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Adam's Navel is a unique scientific, cultural and literary tour of the human body. Starting with the head and ending with the feet, Sims gives us an entertaining and illuminating account of the outside of the human body and our responses to it. From the ancient prejudice against... read more

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A single versatile membrane unites the varied regions of our bodily landscape into the appearance of what Whitman called "the form complete."

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  1. Michael Sims (Author)
 

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