Teenagers: A Natural History - Hardcover

Bainbridge, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846271215 ISBN 13: 9781846271212

Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

During the second decade of human life, the body and brain undergo a profound and complex transformation, with emotions and intellect changing as rapidly and unpredictably as weight and height. These changes can be baffling - to teenagers and to those around them alike - but adolescence plays an important evolutionary role in who we become as adults and there are hard scientific facts behind the spots, the smells, and the sexual experimentation, as well as the existential angst, the anger, and the irresistible attraction to all the things that are bad for you. In clear, engaging and amiable prose, David Bainbridge explains the strange and wonderful science of the teenage years.

About this title

Product Description:

Why do teenagers need so much sleep? Why do their feet begin to smell? Why are they suddenly attracted to sex, drugs and rock and roll? This book gives you the biological, anthropological, zoological, and cultural answers.

Review:

'A thoughtful but sometimes unsettling book ... Bainbridge has written a compelling natural history'
-Financial Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1846271215
• ISBN 13: 9781846271212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304