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Smells
Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual extinction, and we go to great lengths to eliminate smells from our environment, suppressing body odour, bad breath and other smells. Living in a relatively odour-free environment has numbed us to the importance that smells have always had in human history and culture. In this major new book Robert Muchembled restores smell to its rightful place as one of our most important senses and examines the transformation of smells in the West from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 19th century. He shows that in earlier centuries, the air in towns and cities w...
The Biosphere, Problems and Solutions
The Biosphere, Problems and Solutions
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
The irresistible, ever-curious, and always bestselling Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm that people carry around inside.
Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
This revised edition of the original reference standard for urban legends provides an updated anthology of common myths and stories, and presents expanded coverage of international legends and tales shared and popularized online. From roasted babies to vanishing hitchhikers to housewives in football helmets, this exhaustive and highly readable encyclopedia provides descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, examines legend themes, and explains scholarly approaches to the genre. Revised and expanded to include updated versions of the entries from the award-winning first edition, this work provides additional entries on a wide range of new topics that include terroris...
氣味文明史：從惡魔的呼吸到愉悅的香氣，一段文藝復興起始的人類嗅覺開發史
嗅覺能警示危險逼近，讓我們辨識最佳性伴侶， 但若要你放棄一種感官，很多人卻會選擇它。 ◎笛卡兒－尤更斯獎得主、法國巴黎十三大學榮譽教授力作 ◎當代法文翻譯名家邱瑞鑾最新譯作 你的臭味和我的臭味定義不同 在數百年前，當衛生下水道尚未發明，當各種香氛還沒被大量開發之前，人類活在一個「氣味」環繞的世界。由於人對氣味的感受，常常是後天形塑的，不同時代的人，對氣味的反應可能也相當不同。比如我們看到法國君主可以在宮殿裡邊拉屎邊自在地和臣子開會，而農村地區也以家門前高高的堆肥來彰顯...
Guide du bon usage du médicament
Le Guide du bon usage du médicament offre à tous les praticiens, quels que soient leur discipline et leur mode d'exercice, une information claire et rigoureuse sur plus de 3 500 médicaments. Les auteurs de cet ouvrage de référence se sont basés à la fois sur les référentiels, recommandations et consensus actuels et sur leur pratique quotidienne pour guider le praticien dans les grandes étapes de la prise en charge du patient. Ordonné selon les principales disciplines médicales, l'ouvrage expose, pour chaque maladie, le diagnostic, les moyens thérapeutiques disponibles et la stratégie de prescription. Les médicaments, présentés par classes thérapeutiques, sont détaillés se...
