{"product_id":"breasts-9780393345070","title":"Breasts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn engaging narrative about an incredible, life-giving organ and its imperiled modern fate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A smart, wry synthesis of evolution, physiology, microbiology, environmental science, and even biomechanics.\" -- Carl Zimmer \"Akin to Rachel Carson's 1962 classic Silent Spring.\" -- M. G. Lord \"Exceptional.\" \"Starred Review. Meant to nurture the next generation for life on planet Earth, breasts are also humanity's first responders to environmental changes. And what have modern-day chemical exposures wrought? The answers to this question and many more are found in Williams's remarkably informative and compelling work of discovery.\" \"Williams has done us all-men and women-an enormous favor.\" \"With a scientist's mind, a journalist's eye, and a mother's heart, Williams has produced a wide-ranging environmental history of the breast...Williams delineates one of the most consequential dramas at the intersection of human evolution and environmental change.\" \"Highly informative and remarkably entertaining... [Williams's] inquisitive tone deftly melds careful reportage and a witty streak of lay skepticism.\" \"Much like [Mary Roach's] Stiff, Breasts benefits from its author's field trips...Seen this way-the breast as a canary in a toxic coal mine-[Williams's] call to protect them feels both timely and urgent.\" \"A wonderful and entertaining tour through the evolution, biology and cultural aspects of the organ that defines us as mammals!\" -- Susan Love, M.D., M.B.A., President of Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864545669463,"sku":"9780393345070","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393345070.jpg?v=1722272407","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/breasts-9780393345070","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}