On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters

Author/Contributor(s):	Tsui, Bonnie
Publisher:	Algonquin Books
Date:	04/22/2025
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"Cardiac, smooth, skeletal--these three different types of muscle in our bodies make our hearts beat; push food through our intestines, blood through our vessels, babies out the uterus; attach to our bones and allow for motion. Tsui also traces how muscles have defined beauty--and how they have distorted it--through the ages, and how they play an essential role in our physical and mental health"--