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Title: The Odd Body
Book Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780207188169
Price (Aust RRP): $19.95
Published: October 1995

Can you keep a severed head alive?
Do your fingernails really grow after you die?
Can our bodies warn us of earthquakes?

Sometimes strange but always informative and entertaining, the answers to these and many more question can be found in The Odd Body.

With an eye for the intriguing and bizarre, Dr Stephen Juan has has assembled a corpus of body facts - and has exposed some fallacies. From tp to bottom, from your inside to your outside and everywhere in between, The Odd Body gives you the bare facts about your body.

   

Title: The Odd Body 2
Book Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732264611
Price (Aust RRP): $19.95
Published: February 2000

Everyone is fascinated by the human body and how it works. The Odd Body is filled with weird, wonderful, informative and entertaining answers to the questions we’ve all wanted to ask about our body but were too afraid to ask. Packed with intriguing and often bizarre facts, The Odd Body will capture everyone’s imagination.

Is human stomach acid really so strong it can dissolve razor blades?
Do Siamese Twins die at the same time?
What is the ‘Exploding Head Syndrome’?
Why don’t astronauts snore?

These and many mysteries are revealed in Volume two of The Odd Body.

   
ODD BODY 3 - Dr Stephen Juan

Title: The Odd Body 3
Book Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732283049
Price (Aust RRP): $24.99
Published: February 2007

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!

   

Title: The Odd Brain
Book Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732257248
Price (Aust RRP): $19.95
Published: June 1998

In 1880 a Dr J. Cotard described the strange delusions of a patient who believed that his body had disappeared. Cotard Syndrome is just one of the many strange pyschological conditions explained in The Odd Brain, the sequel to Dr Stephen Juan's popular first book in the series, The Odd Body.

Why is the brain the body's cleanest organ? Why are some people driven to thrill-seeking or self-mutilation? Why do some people believe they are 'possessed' or have a 'double' following them everywhere? What is the 'Svengali Effect'? And is it true what they say about deja vu and you?

The Odd Brain is full of bizarre facts about strange human behaviours, written with Dr Juan's characteristic empathy and humour.

   

Title: The Odd Sex
Book Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732264703
Price (Aust RRP):
$20.95
Published: December 2001

When it comes to sources of sexual arousal, most of us are fairly normal. But those with a paraphilia have sexual tastes that are far from ordinary. This book will fascinate you, shock you, make you laugh, disgust you and make you doubt that anyone could "really be into that". But rest assured. Someone, somewhere, is.

Dr Stephen Juan, 'The Wizard of Odds' is back with his fourth book in the Odd Book series this December. And this one sure is stranger still. The paraphiliacs out there might think what turns them on is perfectly normal. Practically everyone else thinks it's weird. Do you know someone who has Statuophilia (they get their kicks from mannequins and statues)? How about those strapping Rhabdophiliacs who love nothing better than a good whipping? And then there are the Siderodromophiliacs who've got this thing about trains. ALL ABOARD! Let the good Dr Juan show you the infinite diversities of our fellow humans as we discover this bizarre world of the most unusual sexual tastes.


Illustrations by
Rod Clement

 

 

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