FROM CONCEPTION TO BIRTH
- a life unfolds
Alexander Tsiaras


Price: £25.00


Publisher: Vermilion

ABOUT THE BOOK


What's happening with the baby now?


All expectant parents ask this question throughout the exhilarating months of pregnancy. Fuzzy sonograms and doctors' explanations can provide basic information but through Alexander Tsiaras's remarkable achievements in medical imaging technology, parents can see, for the first time, the awe-inspiring process of a new life unfolding, in stunning, wide detail.


The milestones of pregnancy that before could only be described can now be witnessed: the heart's first beats, the appearance of colour in the eye, the emergence of toes and teeth, the brain and nervous system directing development, the first movement of tiny legs and arms and the first indications of gender. The book tracks the development of a baby from the moment of conception through the explosively complex early stages of development and the amazing stages of growth as the baby is nurtured by the mother, ending with the joy of birth.


All this is made possible by revolutions in two sciences. As biologists have decoded the molecular basis of life, computer scientists have developed non-invasive, three dimensional techniques for visualising the body. Alexander Tsiaras has been a pioneer of merging these explorations and discoveries. He has created a virtual camera studio that enables him to view a human body or any part of it individually, scan it, enlarge it, rotate it, adjust its transparency so that we can view inside a living being and light it from an angle. The result is an ability to illuminate the unseen elements that make us who we are.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)


Alexander Tsiaras , President and CEO of Anatomical Travelogue, has over twenty years of experience in the fields of medicine, research and art, and has won world recognition as a photojournalist, artist and writer. His work has featured on the covers of Life, The New York Times Magazine, The Times Magazine and Discover.