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008			180514b2017 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781785781131
082			_a152.166 SHA-B
100			_aShaw, Barney
245			_aThe smell of fresh rain : _bthe unexpected pleasures of our most elusive sense / _cBarney Shaw
260			_aLondon _bIcon Books _c2017
300			_a296 p.
365			_aINR _b599.00.
500			_aSmell 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.
650			_aSmell
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