In this title Michael Sims simultaneously explores the natural history of the body and the cultural history that records our response to it. Divided into sections corresponding with various body parts, this almanac explores every aspect of thehuman form - from the largest organ (the skin) to the evolutionary reasoning behind sexually attractive body parts - witness the cult of aprodite kalipygos ("the goddess with the beautiful buttocks").
- ISBN10 0670032247
- ISBN13 9780670032242
- Publish Date 28 July 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 November 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Viking Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 342
- Language English