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BIG
IDEAS
THE ART BOOK
THE ASTRONOMY BOOK
THE BIBLE BOOK
THE BUSINESS BOOK
THE CLASSICAL MUSIC BOOK
THE CRIME BOOK
THE ECOLOGY BOOK
THE ECONOMICS BOOK
THE FEMINISM BOOK
THE HISTORY BOOK
THE ISLAM BOOK
THE LAW BOOK
THE LITERATURE BOOK
THE MATH BOOK
THE MEDICINE BOOK
THE MOVIE BOOK
THE MYTHOLOGY BOOK
THE PHILOSOPHY BOOK
THE PHYSICS BOOK
THE POLITICS BOOK
THE PSYCHOLOGY BOOK
THE RELIGIONS BOOK
THE SCIENCE BOOK
THE SHAKESPEARE BOOK
THE SHERLOCK HOLMES BOOK
THE SOCIOLOGY BOOK
SIMPLY
EXPLAINED
MEDICINE
BOOK
THE
DK LONDON
SENIOR ART EDITOR
Helen Spencer
SENIOR EDITORS
Camilla Hallinan, Kathryn Hennessy,
Laura Sandford
EDITORS
Anna Cheifetz, Lydia Halliday,
Joanna Micklem, Victoria Pyke,
Dorothy Stannard, Rachel Warren Chadd
US EDITOR
Kayla Dugger
ILLUSTRATIONS
James Graham
JACKET DESIGN
DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Sophia MTT
PRODUCTION EDITOR
George Nimmo
PRODUCER
Nancy-Jane Maun
SENIOR MANAGING ART EDITOR
Lee Griffiths
MANAGING EDITOR
Gareth Jones
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHING DIRECTOR
Liz Wheeler
ART DIRECTOR
Karen Self
DESIGN DIRECTOR
Philip Ormerod
PUBLISHING DIRECTOR
Jonathan Metcalf
DK DELHI
SENIOR ART EDITORS
Ira Sharma, Vikas Sachdeva,
Vinita Venugopal
PROJECT ART EDITOR
Sourabh Challariya
ART EDITORS
Shipra Jain, Noopur Dalal, Anukriti Arora
ASSISTANT ART EDITORS
Ankita Das, Bandana Paul, Adhithi Priya
SENIOR EDITOR
Janashree Singha
EDITORS
Nandini D. Tripathy, Rishi Bryan,
Avanika
MANAGING EDITOR
Soma B. Chowdhury
SENIOR MANAGING ART EDITOR
Arunesh Talapatra
SENIOR JACKET DESIGNER
Suhita Dharamjit
DTP DESIGNERS
Ashok Kumar, Mrinmoy Mazumdar
PICTURE RESEARCH COORDINATOR
Sumita Khatwani
ASSISTANT PICTURE RESEARCHER
Sneha Murchavade
PICTURE RESEARCH MANAGER
Taiyaba Khatoon
PRE-PRODUCTION MANAGER
Balwant Singh
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Pankaj Sharma
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STUDIO 8
First American Edition, 2021
Published in the United States by
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CONTRIBUTORS
STEVE PARKER, CONSULTANT EDITOR
Steve Parker is a writer and editor of more than 300
information books specializing in science, particularly
biology and medicine, and allied life sciences. He holds a
BSc in Zoology, is a senior scientific fellow of the Zoological
Society of London, and has authored titles for a range of
ages and publishers. Among Steve’s recent accolades is
the British Medical Association’s Award for the Public
Understanding of Science for
Kill or Cure: An Illustrated
History of Medicine.
BEN HUBBARD
Ben Hubbard is an accomplished nonfiction author of
books for children and adults. He has more than 120 titles
to his name and has written on everything from space, the
samurai, and sharks to poison, pets, and the Plantagenets.
His books have been translated into more than a dozen
languages and can be found in libraries around the world.
PHILIP PARKER
Philip Parker is a critically acclaimed author, award-winning
editor, and historian specializing in the classical and
medieval world. He is author of the
DK Companion Guide
to World History, The Empire Stops Here: A Journey
around the Frontiers of the Roman Empire,
and
A History
of Britain in Maps,
and he was a contributor to DK’s
Medicine.
He was previously a diplomat working on
the UK’s relations with Greece and Cyprus and holds
a diploma in international relations from Johns Hopkins
University’s School of Advanced International Studies.
JOHN FARNDON
John Farndon is a science writer whose books have
been shortlisted for the Royal Society’s Young People’s
Science Book Prize five times, including for
The Complete
Book of the Brain
and
Project Body.
A widely published
author, he has written or contributed to around 1,000 books
on a range of subjects, including the history of medicine,
and has contributed to major books such as
Science
and
Science Year By Year
and the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine website.
ROBERT SNEDDEN
Robert Snedden has been involved in publishing for over
40 years, researching and writing science and technology
books for young people on topics ranging from medical
ethics, autism, cell biology, nutrition, and the human body
to space exploration, engineering, computers, and the
internet. He has also contributed to histories of mathematics,
engineering, biology, and evolution and has written books
for an adult audience on breakthroughs in mathematics and
medicine and the works of Albert Einstein.
TIM HARRIS
Tim Harris is a widely published author on science
and nature for both children and adults. He has written
more than 100 mostly educational reference books
and contributed to many others, including
Knowledge
Encyclopedia Human Body!, An Illustrated History
of Engineering, Physics Matters, Great Scientists,
Exploring the Solar System,
and
Routes of Science.

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