging within us, full of stories of invasion, strategy, defeat, and noble self-sacrifice. In fact, in the time you’ve been reading this, your immune system has probably identified and eradicated a cancer cell that started to grow in your body.
Each chapter delves into an element of the immune system, including defenses like antibodies and inflammation as well as threats like bacteria, allergies, and cancer, as Dettmer reveals why boosting your immune system is actually nonsense, how parasites sneak their way past your body’s defenses, how viruses work, and what goes on in your wounds when you cut yourself.
Enlivened by engaging full-color graphics and immersive descriptions, Immune turns one of the most intricate, interconnected, and confusing subjects—immunology—into a gripping adventure through an astonishing alien landscape. Immune is a vital and remarkably fun crash course in what is arguably, and increasingly, the most important system in the body.
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