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Though it is our most familiar body part, the badge of our identity, our passport into the hearts and minds of others, the face remains unfathomably mysterious. A simple collection of features, it can convey the subtlest flickers of thought and emotion, yet it can mask them as well. Bestselling science journalist Daniel McNeill unravels the mysteries of the face by examining it from the anatomical, social, psychological, evolutionary and artistic perspectives, creating a portrait as compelling as it is illuminating. THE FACE is a captivating discussion of that combination of eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, forehead, and chin that is the most visible window to our minds.
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Why are faces so different, so full of expression yet so often ambiguous? What makes some alluring, others ugly and why should it matter? Indeed, why do we have faces at all? The face is a social sea we live in, and its familiarity blinds us to its mysteries. This is an exploration into key questions with forays into evolutionary physchology, gain theory and socio-biology. It also discusses the history of mirrors and kissing, the man in the iron mask, nose rings, the power of staring, clown make-up, eye spots on fish and insects, hypnotism, and the idols of Easter Island.
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Daniel McNeill is the principal author of FUZZY LOGIC, which won the 1992-3 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Techonology.
He lives in Los Angeles.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0140259937
- ISBN 13 9780140259933
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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