₨ 12,950
ISBN: 8129104156
Publisher: RUPA & CO
Subtitle: THE BUILDINGS OF A GREAT CITY
Author: BRIAN PAUL BACH
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| Weight | 3 kg |
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| ISBN | 8129104156 |
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| Publication Date | 2006 |
| Pages | 733 |
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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.
ISBN: 0670032247
Publisher: VIKING
Subtitle: A NATURAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HUMAN FORM
Author: MICHAEL SIMS
ISBN: 193277193X
Publisher: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHY
Subtitle: ARCHITECTURE & THE SPIRIT OF PLACE
Author: TRAVIS PRICE
ISBN: 9780748699179
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO THE TIMURID PERIOD – NEW EDITION
Author: F. RAYMOND ALLCHIN
ISBN: 9694072085
Publisher: ROYAL BOOKS
Subtitle:
Author: SHAIKH KHURSHID HASAN
ISBN: 0415415020
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Subtitle: A READER
Author: TIMOTHY INSOLL
