The Scent Trail: A Journey of the Senses
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Castles in the Air: The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion
| Author | Judy Corbett |
| ISBN | 0091897319 |
When Judy Corbett caught sight of a great stone mansion in the craggy wilds of north Wales, she had little idea of the adventure on which she was about to embark. She and her husband, Peter, had long dreamed of buying an old ruin and escaping the pace and excesses of modern life. But it was only when they had...
| Author | P.L. Travers |
| ISBN | 0850307864 |
Years ago, when I was in my own dark wood wandering and could not find my way, serendipity sent What the Bee Knows: Reflections On Myth, Symbol and Story my way. I immersed myself in P.L. Travers feminine-centered retelling of Greek myths, her essays, poems and interviews. Her essay titled, Re-Stroying...
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
| Author | Edward Kritzler |
| ISBN | 0385513984 |
At the end of the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition forced many Jews to flee the country. The most adventurous among them took to the high seas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearing names such as the Prophet Samuel, Queen Esther, and Shield of Abraham, they attacked and plundered the Spanish...
| Author | Joan D. Chittister |
| ISBN | 1580511430 |
Called to Question is Sr. Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Centered around a series of conversations with spiritual writers featured in her private journal, Sr. Joan looks at the common questions or dimensions of life as we know them in our daily lives-not answers as we've...
| Author | Barbara Sjoholm |
| ISBN | 1593761597 |
A Frequent traveler to Northern Europe, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to explore a region that had long intrigued her.
Sjoholm first travels to Kiruna, Sweden, to see the Ice Hotel under construction and to meet the ice artists who make its rooms into environmental art. Traveling to the...
| Author | Thomas Graboys |
| ISBN | 1402753411 |
At the age of 49, Dr. Thomas Graboys had reached the pinnacle of his career and was leading a charmed life. A nationally renowned Boston cardiologist popular for his attention to the hearts and souls of his patients, Graboys was part of “The Cardiology Dream Team” summoned to treat Boston Celtics...
| Author | Connie Rice |
| ISBN | 1416575006 |
From one of the nation’s most influential civil rights attorneys—second cousin of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—a noble, hard-hitting memoir chronicling the life of a fiercely powerful woman dedicated to public service.
Connie Rice has taken on the bus system, the...
| Author | Julia Fox Garrison |
| ISBN | 0061120618 |
Just an ordinary day . . .
You get up, fix breakfast for your three-year-old son, drive yourself to work -- a day like any other. You're running late for a meeting, and as you hurry down the hall, the light is getting brighter and brighter, and suddenly your vision explodes and . . . you're gone.
When...
A legend, a land once seen and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a mystery for thousands of years. And to the Nazis, Thule was an icy Eden, birthplace of Nordic “purity.” In this exquisitely written narrative, Joanna Kavenna wanders in search of Thule, to Shetland, Iceland,...
| Author | R.D. Rosen |
| ISBN | 1595581650 |
A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. Over a hundred years after Veryl's ancestors, Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight, hand-raised two baby buffalo to help save the species...
Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume
| Author | Mandy Aftel |
| ISBN | 1586857029 |
Someone saw me reading this book, and the comment was, "But you don't even like perfumes!"
That's partly true. I don't like synthetic perfumes. I don't like being bombarded by someone's overzealous application of scent. I don't like synthetic fragrance. (Every time someone tells me their...
Blue Eyed Salaryman: From world traveller to lifer at Mitsubishi
| Author | Niall Murtagh |
| ISBN | 1861977891 |
Why on earth would anyone give up a life on the open road for the regimen of a vast Japanese conglomerate? And is it really so different in Japan from everywhere else? Niall Murtagh spent years as a world traveller - hitchhiking to Istanbul, bussing to Kathmandu and crossing the Atlantic in a home-built...
Lost White Tribes: The End of Privilege and the Last Colonials in Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Brazil, Haiti, Namibia, and Guadeloupe
| Author | Riccardo Orizio |
| ISBN | 0743211979 |
Over 300 hundred years ago, the first European colonists landed in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to found permanent outposts of the great empires. This epic migration continued until after World War II, when some of these tropical colonies became independent black nations and the white colonials...
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe
| Author | Colm Tóibín |
| ISBN | 0679758550 |
Colm Toibin is one of Ireland's most distinguished young writers; he is also a lapsed Catholic. Yet over a succession of Holy Weeks, Toibin found himself traveling to places where Catholicism still possesses mystery and power, from Poland to Lithuania, from Lourdes to Santiago, and from Croatia to...
Held at a Distance: My Rediscovery of Ethiopia
| Author | Rebecca G. Haile |
| ISBN | 0897335562 |
This powerful book gives readers a chance to experience Ethiopia through the personal experience of a writer who is both Ethiopian and American. It takes readers beyond headlines and stereotypes to a deeper understanding of the country. This is an absorbing account of the author’s return trip to...
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life
Everything about the sense of smell fascinates us, from its power to evoke memories to its ability to change our moods and influence our behavior. Yet because it is the least understood of the senses, myths abound. For example, contrary to popular belief, the human nose is almost as sensitive as the noses...
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent
| Author | Jean-Claude Ellena |
| ISBN | 1559709111 |
My perfume collection recently expanded, in a single heady evening, to thirteen bottles. My collection of perfume books expands more slowly - they are more unpredictable beasts than their subjects.
When I impulse-bought 'Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent' on Amazon, I think I thought that it...
The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell
| Author | Rachel Herz |
| ISBN | 0060825375 |
Shakespeare wrote that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But if you cannot smell, does the rose lose its sweetness?
The first and definitive book on the psychology of smell, The Scent of Desire traces the importance of smell in our lives, from nourishment to procreation to our relationships...
The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York
| Author | Chandler Burr |
| ISBN | 0805080376 |
I finished this book a while back. I'm not sure what to say except that Chandler Burr knows the perfume industry inside out. Knowing that, it seems odd to me that there are no scandals, everyone behaves perfectly well and fairly. This just isn't how business works, this is how PR works. Another revenue...
Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume
| Author | Barbara Herman |
| ISBN | 0762784385 |
Let Scent and Subversion take you for a whiff on the wild side of 20th century perfume.
Perfume has been -- and continues to be -- subversive. By playing with gender conventions, highlighting the ripe smells of the human body, or celebrating queer and louche identities, 20th-century perfume...
God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion
| Author | Guy Consolmagno |
| ISBN | 0787994669 |
In God's Mechanics, Brother Guy tells the stories of those who identify with the scientific mindset--so-called "techies"--while practicing religion. A full fledged techie himself, he relates some classic philosophical reflections, his interviews with dozens of fellow techies, and his own personal...
The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy
| Author | Philip Marsden |
| ISBN | 0007173458 |
A peculiar chapter in history: the calamitous reign of a unifying Ethiopian emperor who was also a raging psychotic, and the increasing calamity of the British effort to rescue hostages from him (which could probably have been achieved without bloodshed by not being arrogant jerks in the first place,...
The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell
| Author | Luca Turin |
| ISBN | 0061133833 |
The Secret of Scent is a book about science by way of art, in which the author's passion for perfume leads him to the scientific mystery of what makes one molecule smell of garlic while another smells of rose.
Readers who know Luca Turin as the lively central figure in Chandler Burr's The Emperor...
The Perfume Lover: A Personal History of Scent
The Perfume Lover is a candid personal account of the process of composing a fragrance, filled with sensual scent descriptions, sexy tidbits, and historical vignettes.
What if the most beautiful night in your life inspired a perfume?
When Denyse Beaulieu was growing up near Montreal,...
