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LEONARDO'S FOOT
HOW 10 TOES, 52 BONES, AND 66 MUSCLES SHAPED THE HUMAN WORLD |
| By: |
Carol Ann Rinzler |
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Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1934137626 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781934137628 |
| Publisher: |
BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
21 May, 2013 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
Step right up for a toe-curling cultural biography of humanity's earthbound extremity! |
| Synopsis: |
Carol Ann Rinzler is the author of the bestselling Nutrition for Dummies and other award-winning books on health and nutrition. With Leonardo's Foot she turns her prodigious explanatory talent toward parsing our cultural and biological evolution by examining the history of our feet. This is popular science writing at its very best-page after page of fascinating facts, threaded together into a larger story about the nature of humanity.Written in the vein of social histories that examine the influence of a commodity on society (Salt and Cod), books which chart our changing attitudes toward the human body (Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History), books about the strange ways we perceive the human body (anything by Mary Roach), or science-focused cultural biographies (anything by Sam Kean), Leonardo's Foot attempts to create a bottom up (rather than top down) history, one that shows it is our feet, as opposed to our brains, which make us distinctly human.Topics covered include disabilities, eugenics, bigotry and discrimination, the science of sexual attraction, medical nutrition and gout, religious attitudes toward the human body, the history of medicine, foot fetishes, and references to historical figures such as da Vinci, Byron, Ben Franklin, Dolley Madison, and Hippocrates. |
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US |
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Bellevue Literary Press |
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Returnable |
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