Skin : a natural history / Nina G. Jablonski.
Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This synthetic overview, written with a poetic touch and taking many intriguing side excursions, is a guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are. This book cele...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2006.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This synthetic overview, written with a poetic touch and taking many intriguing side excursions, is a guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are. This book celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of human skin: its naked sweatiness, its distinctive sepia rainbow of colors, and its remarkable range of decorations. Author Jablonski begins with a look at skin's structure and functions and then tours its three-hundred-million-year evolution, delving into such topics as the importance of touch and how the skin reflects and affects emotions. She examines the modern human obsession with age-related changes in skin, especially wrinkles, then turns to skin as a canvas for self-expression, exploring our use of cosmetics, body paint, tattooing, and scarification.--From publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-241) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520941705 9780520941700 |