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Culture and the human body
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Burton, John W. |
"In the course of human prehistory and continuing to the present day, culture has played a prominent role in transforming the human form. From birth to death, the body serves as a medium and metaphor… |
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Flesh and Stone
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Richard Sennett |
This vivid history of the city in Western civilization tells the story of urban life through bodily experience. Flesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life? how women and men moved in p… |
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Houdini, Tarzan, and the perfect man
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John F. Kasson |
"In his new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting men's sense of who and what they really were.".
"When … |
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Our own devices
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Edward Tenner |
From the author of Why Things Bite Back-- which introduced us to the revenge antics of technology--Our Own Devices is a wonderfully revealing look at the inventions of everyday things that protect us… |
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Vanity
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Vicki Power |
Presents an overview of trends, customs, and fashions relating to the pursuit of physical beauty from ancient times to the present including such topics as body shape, clothing, cosmetics, and hair f… |
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Body Culture
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Isobel Crombie |
"Max Dupain is regarded as one of Australia's most significant photographers. For the first time, this book details how Dupain's formative early work was created in response to the 'body culture' mov… |
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Embodiment of a nation
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Cecelia Tichi |
"From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Henry David Thoreau's vision of Cape Cod as the "bared and bended arm of Massachusetts," the U.S. environment has been recurrently … |
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Subject matter
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Joyce E. Chaplin |
"With this reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of rac… |
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The dieter's dilemma
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William Bennett |
A summary of scientific research on weight loss dieting since World War II to 1982. |
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The anatomy of the senses
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Piero Camporesi |
209 p. ; 24 cm |
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The DESIRABLE BODY
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Jon Stratton |
250 p. ; 23 cm |
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