Skin Deep. The Inside Story Of Our Outer Selves

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Vintage
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2022
Edition: First Edition

Description: 325 pages. Ex-Library. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A book about skin, that wonderful thing that covers our body, acting as both barrier and receptor to life. This is a book about skin. The strange wonderfulness of our bodily covering. What happens to it when something goes wrong. How the world responds to imperfection and difference. It's about how skin makes us who we are. Skin serves as a barrier between us and the germs that would otherwise invade and destroy us. It regulates our temperature. Skin remains waterproof even while our entire epidermis replaces itself each month. The body's biggest organ even has its own sub-set of organs - sweat glands, sebaceous glands and hair follicles. Primeval, sometimes mysterious forces drive skin-to-skin contact, but erotic desire is but one of many deep-seated urges that make us want to touch the skin of another. Touch is how we express love and affection as well as darker, violent emotions.

ISBN: 9781760898731