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Adam's Navel A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form

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Publisher's Synopsis

A cultural history of the perceptions, exploitations, and celebrations of the human body discusses such topics as Achilles' heel, dreadlocks, fingerprints, breast feeding, navel rings, and back pain.

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Viking

Viking publishes the widest possible range of literary fiction and non-fiction. Our fiction list includes John le Carré, Nick Hornby, Will Self, Colm Tóibín, Nicole Krauss, William Trevor, Catherine O' Flynn, Jonathan Coe, and Joshua Ferris. In non-fiction, the range covers current affairs, history, biography, memoir, narrative non-fiction, music and sport. Our authors include Antony Beevor, Andrew Rawnsley, Mark Bostridge, Sarah Bradford, Saul David, Catherine Bailey, Lynn Barber, Claire Tomalin and John Stubbs.

Book information

ISBN:	9780670032242
Publisher:	Viking
Imprint:	Viking
Pub date:	01 Jan 2003
DEWEY:	306.4
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	342
Weight:	531g
Height:	218mm
Width:	148mm
Spine width:	31mm