The Resource Skin : a natural history, Nina G. Jablonski
Skin : a natural history, Nina G. Jablonski
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The item Skin : a natural history, Nina G. Jablonski represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages
- Contents
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- Skin laid bare
- History
- Sweat
- Skin and sun
- Skin's dark secret
- Color
- Touch
- Emotions, sex, and skin
- Wear and tear
- Statements
- Future skin
- Label
- Skin : a natural history
- Title
- Skin
- Title remainder
- a natural history
- Statement of responsibility
- Nina G. Jablonski
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jablonski, Nina G
- Dewey number
- 612.7/9
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QP88.5
- LC item number
- .J33 2006
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 2006 L-409
- WR 102
- NLM item number
- J11s 2006
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Skin
- Peau
- Huid
- Skin Physiological Phenomena
- Skin Care
- Skin Diseases
- Skin Pigmentation
- Kulturgeschichtsschreibung
- Haut
- Angewandte Anthropologie
- Label
- Skin : a natural history, Nina G. Jablonski
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-241) and index
- Contents
- Skin laid bare -- History -- Sweat -- Skin and sun -- Skin's dark secret -- Color -- Touch -- Emotions, sex, and skin -- Wear and tear -- Statements -- Future skin
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages
- Form of item
- online
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps (some color))
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036944949
- Label
- Skin : a natural history, Nina G. Jablonski
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-241) and index
- Contents
- Skin laid bare -- History -- Sweat -- Skin and sun -- Skin's dark secret -- Color -- Touch -- Emotions, sex, and skin -- Wear and tear -- Statements -- Future skin
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages
- Form of item
- online
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color), maps (some color))
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1036944949
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