The Kingdom of Infinite Space

'An amazing book about the human head, and since its chief stated purpose is to amaze, there can be no higher compliment... I've never seen anything like it... A very heady, heady experience... thrilling.' Lynne Truss, Sunday TimesThe Kingdom of Infinite Space is a journey around the part of our anatomy to which we feel most attached: our heads. In this unique combination of biological science and philosophical interrogation, Raymond Tallis takes the head apart, piece by piece, in search of the place where our souls, and consciousness, reside.'[This book] gets the reader to think afresh about everyday experiences such as staring in the mirror, vision, breathing, speaking, hearing, face recognition, laughter, tickling, yawning, sweating, eating, spitting, smoking, vomiting, ageing, sex and death. The pages burst with an entertaining mixture of intriguing facts and thought-provoking observations.' Andrew Robinson, New Scientist'Fascinating... A wonderful treasury of stupefying facts, a sort of Ripley's Believe It Or Not compendium of the extra-ordinary processes that go on inside our fragile skulls... This is a wonderful book, full of passages to make the reader stop and stare, if only in the mirror.' Michael Simkins, Mail on Sunday'A sparkling tour of our senses and the way in which we are embodied... [It] makes the world seem a more interesting place and life that much more important.' Nicholas Fearn, Independent £9.99Popular Science www.atlantic-books.co.ukDesign by [ ] Images courtesy of [ ]