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Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form Hardcover - 2003
by Sims, Michael
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
A witty and informed survey, Adam's Navel is a unique brew of science, history, and storytelling that illuminates our perception, exploitation, and celebration of the human body.
Moving from head to toe in twelve chapters, Michael Sims blends cultural history with evolutionary theory to produce a wonderfully original narrative. "No part of the body lacks a story," writes Sims, who analyzes and demystifies the visible parts of the body that make up the whole-our animal form that is also a screen onto which we project our fears and obsessions. He tells of dreadlocks and Achilles' heel, of fingerprints and penis size. He discusses the history of breastfeeding, the allure of navel rings, ancient rules for shaking hands, why nature builds men and women on a female body plan, and how the evolution of our two-legged stance affects childbirth and back pain.
Drawing on evolution and the mechanics of human anatomy, along with Shakespeare, mythology, film, and popular culture, Sims creates a marvelous new lens through which to view this body that we inhabit almost unconsciously. Adam's Navel is a field guide to the landscape of ourselves.
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- Title Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form
- Author Sims, Michael
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 342
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking Adult, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2003-07-28
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0670032247-3-18644362
- ISBN 9780670032242 / 0670032247
- Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 8.57 x 5.83 x 1.23 in (21.77 x 14.81 x 3.12 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Human anatomy, Human physiology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003041196
- Dewey Decimal Code 612
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