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Skin A Natural History.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (299 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520954816
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QP88 .S556 2013
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Subject: 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 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 places the rich cultural canvas of skin within its broader biological context for the fi.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction QP88.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn829460119

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface to the 2013 Edition; Introduction; 1 Skin Laid Bare; 2 History; 3 Sweat; 4 Skin and Sun; 5 Skin's Dark Secret; 6 Color; Color Plates and Maps; 7 Touch; 8 Emotions, Sex, and Skin; 9 Wear and Tear; 10 Statements; 11 Future Skin; Glossary; Notes; References; Index

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 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 places the rich cultural canvas of skin within its broader biological context for the fi.

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