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Summary: Amazing pictures
Review: The miracle of birth is truly a miracle and we are lucky enough to live in an age where technology can help us see it. I bought the book solely for the pictures after I saw it featured in TIME magazine. The text was helpful enough for the expectant mother but not detailed enough to be medically informative. A picture is worth a thousand words without the need to speak them, this book rendered me beyond speechless.
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Summary: Breathtaking and Brilliant
Review: The Time Magazine article can't begin to prepare you for how amazing this book is. I read a story in USA Today that explained how he did it -- this technology is light years beyond the Lennart book. That book is nice -- we got it when we were expecting our first child -- but it cannot compare with the wonder and beauty of this book. You feel a sense of awe as you see a baby going from a single cell to a fully-formed human being. I highly recommend this as a gift for any woman expecting a baby, or anyone fascinated by the processes of life.
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Summary: My body is amazing!!!!
Review: This book came in the mail 3 days before I got a positive pregnancy test (awesome timing). Every few days I look through the book to see what my baby is doing. I feel absolutely amazed by what is happening inside my body. I reccommend this book to every expectant mother.
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Summary: Unbelievable imagery, a must read
Review: This book is a must read. The images are phenomenal and unbelievably unique. I was able to understand the developing systems in the body and how each part of anatomy changes as the embryo develops. The text is very intelligently written, easy to understand and enlightening.
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Summary: BREATHTAKING BOOK....pleased with purchase!
Review: This book is beautiful. I was so and still am amazed with the graphic images throughout. What a wonderful book to share with others. I can't wait until my son is old enough to fully understand the miracle of life! This is great to have and would make a terrific gift for that mother-to-be or anyone who appreciates such wonder.
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Summary: A beautiful book
Review: This is a beautiful book. It helps every expected parent to have a better on how his/her baby looks like before he/she is born. Recommended!
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Summary: Disappointing book doesn't deliver
Review: Unfortunately I have read this book before in the form of Lennart Neilsens 'A Child is Born.' In fact, the format is exactly the same - Conception, Development and Birth - that is available in a hundered other books. There is nothing new here except someone 'colorizing' old archival images using a Photoshop program.The authors are neither experts in fetal development nor do they even have Ph.D.s...lending more credence to the argument that the book is copied or at the very least based on, Lennart Neilsen's. There are blatant errors in the book that a Ph. D. author would recognize. For example, the description of the appearance of the precursor somites is out of chronological order in Tsiara's scheme. Also he describes the presence of blood before describing the appearance of blood forming entities like blood islands and the liver. Clearly a non-sequitur. This is a obvious stuff that should be corrected. Until then the book has limited usefulness. Stay with the classic not the inferior knockoff. Who am I? I'm a Ph. D. scientist that studies prenatal physiology and behavior.
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Summary: Great information
Review: Very informative, all expecting mothers should have one.
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Summary: view of a layman [person]
Review: Yesterday I was browsing in Barnes & Noble and picked up this book. I'm into literature and not big on science but the cover was intriguing so I opened it. Thirty minutes later (of being entranced) I finally closed it, and went home to go online to buy it at a cheaper price on Amazon[.com] (sorry, B&N!) Then I read these customer reviews. I have to say, I take issue with some of the things they wrote. The book clearly stated the images are digital creations from actual physiological data, thus they are as real and accurate as a film photograph. And how could such images ever be considered "propaganda"? Only in this country with our backward "moral" obsessions could innocent scientific images of how we human beings develop from the moment of conception be accused of politics. It seems to me this book is pure science mixed with the miraculous beauty of our biological creation. It also strikes me that such a book with such images is long overdue, in view of our incredible leaps in technology.... Speaking of technological leaps, I'm certain the Neilsen book he cites was an important book for its time; but why would a "Ph.D. scientist" want to deny people such new, and exciting, and beautiful, technological images of the life miracle that is us? That's like wanting Hollywood to use special effects techniques from the 1960's to make a movie in 2002. And he accuses the authors of not being "experts in fetal development"; I had to laugh: obviously the authors are experts in fetal development, very much so, as a thirty-minute perusal like the one I did of the book will prove.) One more thing: I'm a layman's layman, and admittedly not big on science; but I remember - and I still have it - Carl Sagan's book COSMOS as fascinating, because it taught a layman moron like me about space and the cosmos. Well, this book teaches a layman moron like me, in a like manner, about how I grew in my mother's womb until my moment of birth. I'm not a "Ph.D. scientist", but I think this makes this book of particular value.
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