Adam's Navel is a unique scientific, cultural and literary tour of the human body. Starting with the head and ending with the feet, Sims gives us an entertaining and illuminating account of the outside of the human body and our responses to it. From the ancient prejudice against left-handedness, to the work of the nineteenth-century criminologist who claimed he could identify the physical characteristics common to criminals, and what we would do without a big toe, Adam's Navel is full of memorable insights, amusing anecdotes and revelations on every page.

Adam's Navel : The Weird and Wonderful Story of the Human Body

Michael Sims

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gardners Books

In this title Michael Sims simultaneously explores the natural history of the body and the cultural history that records our response to it. Divided into sections corresponding with various body parts, this almanac explores every aspect of thehuman form - from the largest organ (the skin) to the evolutionary reasoning behind sexually attractive body parts - witness the cult of aprodite kalipygos ("the goddess with the beautiful buttocks").

Adam's Navel : A Natural and Cultural History of the Body

History

In 20 stories, this anthology traces the literary career of the vampire from John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), through versions of the legends by Tolstoy, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Augustus Hare and MR James to Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest (1914). Michael Sims provides an introduction, notes on the authors and commentary on the vampire genre then and now. No jacket.

Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Bloomsbury UK

Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. The stories range from Aleksei Tolstoy's tale of a vampire family to Fitz James O'Brien's invisible monster to Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rich and sinister widow, Good Lady Ducayne.

Dracula's Guest (Connoisseur's Collections)

The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories

'The Dead Witness' gathers the finest police and private detective adventure stories from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including a wide range of overlooked gems.

The Dead Witness (Connoisseur's Collections)

Short Stories & Anthologies

While composing what would become his most enduring and popular book, Charlotte's Web, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim: 'Write what you know.' Helpless pigs, silly geese,clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favourite hours as child and adult. Painfully shy, White once wrote of himself 'this boy felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people'. Nonetheless, that tens of millions have been so moved by Charlotte's Web, and by White's other classics, testifies to his deep understanding of the human condition. Bringing readers into intimate contact with E. B. White's world, Michael Sims chronicles his animal-rich youth and dreams of being a writer; the vibrant early years of the New Yorker,where urban nature was White's ever-present theme; the discovery of the farm in Maine where he and his wife would live; his fascinating scientific research into how spiders spin webs, lay eggs, and live in the world; his friendship with his legendary editor, Ursula Nordstrom; and the luminous creative process that led to publication of his masterpiece. By refining the raw ore of his childhood in Mount Vernon, New York, in the first decade of the twentieth century, White translated his own passions and contradictions, delights and fears, into a book that would be read the world over. The Story of Charlotte's Web illuminates the life of a literary icon, and will add richness and appreciation for anyone who has loved, or has yet to read, a cherished classic.

Story of Charlotte's Web: E.B

Bloomsbury Publishing

The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of the Best Victorian Ghost Stories

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

BLOOMSBURY

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond [ The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond by Sims, Michael ( Author ) Hardcover Feb- 2014 ] Hardcover Feb- 18- 2014

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)

[Read by Malcolm Hillgartner, Peter Berkrot, Simon Vance, Steve West, Ralph Lister, Johnny Heller, Christopher Lane, John Lee, Gildart Jackson, Bronson Pinchot, Matthew Brenher, Harlan Ellison, Cassandra Campbell, Jim Meskimen] [Includes a BONUS PDF] This follow-up to the national bestseller A Study in Sherlock is a stunning new volume of original stories compiled by award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger. The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were recently voted the top mystery series of all time, and they have enthralled generations of readers - and writers. Now, Laurie R. King, author of the New York Times bestselling Mary Russell series in which Holmes plays a costarring role, and Leslie S. Klinger, Edgar Award-winning editor of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, have assembled a stellar group of contemporary authors from a variety of genres and asked them to create new stories inspired by that canon. Authors included here are Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Michael Dirda, Harlan Ellison, Denise Hamilton, Nancy Holder, John Lescroart, Sara Paretsky, Michael Sims, and more. Inside you'll find Holmes in times and places previously unimagined, as well as characters who have themselves been affected by the tales of Sherlock Holmes. The game is afoot - again!  

In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon

Harlan Ellison

Leslie S. Klinger

Sara Paretsky

Michael-Connelly

JOHN LESCROART

Nancy Holder

Michael Dirda

Jeffery-Deaver

laurie-r-king

Denise Hamilton

and Other Authors

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

[Read by Malcolm Hillgartner, Peter Berkrot, Simon Vance, Steve West, Ralph Lister, Johnny Heller, Christopher Lane, John Lee, Gildart Jackson, Bronson Pinchot, Matthew Brenher, Harlan Ellison, Cassandra Campbell, Jim Meskimen] [Includes a BONUS PDF] This follow-up to the national bestseller A Study in Sherlock is a stunning new volume of original stories compiled by award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger. The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were recently voted the top mystery series of all time, and they have enthralled generations of readers - and writers. Now, Laurie R. King, author of the New York Times bestselling Mary Russell series in which Holmes plays a costarring role, and Leslie S. Klinger, Edgar Award-winning editor of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, have assembled a stellar group of contemporary authors from a variety of genres and asked them to create new stories inspired by that canon. Authors included here are Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Michael Dirda, Harlan Ellison, Denise Hamilton, Nancy Holder, John Lescroart, Sara Paretsky, Michael Sims, and more. Inside you'll find Holmes in times and places previously unimagined, as well as characters who have themselves been affected by the tales of Sherlock Holmes. The game is afoot - again!

United States

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