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Skin: A Natural History
	Author: Nina G. Jablonski Publisher: University of California Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$16.95~~ Buy New: $10.24 You Save: $6.71 (40%) New (29) Used (6) from $10.24 Rating: 10 reviews Sales Rank: 103041 Media: Paperback Edition: 1 Pages: 288 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5 Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.9 x 1 ISBN: 0520256247 Dewey Decimal Number: 301 EAN: 9780520256248 ASIN: 0520256247 Publication Date: May 21, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Brand New, Perfect Condition, Please allow 4-14 business days for delivery. 100% Money Back Guarantee, Over 1,000,000 customers served.


Editorial Reviews: Product Description We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This dazzling synthetic overview, written with a poetic touch and taking many intriguing side excursions, is a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are. Skin: A Natural History 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. 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. She then turns to skin as a canvas for self-expression, exploring our use of cosmetics, body paint, tattooing, and scarification. Skin: A Natural History places the rich cultural canvas of skin within its broader biological context for the first time, and the result is a tremendously engaging look at ourselves.