Bill Bryson's The Body meets Mary Roach's Gulp (with a dash of What's Your Poo Telling You?) in this rollicking and delightfully educational tour of our bodily emissions?from mucus to sweat to poop?revealing them to be as fascinating as they are embarrassing and proving how essential they are to human health. In biology class, we learn that the body is a fundamentally cohesive organism, a collection of organs and tissues working together to a ...
I was convinced that somewhere in this pile of anecdotes and photographs and recollections was the vital clue, the detail that would make everything slide into place, and as I began to assemble all the information I'd gathered into an idea of a woman, I imagined myself at the head of a troupe of deputies and detectives, leading us all inexorably in the direction of Sabine Musil-Buehler.
