The Odd Body III

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Can you be born with two heads and survive? What's the "Pinocchio effect" - and "mermaid syndrome"? Can a recently dead person get sunburn? How is eye colour related to hearing? Does chocolate cause tooth decay, or prevent it? You've heard of anorexia - but what about bigorexia? Sometimes strange but always informative and entertaining, the answers to these and many more questions can be found in the Odd Body 3. Australia's Wizard of Odds is at it again, exploring facts and exploding fallacies about everything from birth to death, from the hair on our heads to the tips of our toenails. He'll tell you everything you ever wanted to know about your odd body - and a lot of things you didn't!

Dr Stephen Juan is an anthropologist and educator who is best known for his award-winning newspaper and magazine articles and for his TV and radio presentations. Dr Juan grew up in California and for more than 30 years has taught at the University of Sydney where he is the Ashley Montagu Fellow in the Faculty of Education and Social Work. This is the seventh book he has written published by HarperCollins Australia.