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What the nose knows : the science of scent in everyday life Cover Image Book

What the nose knows : the science of scent in everyday life / Avery Gilbert.

Gilbert, Avery N. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781400082346
  • ISBN: 140008234X
  • Physical Description: xiii, 290 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2008]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-280) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Chapter 1 Odors in the Mind: Making sense of scents 1 -- Chapter 2 Molecules That Matter: The key ingredients of nature's chemistry set 25 -- Chapter 3 Freaks, Geeks, and Prodigies: The wide range of olfactory ability 48 -- Chapter 4 Art of the Sniff: How the brain edits what the nose detects 74 -- Chapter 5 A Nose for the Mouth: Cooking, eating, and evolution 91 -- Chapter 6 Malevolence of Malodor: When bad smells happen to good people 111 -- Chapter 7 Olfactory Imagination: Smell and creative genius 126 -- Chapter 8 Hollywood Psychophysics: Scent and cinema 147 -- Chapter 9 Zombies at the Mall: Leading consumers by the nose 170 -- Chapter 10 Recovered Memories: Proust's soggy madeleine 189 -- Chapter 11 Smell Museum: Preserving odors from the past 205 -- Chapter 12 Our Olfactory Destiny: The future of smelling 225.

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