A Natural History of the Senses by Ackerman, Diane -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Other Books by This Author About the Author Title Page Copyright Permissions Acknowledgments Epigraph Personal Acknowledgments Contents Introduction

In Every Sense

Smell

The Mute Sense A Map of Smell Of Violets and Neurons The Shape of Smell Buckets of Light The Winter Palace of Monarchs The Oceans Inside Us Notions and Nations of Sweat The Personality of Smell Pheromones Noses Sneezing Smell as Camouflage Roses The Fallen Angel Anosmia Prodigies of Smell A Famous Nose An Offering to the Gods Cleopatra’s Heirs

Touch

The Feeling Bubble Speaking of Touch First Touches What Is A Touch? The Code Senders Hair The Inner Climate The Skin Has Eyes Adventures in the Touch Dome Animals Tattoos Pain Easing Pain The Point of Pain Kissing The Hand Professional Touchers Taboos Subliminal Touch

Taste

The Social Sense Food and Sex The Omnivore’s Picnic Of Cannibalism and Sacred Cows The Bloom of A Taste Bud The Ultimate Dinner Party Macabre Meals The Heart of Craving The Psychopharmacology of Chocolate In Praise of Vanilla The Truth About Truffles Ginger, and Other Medicines How To Make Moose Soup in a Hole in the Ground, or Dine in Space Et Fugu, Brute? Food as Thrill-Seeking Beauty and the Beasts

Hearing

The Hearing Heart Phantoms and Drapes Jaguar of Sweet Laughter Loud Noises The Limits of Hearing, the Power of Sound Deafness Animals Quicksand and Whale Songs The Violin Remembers Music and Emotion Is Music A Language? Measure for Measure Cathedrals In Sound Earth Calling

Vision

The Beholder’s Eye How to Watch the Sky Light Color Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall Animals The Painter’s Eye The Face of Beauty Watching A Night Launch of the Space Shuttle The Force of an Image: Ring Cycle The Round Walls of Home

Synesthesia

Fantasia Courting the Muse

Postscript Further Reading

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