Click here for NICC Library Webpage	Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   My Account   ID Information   Calmar New Materials   Peosta New Materials

Advanced Alphabetical Basic History

Search:  General KeywordTitle KeywordAuthor KeywordSubject KeywordISBN/ISSN Exact MatchISBN/ISSN BrowseSerial Title BrowseTitle AlphabeticalSubject AlphabeticalAuthor AlphabeticalAlphabetical SeriesBarcodeBib No.Journal/Newspaper Title BrowseSeries Keyword       Refine Search     > You're searching: Northeast Iowa Community College

Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Lyman, Monty, author.     Subjects     Skin -- Physiology     Skin -- Care and hygiene     Skin -- Diseases     Skin Physiological Phenomena.     HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Skin.     MEDICAL / Dermatology.     SCIENCE / Life Sciences.     Skin -- Care and hygiene     Skin -- Diseases     Skin -- Physiology     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lyman, Monty, author.       by title:      The Remarkable life ...         MARC Display

The Remarkable life of the skin : an intimate journey across our largest organ / Monty Lyman. by Lyman, Monty, author. New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2020. Description:  xvii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Contents:  The Swiss Army organ -- Skin safari -- Gut feeling -- Towards the light -- Ageing skin -- The first sense -- Psychological skin -- Social skin -- The skin that separates -- Spiritual skin. Summary:  "Providing a cover for our delicate and intricate bodies, the skin is our largest and fastest-growing organ. We see it, touch it, and live in it every day. It is a habitat for a mesmerizingly complex world of micro-organisms and physical functions that are vital to our health and our survival. It is also a waste removal plant, a warning system for underlying disease, and a dynamic immune barrier to infection. One of the first things people see about us, skin is crucial to our sense of identity, providing us with social significance and psychological meaning. And yet our skin and the fascinating way it functions is largely unknown to us. In prose as lucid as his research underlying it is rigorous, blending in memorable stories from the past and from his own medical experience, Dr. Monty Lyman has written a revelatory book exploring our outer surface that will surprise and enlighten in equal measure. Through the lenses of science, sociology, and history-on topics as diverse as the mechanics and magic of touch, the close connection between the skin and the gut, what happens instantly when one gets a paper cut, and how a midnight snack can lead to sunburn-Lyman leads us on a journey across our most underrated and unexplored organ and reveals how our skin is far stranger, more wondrous, and more complex than we have ever imagined"---Provided by publisher. Genre:  Popular Work. Popular Works. Creative nonfiction. Instructional and educational works.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Calmar Campus Library Circulation Stacks (Calmar) 612.79 Lym 2020 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9807

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.