Kurt Stenn
Teoksen Hair: A Human History tekijä
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Kurt Stenn has over thirty years of expertise studying hair at institutions including the Yale University School of Medicine and Johnson Johnson. He has lectured extensively on the biology of the hair follicle, written over 200 peer review scientific publications, and served on the adjunct näytä lisää faculties of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Drexel University, and Georgia Institute of Technology. He lives in Princeton, NJ. näytä vähemmän
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- 1
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- 50
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- #316,248
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- 4.0
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For all that, it's quite a short book, so it sometimes feels like you're kind of just getting lots and lots of random hair facts thrown at you quickly without a lot of in-depth exploration, and sometimes without a whole lot of rhyme or reason. Which could be annoying, but, I have to say, I was far too interested by all the huh-I-never-knew-that hair facts to care much. If you are also the sort of person capable of being pleasantly distracted by learning, for instance, that the best hairs for paintbrushes come from the underside of the tail of a male Siberian sable during winter, or that there's a legend about felt being invented by a guy walking around with wool in his shoes, then this is definitely the book for you.
I still don't know why that one weird, annoying hair keeps growing out of the side of my neck, though.… (lisätietoja)