The Complete Idiot's Guide to Anatomy and Physiology

This wonderful book makes my life alot easier to understand this amazing study of the human body HIGHLY reccomended for any nursing student or aspiring student. Its funny and easy to understand.

The great thing about this book is the way it reads. The information is presented in a clear and concise manner without being boring or overbearning. In many ways it's more like sitting down and having a conversation with Mr. Lazaroff then reading a text book. The book is also organized in such a way that it is very easy to look up topics which saves time and energy if you want information on a specific topic. I use the text book by Martini for my college level anatomy and physiology class, which is a great text, but can become very boaring very quickly. I often find myself using Mr. Lazaroff's book as a jumping off point for further class reading or as another perspective on topics that I have difficulty comprehending. The book is great for students who are new to the subject, or students who have taken anatomy in the past and want a totally different perspective on the subject. Overall, the book is fun, entertaining, and puts a new spin on an age old subject.

I'm complete idiot, in this topic. Therefore, everything is new to me, no prior knowledge in chemistry, anatomy or physiology. I found this book to be an excellent intro-intermediate book. The book is very well organized; material is very clear, and very thoughtfully explained. One can feel the author is passionate about topic and really tries to make the reading as exciting as possible. I would recommend considering external references, since some topics have no pictures, or have insufficient explanation. I would recommend to use google, or get subscription to online encyclopedia (which I've done). The few things to improve: 1. Extensive use and reference to chemistry/biology, even so author does explain some basics concepts (and does very good job), I still found it's not enough to really understand it 100%. 2. Some details/info could be omitted. It's great too have all this stuff, but it's easy to get lost in all this things. It could be better, if author concentrate on topics that are more important and live some details outside. 3. Some topics have no picture available. It's makes it harded to understand how some bones/organs fit together/where they are located. I think if one is not going to be M.D. this book is all one will ever need. It has everything needed to understand the topic. Highly recommended.

Mr. Lazaroff is my High School Bio teacher, and thats kinda freaky that he wrote this book......