Roses, musk, incense and myrrh--smells have always been associated with magic, healing and sexual power. Yet what is experienced as fragrant varies dramatically from one culture to the other and from one epoch to the next. Aroma uncovers the secret history of smells: from the perfumed banquets of ancient Greece to "the best blueberry flavor ever made", from the sweet "odor ...(展开全部)

Smell is a social phenomenon, given particular meanings and values by different cultures. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or divide them, empower or disempower. The authors argue that the sociology of smell is repressed in the modern West, and its socia...(展开全部)

'The Smell Culture Reader' is a must read ... it will help you understand, and perhaps better enjoy, the smelly world around you.' Anya's Garden of Natural Perfumery website 'Scholarly and profound, the anthology is a must-read for the professional. Anyone engaged in the science, creation, manufacture, sales or study of aroma and fragrance will find it an invaluable source of i...(展开全部)

Based on the blog with more than two million loyal fans, a beautiful, heartfelt, funny, and inspiring collection of photographs and stories capturing the spirit of a city Now an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Humans of New York began in the summer of 2010, when photographer Brandon Stanton set out to create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, ...(展开全部)

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...(展开全部)

Should digital technology be viewed as a new life form, sharing our ecosystem and coevolving with us? Are humans defining technology, or is technology defining humans? In this book, Edward Ashford Lee considers the case that we are less in control of the trajectory of technology than we think. It shapes us as much as we shape it, and it may be more defensible to think of techno...(展开全部)

亚当·卢瑟福 英国遗传学家、科普作家，伦敦大学学院遗传学博士，BBC科学节目主持人。曾在權威学术杂志《自然》工作十余年，并长期为《卫报》等媒体撰稿。 卢瑟福致力于科学普及，参与制作并主持《细胞》《基因密码》《末日之战》等电影的科学顾问。 代表作有《万物灵长》《我们人类的基因》。

亚当·卢瑟福 英国遗传学家、科普作家，伦敦大学学院遗传学博士，BBC科学节目主持人。曾在權威学术杂志《自然》工作十余年，并长期为《卫报》等媒体撰稿。 卢瑟福致力于科学普及，参与制作并主持《细胞》《基因密码》《末日之战》等电影的科学顾问。 代表作有《万物灵长》《我们人类的基因》。

Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries―panic, exhaustion, heat, noise―and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire w...(展开全部)

Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries―panic, exhaustion, heat, noise―and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire w...(展开全部)