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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Cover image: Alamy Images (Sprinter, artwork/Sciepro/Science Photo Library)
Illustrations by: Peter Bull pp.14, 20, 53
The publishers would like to thank the following for their permission to reproduce photographs:
Alamy Images pp.5 (Brain anatomy/Pixologicstudio/Science Photo Library), 8 (Retina rods and cones/Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library), 16 (Healthy lungs/Andrzej Wojcicki/Science Photo Library), 16 (Human alveoli/Sciepro/Science Photo Library), 17 (Tanya Streeter breaking the No Limits sled free dive record/Buzz Pictures), 26 (Healthy digestive system/Pixologicstudio/Science Photo Library), 29 (Kidney cross section/Brain light), 49 (Evelyn Glennie/ZUMA Press, Inc.), 56 (Collage of photographs/Blend Images); Corbis pp.2 (Atletico Madrid’s Raul Garcia goes for a header/Maxim Shemetov/Reuters), 8 (Structure of the eye/MedicalRF.com), 10 (Woman drinking coffee/Peter Dressel/Blend Images), 19 (Internal anatomy of bone/Science Photo Co.), 22 (Rock climber/Rich Wheater/Aurora Open), 32 (Human dermal layers with hair and nerves/doc-stock), 39 (Human embryo/3d4Medical.com), 41 (Camp III after a storm/Galen Rowell), 47 (Emily Fennell, hand-transplant recipient/Ann Johansson), 55 (Elderly men exercise in public park/Jonathan Kingston/National Geographic Society); Getty Images pp.3 (Stephen Wiltshire/James Ambler/Barcroft USA), 6 (Fire fighting/Michael Melford), 18 (USA relay team/Olivier Morin/AFP), 25 (Teenagers eating pizza/Fuse); Oxford University Press pp.35 (Library/Blend Images), 60 (Man flexing muscles/Fancy), 60 (Bone/Corbis), 60 (Blood cells/Corbis), 60 (Brain model/Photodisc); Rex Features pp.37 (Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein/Sipa Press), 50 (Brazilian Alan Oliveira); Science Photo Library pp.0 (Immunofluorescent LM of astrocyte brain cells/Nancy Kedersha), 10 (Anatomy of the ear/Pascal Marseaud, ISM), 12 (Pacinian corpuscles/Manfred Kage), 23 (Skeletal muscle fibres/Professors P.M. Motta, P.M. Andrews, K.R. Porter & J. Vial), 28 (Lymph tissue/PR. J. Bernard/CNRI), 31 (Human hair on skin/Steve Gschmeissner), 38 (Sperm on egg during fertilisation/D. Phillips), 43 (Neutrophil engulfing thrush fungus), 44 (T4 bacteriophage virus/Dept. of Microbiology, Biozentrum), 45 (Fractured arm, x-ray/Du Cane Medical Imaging Ltd); Shutterstock pp.60 (Hand/FrameAngel), 60 (Chromosome/SSCREATIONS); World Access for the Blind p.48 (Daniel Kish/Dan Kimberley)
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