cover image Looking Inside the Brain

Looking Inside the Brain

Ron Schultz. Avalon Travel Publishing, $6.95 (43pp) ISBN 978-1-56261-064-7

``Faster than a speeding computer, more powerful than the strongest of bodies, able to leap vast concepts in a single bound. . . . It's your brain!'' This lively entry in the X-ray Vision series offers a frenetic, engrossing examination of the human brain. The book's enticing design features Day-Glo colors, lucid photographs, off-beat cartoony art and clear, carefully labeled diagrams--pulled together by bold checked borders. The addition of a jazzy, fact-filled text results in sure-fire exciting recreational reading. The survey discusses the brain's anatomy, functions and evolution; senses and the Central Nervous System; memory, drams, diseases and much more. The sometimes jokey but fact-packed prose style is complemented by ample sidebar Brain Teasers (``Is the mind less than the brain, equal to the brain, or more than the brain?'') and never fails to will keep even the most scientifically challenged reader engaged. Ages 8-12. (July)