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What the nose knows : the science of scent in everyday life / Avery Gilbert.

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New York : Crown Publishers, c2008.

xiii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.

Odors in the mind : making sense of scents -- The molecules that matter : the key ingredients of nature's chemistry set -- Freaks, geeks, and prodigies : the wide range of olfactory ability -- The art of the sniff : how the brain edits what the nose detects -- A nose for the mouth : cooking, eating, and evolution -- The malevolence of malodor : when bad smells happen to good people -- The olfactory imagination : smell and creative genius -- Hollywood psychophysics : scent and cinema -- Zombies at the mall : leading consumers by the nose -- Recovered memories : Proust's soggy madeleine -- The smell museum : preserving odors from the past -- Our olfactory destiny : the future of smelling.

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