To women the world over, perfume means glamour, and in the world of perfume, Jean-Claude Ellena is a superstar. In this one-of-a-kind book, the legendary Ellena himself takes the reader through the doors of his laboratory and explains the process of creating precious fragrances, revealing key methods and "recipes" involved in this mysterious alchemy. Perfume is an extremely com...(展开全部)

To women the whole world over, perfume means glamour, and in the world of perfume Jean-Claude Ellena is a superstar. In this one-of-a-kind book, the master himself takes you through the doors of his laboratory and explains the process of creating precious fragrances, revealing the key methods and recipes involved in this mysterious alchemy. Ellena provides an insider's tour int...(展开全部)

• How many smells are there? And how many molecules would it take to create every smell in nature, from roses to stinky feet? • Who was the bigger scent freak: the perfume-obsessed Richard Wagner or Emily Dickinson, with her creepy passion for flowers? • By scenting the air in stores, are retailers turning us into subliminally controlled shopping zombies? • Were Smell-O-Vision ...(展开全部)

• How many smells are there? And how many molecules would it take to create every smell in nature, from roses to stinky feet? • Who was the bigger scent freak: the perfume-obsessed Richard Wagner or Emily Dickinson, with her creepy passion for flowers? • By scenting the air in stores, are retailers turning us into subliminally controlled shopping zombies? • Were Smell-O-Vision ...(展开全部)

韩炳哲（Byung-Chul Han） 德国新生代思想家。1959年生于韩国首尔，80年代在韩国学习冶金学，之后远渡重洋到德国学习哲学、文学和天主教神学。1994年，以研究海德格尔的论文获得弗莱堡大学博士学位。2000年任教于瑞士巴塞尔大学，2010年任教于卡尔斯鲁厄建筑与艺术大学，2012年任教于德国柏林艺术大学。 西班牙《国家报》（El País）誉其为“德国哲学界的一颗新星”。作品被译成十几种语言，在世界范围内引起广泛关注。 清新的文风，清晰的思想，深察洞识，切确而犀利的论述，让韩炳哲对于数字时代人类精神状况的批判，显得尤为重要且富于启发。

The Robin has now been voted Britain's favourite bird – a friendly presence in thousands of gardens, year round. Its life was hardly understood when David Lack – who has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist – started his scientific observations of robins while a schoolteacher at Dartington. It was Lack who established that robins sing to defend their territory; ...(展开全部)

The Clay Sanskrit Library has recently set out to change the scene by making available well-translated dual-language (English and Sanskrit) editions of popular Sanskritic texts for the public. The Buddhist monk Ashva*ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayodhya. This is the earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called...(展开全部)

The Nobel Prize winner offers brilliant proof that "no living creature, not even man, has achieved in the center of his sphere, what the bee has achieved." From their amazingly intricate feats of architecture to their intrinsic sense of self-sacrifice, Maeterlinck takes a "bee's-eye view" of the most orderly society on Earth.