Under Your Nose
The Pleasures and Politics of Smell
$32.30
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
20 April 2027
Summary
Why do some smells comfort us while others repel us – and what does that reveal about who we are? Social media’s ‘smell queen’ Dr Ally Louks reveals the secrets of our most overlooked sense.
Take a deep sniff. Before you have time to think, your body will react. Our noses have around 400 smell receptors that can process up to a trillion different smells. But it is in our brains that the magic happens: smells transport, attract, please and seduce us, but they also disg…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784746421 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1784746428 |
| Author: | Dr Ally Louks |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Chatto & Windus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 20 April 2027 |
| Weight: | 484g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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Dr Ally Louks
Dr Ally Louks is a literary scholar and public academic who received enormous media attention after posting about completing her Cambridge PhD thesis, ‘Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose.’ She has since cemented her status as the most prominent expert on the social significance of smell and is invested in bringing academic work to public audiences through social media, broadcasting, and public writing. She loves nothing more than literally stopping to smell the roses with her dog, Maple.
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