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Book The Smell of Books

Download or read book The Smell of Books written by Hans J. Rindisbacher and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates that sense of smell plays a significant role in the history of European literature

Book Sniff  Sniff

Download or read book Sniff Sniff written by Dana Meachen Rau and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the sense of smell and how it affects the body.

Book Scent and Subversion

Download or read book Scent and Subversion written by Barbara Herman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing look at vintage perfume's powerful past, including reviews of more than 300 scents, with stunning period advertisements throughout.

Book The Smell of a Rainbow

Download or read book The Smell of a Rainbow written by Dawn Goldworm and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scented and shaped board book with seven exclusive scents by one of the world's most sought-after fragrance designers Did you know that almost everyone associates the same colors and feelings with certain smells? Dawn Goldworm has spent her career studying just that. She is one of the world's best designers of fragrance, and now she is bringing her expert nose to this scented board book. Just rub your finger along each page, and enjoy the smell of color! Dawn has created seven exclusive fragrances to evoke the stripes of the rainbow--a new, fun, and surprising way to learn about the colors.

Book The Smell Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ruth Winter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book The Smell Book written by Ruth Winter and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Smell of Old Lady Perfume

Download or read book The Smell of Old Lady Perfume written by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When sixth-grader Chela Gonzalez's father has a stroke and her grandmother moves in to help take care of the family, her world is turned upside down.

Book Smell

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sally Hewitt
  • Publisher : Qeb Publishing -- Quarto Library
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9781609928827
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Smell written by Sally Hewitt and published by Qeb Publishing -- Quarto Library. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text and photographs help young readers understand how their sense of smell works.

Book The Smell of Apples

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Behr
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780312152093
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book The Smell of Apples written by Mark Behr and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an affluent white South African family during apartheid. Its narrator is the son of an Afrikaner general and he describes his growing disillusion with the cruelty and arrogance of the whites. Set in the 1970s, the novel follows him from boyhood to soldiering in Angola, fighting the blacks.

Book The Smell of Risk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hsuan L. Hsu
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2020-12-15
  • ISBN : 1479807214
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book The Smell of Risk written by Hsuan L. Hsu and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatility, and materiality. But it is these very qualities that make olfaction a vital tool for sensing and staging environmental risk and inequality. Unlike the other senses, smell extends across space and reaches into our bodies. Hsu traces how writers, artists, and activists have deployed these embodied, biochemical qualities of smell in their efforts to critique and reshape modernity’s olfactory disparities. The Smell of Risk outlines the many ways that our differentiated atmospheres unevenly distribute environmental risk. Reading everything from nineteenth-century detective fiction and naturalist novels to contemporary performance art and memoir, Hsu takes up modernity’s differentiated atmospheres as a subject worth sniffing out. From the industrial revolution to current-day environmental crises, Hsu uses ecocriticism, geography, and critical race studies to, for example, explore Latinx communities exposed to freeway exhaust and pesticides, Asian diasporic artists’ response to racialized discourse about Asiatic odors, and the devastation settler colonialism has reaped on Indigenous smellscapes. In each instance, Hsu demonstrates the violence that air maintenance, control, and conditioning enacts on the poor and the marginalized. From nineteenth-century miasma theory theory to the synthetic chemicals that pervade twenty-first century air, Hsu takes smell at face value to offer an evocative retelling of urbanization, public health, and environmental violence.

Book Who s Making That Noise

Download or read book Who s Making That Noise written by Phillip Hawthorn and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lift flaps in this luxury edition to find out who's making that noise.

Book The Sweet Smell of Christmas

Download or read book The Sweet Smell of Christmas written by Patricia M. Scarry and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2003-09-23 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the sights and smells of Christmas with this classic scratch-and sniff book--a fragrant stocking stuffer perfect for any child! Join Little Bear as he prepares for the holidays, all the while giving readers a chance to smell six wonderful scents including apple pie, christmas tree, hot chocolate, and more! This delectable treat is a perfect way for families to spend the yuletide season.

Book It s Okay to Smell Good

Download or read book It s Okay to Smell Good written by Jason Tharp and published by Imprint. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Tharp’s It's Okay to Smell Good, the follow-up to his hit picture book It’s Okay to Be a Unicorn, introduces the new, hilarious character: Panda Cat, who lives in a world where smelling bad is a good thing! Panda Cat begins each day by brushing his teeth with garlic toothpaste, combing rotten eggs through his hair, and enjoying a breakfast of spoiled milk and a rotten apple. In Smellville, it’s cool to be stinky. But when he tries to invent the stinkiest smell ever for the science fair, it backfires—because it smells good. And Panda Cat . . . likes it? How will he tell his friends? Or his hero, Albert Einstink—the scientist behind the theory of stinkativity? It’s Okay to Smell Good tells kids young and old that you’re free to like what you like, no matter how it smells. An Imprint Book Praise for It’s Okay to Smell Good: “Tharp's good-natured fable is bright and rainbow-y . . . will resonate with any who have felt “other.”” —Kirkus Reviews

Book The Smell of Fresh Rain

Download or read book The Smell of Fresh Rain written by Barney Shaw and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smell is the most emotional and evocative of our senses: it can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than a photograph – so why is it so little understood? Armed with a hungry curiosity and a willingness to self-experiment, author Barney Shaw goes in search of the hidden meanings of smells. Using plain words to describe what he finds, he investigates the chemistry, psychology, history and future of this underappreciated sense. Journeying around boatyards, perfume shops and memories, Shaw opens your nose to the world, breaking down "chords" of smells into their component notes and through them revealing new ways of understanding the spaces through which we move. An investigation into the biology, psychology and history of smell, and a search for effective ways to put into words scents that we instantly relate to, but find strangely ineffable, THE SMELL OF FRESH RAIN includes a 200-entry thesaurus of succinct descriptions of common smells.

