Tag: Scent

The Emperor of Scent A True Story of Perfume and Obsession


Free Download The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession by Chandler Burr, Jamie Renell, Tantor Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09WZ96PY5 | 12 hours and 8 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 333 Mb
"A brilliant, feisty scientist at the center of a nasty, back-stabbing, utterly absorbing, cliff-hanging scramble for the Nobel Prize. The Emperor of Scent is a quirky, wonderful book." -John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge work in biology, chemistry, and physics, Turin used his obsession with perfume and his eerie gift for smell to turn the cloistered worlds of the smell business and science upside down, leading to a solution to the last great mystery of the senses: how the nose works.

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The Scent of the Father Essay on the Limits of Life and Science in Sub-Saharan Africa


Free Download Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, "The Scent of the Father: Essay on the Limits of Life and Science in Sub-Saharan Africa "
English | ISBN: 1509551387 | 2023 | 200 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including The Invention of Africa, have been hugely influential across many disciplines and established his reputation as one of the essential postcolonial thinkers of our time.

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