Earthly Materials, 9798212206303
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Bodily emissions: a surprisingly essential, weird, and informative human history.

Earthly Materials

journeys through our bodies' emissions, excretions, and disintegrations

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    28 April 2025

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Summary

Earthly Materials: A Quirky Journey Through Our Bodily Emissions

Bill Bryson’s The Body meets Mary Roach’s Gulp in this delightfully weird, richly informative, and unexpectedly lyrical tour of our bodily emissions–revealing that the very parts of us that we seek to hide in embarrassment are actually an essential part of human health, with fascinating social history.

In biology class, we learn that the body is a fundamentally cohesive organism, a collection …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9798212206303
Author:Cutter Wood, Josh Bloomberg
Publisher:HarperCollins
Imprint:HarperCollins
Format:CD
Release Date:28 April 2025
Weight:236g
Dimensions:137mm x 145mm x 28mm
About The Author

Cutter Wood

Cutter Wood is the author of Love and Death in the Sunshine State. His work has appeared in Harper’s, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Paris Review Daily, and other publications. He completed an MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa, is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and was the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence at George Washington University. He lives in Baltimore with his partner and family.

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