Book Revelations in Air

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jude Stewart
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2021-10-26
  • ISBN : 0143135996
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Revelations in Air written by Jude Stewart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary, strange, and startlingly beautiful exploration of smell, the least understood of our five senses The nose on your face is the Buckingham Palace Guard of your body, the maitre d' of all taste, as well as the seducer of your imagination, and memory—and Jude Stewart has charmed them all into a wicked, poetic and illuminating tour of their mysterious domains. —Jack Hitt, author of Bunch of Amateurs Overlapping with taste yet larger in scope, smell is the sense that comes closest to pure perception. Smell can collapse space and time, unlocking memories and transporting us to worlds both new and familiar. Yet as clearly as each of us can recognize different smells--the bright tang of citrus, freshly sharpened pencils, parched earth after rain--few of us understand how and why we smell. In Revelations in Air, Jude Stewart takes us on a fascinating journey into the weird and wonderful world of smell. Beginning with lessons on the incredible biology and history of how our noses work, Stewart teaches us how to use our noses like experts. Once we're properly equipped and ready to sniff, Stewart explores a range of smells—from lavender, cut grass and hot chocolate to cannabis and old books—using smell as a lens into art, history, science, and more. With an engaging colorful design and exercises for readers to refine their own skills, Revelations in Air goes beyond science or history or chemistry--it's a doorway into the surprising, pleasurable, and unfamiliar landscape of smell.

Book By the Smoke and the Smell

Download or read book By the Smoke and the Smell written by Thad Vogler and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirits expert Thad Vogler, owner of the James Beard Award–winning Bar Agricole, takes readers around the world, celebrating the vivid characters who produce hand-made spirits like rum, scotch, cognac, and mezcal. From the mountains of Mexico and the forbidden distilleries of Havana, to the wilds of Scotland and the pastoral corners of France and beyond, this adventure will change how you think about your drink. Thad Vogler is one of the most important people in the beverage industry today. He’s a man on a mission to bring “grower spirits”—spirits with provenance, made in the traditional way by individuals rather than by mass conglomerates—to the public eye, before they disappear completely. We care so much about the food we eat: how it is made, by whom, and where. Yet we are far less careful about the spirits we drink, often allowing the biggest brands with the most marketing dollars to control the narrative. In By the Smoke and the Smell, Vogler is here to set the record straight. This remarkable memoir is the first book to ask the tough questions about the booze industry: where our spirits come from, who makes them, and at what cost. By the Smoke and the Smell is also a celebration of the people and places behind the most singular, life-changing spirits on earth. Vogler takes us to Normandy, where we drink calvados with lovable Vikings; to Cuba, a country where Vogler lived for a time, and that has so much more to offer than cigars, classic cars, and mojitos; to the jagged cliffs and crystal-clear lochs of Scotland; to Northern Ireland, Oaxaca, Armagnac, Cognac, Kentucky, and California. Alternately hilarious and heartfelt, Vogler’s memoir will open your eyes to the rich world of traditional, small-scale distilling—and in the process, it will completely change the way you think about and buy spirits.

Book The Sweet Smell of Home

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leonard F. Chana
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2009-06-22
  • ISBN : 9780816528196
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book The Sweet Smell of Home written by Leonard F. Chana and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-taught artist in several mediums who became known for stippling, Leonard Chana captured the essence of the Tohono OÕodham people. He incorporated subtle details of OÕodham life into his art, and his images evoke the smells, sounds, textures, and tastes of the Sonoran desertÑall the while depicting the values of his people. He began his career by creating cards and soon was lending his art to posters and logos for many community-based Native organizations. Winning recognition from these groups, his work was soon actively sought by them. ChanaÕs work also appears on the covers and as interior art in a number of books on southwestern and American Indian topics. The Sweet Smell of Home is an autobiographical work, written in ChanaÕs own voice that unfolds through oral history interviews with anthropologist Susan Lobo. Chana imparts the story of his upbringing and starting down the path toward a career as an artist. Balancing humor with a keen eye for cultural detail, he tells us about life both on and off the reservation. Eighty pieces of artÑ26 in colorÑgrace the text, and Chana explains both the impetus for and the evolution of each piece. Leonard Chana was a peopleÕs artist who celebrated the extraordinary heroism of common peopleÕs lives. The Sweet Smell of Home now celebrates this unique artist whose words and art illuminate not only his own remarkable life, but also the land and lives of the Tohono OÕodham people

Book A Spectacular Catastrophe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dushka Zapata
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-04-29
  • ISBN : 9781545144343
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book A Spectacular Catastrophe written by Dushka Zapata and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-29 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dushka Zapata comes across any perspective in life that she finds useful or that contributes to her suffering less, she writes about it. This book is a collection of those lessons she hopes prove useful to others. This book is not intended to be read cover to cover but rather in snippets of time across the day.