The Resource A natural history of the senses, Diane Ackerman
A natural history of the senses, Diane Ackerman
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- Summary
- Ackerman weaves together scientific fact with lore, history, and description to celebrate our ability to smell, taste, hear, touch, and see
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xix, 331 p.
- Contents
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- Smell. The mute sense -- A map of smell -- Of violets and neurons -- The shape of smell -- Buckets of light -- The winter palace of monarchs -- The oceans inside us -- Notions and nations of sweat -- The personality of smell -- Pheromones -- Noses -- Sneezing -- Smell as camouflage -- Roses -- The fallen angel -- Ansomia -- Prodigies of smell -- A famous nose -- An offering to the gods -- Cleopatra's heirs -- Touch. The feeling bubble -- Speaking of touch -- First touches -- What is a touch? -- The code senders -- Hair -- The inner climate -- The skin has eyes -- Adventures in the touch dome -- Animals -- Tattoos -- Pain -- Easing pain -- The point of pain -- Kissing -- The hand -- Professional touchers -- Taboos -- Subliminal touch -- Taste. The social sense -- Food and sex -- The omnivore's picnic -- Of cannibalism and sacred cows -- The bloom of a taste bud -- The ultimate dinner party -- Macabre meals -- The heart of craving
- The psychopharmacology of chocolate -- In praise of vanilla -- The truth about truffles -- Ginger and other medicines -- How to make moose soup in a hole in the ground, or dine in space -- Et fugu, Brute? : Food as thrill-seeking -- Beauty and the beasts -- Hearing. The hearing heart -- Phantoms and drapes -- Jaguar of sweet laughter -- Loud noises -- The limits of hearing, the power of sound -- Deafness -- Animals -- Quicksand and whale songs -- The violin remembers -- Music and emotion -- Is music a language? -- Measure for measure -- Cathedrals in sound -- Earth calling -- Vision. The beholder's eye -- How to watch the sky -- Light -- Color -- Why leaves turn color in the fall -- Animals -- The painter's eye -- The face of beauty -- Watching a night launch of the space shuttle -- The force of an image : ring cycle -- The round walls of home -- Synesthesia. Fantasia -- Courting the muse -- Postscript
- Isbn
- 9780394573359
- Label
- A natural history of the senses
- Title
- A natural history of the senses
- Statement of responsibility
- Diane Ackerman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Ackerman weaves together scientific fact with lore, history, and description to celebrate our ability to smell, taste, hear, touch, and see
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1948-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ackerman, Diane
- Dewey number
- 152.1
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BF233
- LC item number
- .A24 1990
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- WL 700 A182 1990
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Senses and sensation
- Manners and customs
- Human behavior
- Human behavior
- Manners and customs
- Senses and sensation
- Waarneming
- Sinne
- Senses and sensation
- Sensation
- Sense Organs
- Social Behavior
- Label
- A natural history of the senses, Diane Ackerman
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-315) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Smell. The mute sense -- A map of smell -- Of violets and neurons -- The shape of smell -- Buckets of light -- The winter palace of monarchs -- The oceans inside us -- Notions and nations of sweat -- The personality of smell -- Pheromones -- Noses -- Sneezing -- Smell as camouflage -- Roses -- The fallen angel -- Ansomia -- Prodigies of smell -- A famous nose -- An offering to the gods -- Cleopatra's heirs -- Touch. The feeling bubble -- Speaking of touch -- First touches -- What is a touch? -- The code senders -- Hair -- The inner climate -- The skin has eyes -- Adventures in the touch dome -- Animals -- Tattoos -- Pain -- Easing pain -- The point of pain -- Kissing -- The hand -- Professional touchers -- Taboos -- Subliminal touch -- Taste. The social sense -- Food and sex -- The omnivore's picnic -- Of cannibalism and sacred cows -- The bloom of a taste bud -- The ultimate dinner party -- Macabre meals -- The heart of craving
- The psychopharmacology of chocolate -- In praise of vanilla -- The truth about truffles -- Ginger and other medicines -- How to make moose soup in a hole in the ground, or dine in space -- Et fugu, Brute? : Food as thrill-seeking -- Beauty and the beasts -- Hearing. The hearing heart -- Phantoms and drapes -- Jaguar of sweet laughter -- Loud noises -- The limits of hearing, the power of sound -- Deafness -- Animals -- Quicksand and whale songs -- The violin remembers -- Music and emotion -- Is music a language? -- Measure for measure -- Cathedrals in sound -- Earth calling -- Vision. The beholder's eye -- How to watch the sky -- Light -- Color -- Why leaves turn color in the fall -- Animals -- The painter's eye -- The face of beauty -- Watching a night launch of the space shuttle -- The force of an image : ring cycle -- The round walls of home -- Synesthesia. Fantasia -- Courting the muse -- Postscript
- Control code
- ocm20799461
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xix, 331 p.
- Isbn
- 9780394573359
- Lccn
- 89043416
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o20799461
- (OCoLC)20799461
- Label
- A natural history of the senses, Diane Ackerman
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-315) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Smell. The mute sense -- A map of smell -- Of violets and neurons -- The shape of smell -- Buckets of light -- The winter palace of monarchs -- The oceans inside us -- Notions and nations of sweat -- The personality of smell -- Pheromones -- Noses -- Sneezing -- Smell as camouflage -- Roses -- The fallen angel -- Ansomia -- Prodigies of smell -- A famous nose -- An offering to the gods -- Cleopatra's heirs -- Touch. The feeling bubble -- Speaking of touch -- First touches -- What is a touch? -- The code senders -- Hair -- The inner climate -- The skin has eyes -- Adventures in the touch dome -- Animals -- Tattoos -- Pain -- Easing pain -- The point of pain -- Kissing -- The hand -- Professional touchers -- Taboos -- Subliminal touch -- Taste. The social sense -- Food and sex -- The omnivore's picnic -- Of cannibalism and sacred cows -- The bloom of a taste bud -- The ultimate dinner party -- Macabre meals -- The heart of craving
- The psychopharmacology of chocolate -- In praise of vanilla -- The truth about truffles -- Ginger and other medicines -- How to make moose soup in a hole in the ground, or dine in space -- Et fugu, Brute? : Food as thrill-seeking -- Beauty and the beasts -- Hearing. The hearing heart -- Phantoms and drapes -- Jaguar of sweet laughter -- Loud noises -- The limits of hearing, the power of sound -- Deafness -- Animals -- Quicksand and whale songs -- The violin remembers -- Music and emotion -- Is music a language? -- Measure for measure -- Cathedrals in sound -- Earth calling -- Vision. The beholder's eye -- How to watch the sky -- Light -- Color -- Why leaves turn color in the fall -- Animals -- The painter's eye -- The face of beauty -- Watching a night launch of the space shuttle -- The force of an image : ring cycle -- The round walls of home -- Synesthesia. Fantasia -- Courting the muse -- Postscript
- Control code
- ocm20799461
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xix, 331 p.
- Isbn
- 9780394573359
- Lccn
- 89043416
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o20799461
- (OCoLC)20799461
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