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Free Download The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell, UK Edition by Jonas Olofsson
English | January 7th, 2025 | ISBN: 000871858X | 224 pages | True EPUB | 0.43 MB
Human olfaction – the sense of smell – enables us to appreciate food and drink, it warns us of dangers and it makes our environments more enjoyable. However, olfaction is one of our least explored sensory systems. Until now.

Free Download The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell-and the Extraordinary Power of the Nose by Jonas Olofsson
English | January 7th, 2025 | ISBN: 0063394677 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 0.73 MB
For readers of James Nestor and Mary Roach, a fascinating tour of the science behind our most essential sense-and all we unleash when we stop and literally smell the roses

Free Download Lyall Watson, "Jacobson’s Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell"
English | 2000 | pages: 268 | ISBN: 0393332918, 0393049086 | EPUB | 2,9 mb
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. So why do we persist in dismissing the nose as a blunt instrument?

Free Download Sweet Smell of Success (BFI Film Classics) by James Naremore
English | July 6, 2010 | ISBN: 1844572889 | True EPUB | 96 pages | 9.4 MB
The highest artistic achievement of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, an innovative production company that emerged in Hollywood at the end of the classic studio system, Sweet Smell of Success (1957) portended the collapse of Breen-Office censorship and was the first US entertainment film to depict McCarthy-style exploitation of the press. It also presented an unusually dark view of the culture of celebrity, presaging developments of an even darker kind in our own day. Sweet Smell’s frightening portrayal of a newspaperman loosely based on Walter Winchell and its unstinting depiction of corruption and sleaze in the world of Broadway theatres and nightclubs have given it a legendary reputation; critics and film-makers continue to praise the whiplash dialogue of Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, the seductive location photography of James Wong Howe, the stylish direction of Alexander Mackendrick and the disturbing performances of Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis as ruthless gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker and his ambitious but doomed acolyte, Sidney Falco.

Free Download Stinking Philosophy!: Smell Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness by Benjamin Young
English | August 6, 2024 | ISBN: 0262548887 | 248 pages | PDF | 2.11 Mb
The nature of olfaction; its importance for understanding perennial issues of philosophy of mind, perception, and consciousness; and its implications for cognitive neuroscience.

Free Download Mitchell Symons, "Why Do Farts Smell Like Rotten Eggs?"
English | 2012 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 1862307490, 0385615612 | EPUB | 6,8 mb
EVER WONDERED …Why we burp? What a wotsit is? Whether lemmings really jump off cliffs? Why vomit always contains carrots? And why do farts smell like rotten eggs? No subject is too strange and no trivia too tough for Mitchell Symons, who has the answer to these crazy questions, and many more.

Free Download The Official Patient’s Sourcebook on Smell and Taste Disorders By James N. Parker, Philip M. Parker
2002 | 120 Pages | ISBN: 0597831920 | PDF | 4 MB
This book has been created for patients who have decided to make education and research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it also gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to smell and taste disorders (also ageusia; anosmia; hypogeusia; Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism and Anosmia; hyposmia), from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects the fact that the sourcebook draws from public, academic, government, and peer-reviewed research. Selected readings from various agencies are reproduced to give you some of the latest official information available to date on smell and taste disorders. Given patients’ increasing sophistication in using the Internet, abundant references to reliable Internet-based resources are provided throughout this sourcebook. Where possible, guidance is provided on how to obtain free-of-charge, primary research results as well as more detailed information via the Internet. E-book and electronic versions of this sourcebook are fully interactive with each of the Internet sites mentioned (clicking on a hyperlink automatically opens your browser to the site indicated). Hard-copy users of this sourcebook can type cited Web addresses directly into their browsers to obtain access to the corresponding sites. In addition to extensive references accessible via the Internet, chapters include glossaries of technical or uncommon terms.

Free Download The Anthropology of Smell
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031617584 | 159 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This book discusses the meaning of smell from a socio-cultural perspective and brings important considerations of smell and olfaction beyond anatomy and physiology in an erudite, reader-friendly style. It addresses ideas about smell and odor in culturally diverse contexts; pays attention to the subtle ways in which smell is expressed; treats smell as part of memory, prejudice, rumor, and sexuality; offers insights into the role of smell in religion, literature, film art, intangible cultural heritage, and museum practices, with particular attention to the challenges posed by historical smells; describes the legal regulation of smell and the background to scent marketing that seeks to influence consumer buying habits, adding a unique and practical dimension to the content. In addition to philosophical and medical historical aspects, the book offers insights into the evolution, diagnosis and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the human sense of smell and illustrates how our environment and societal influences shape our sensory perceptions and thus our attitudes and interpretation of the olfactory world around us. From an anthropological perspective, the book looks at olfactory heritage, cultural traditions, and the symbolism of the nose in different societies. Overall, it offers a comprehensive and thought-provoking cultural examination of the sense of smell ― a sense that is often underestimated ― while broadening our understanding of the world of smell and its role in our lives.

Free Download Smell: A Very Short Introduction (Audiobook)
English | July 31, 2020 | ASIN: B08D5M59PJ | M4B@128 kbps | 3h 56m | 217 MB
Author: Matthew Cobb | Narrator: Dennis Kleinman
Our sense of smell – or olfaction as it is technically known – is our most enigmatic sense. It can conjure up memories, taking us back to very specific places and emotions, whilst powerful smells can induce strong feelings of hunger or nausea. In the animal kingdom smell can be used to find food, a mate, or a home; to sense danger; and to send and receive complex messages with other members of a species. Yet despite its fundamental importance in our mental life and in the existence of all animals, our scientific understanding of how smell works is limited.