Shaw Barney
Shaw Barney - The Smell Of Fresh Rain The Unexpected Pleasures Of Our Most Elusive Sense - Hardcover
Shaw Barney - The Smell Of Fresh Rain The Unexpected Pleasures Of Our Most Elusive Sense - Hardcover
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Description: 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.
Title: The Smell Of Fresh Rain The Unexpected Pleasures Of Our Most Elusive Sense
Author(s): Shaw Barney
Publisher: Icon Books
Barcode: 9781785781131
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 9/7/2017
Category: Popular Psychology
Description: 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.
Title: The Smell Of Fresh Rain The Unexpected Pleasures Of Our Most Elusive Sense
Author(s): Shaw Barney
Publisher: Icon Books
Barcode: 9781785781131
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 9/7/2017
Category: Popular Psychology
