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A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SENSES

FURTHER READING

GENERAL

Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon Press, 1969.

Bates, H. E. The Purple Plain. London: Penguin Books, 1974.

Bodanis, David. The Secret House. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1986.

Bonner, John Tyler. The Scale of Nature. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.

Brash, R. How Did It Begin? Superstitions and Their Romantic Origins. Australia: Longmans, Green & Co., Ltd., 1965.

Braudel, Fernand. The Structures of Everyday Life. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

Buddenbrock, Wolfgang von. The Senses. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press.

Campbell, Joseph. The Power of Myth. Betty Sue Flowers, ed., introduction by Bill Moyers. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1988.

Carcopino, Jerome. Daily Life in Ancient Rome. Harry T. Lowell, ed. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1940.

Carr, Donald E. The Forgotten Senses. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1971.

Dubkin, Leonard. The White Lady. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1952.

Eiseley, Loren. The Immense Journey. New York: Random House, Inc.; Vintage Books, 1957.

--. The Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley. Kenneth Hever, ed. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1987.

Froman, Robert. The Many Human Senses. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1966.

Gass, William. On Being Blue. Boston: Godine, 1976.

Glassner, Barry. Bodies: Why We Look the Way We Do. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988.

Guiness, Alma E., ed. ABC's of the Human Body. Pleasantville, New York: Reader's Digest Books, 1987.

Huizinga, Johan. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1955.

Huysmans, J.K. Against Nature. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.

Lingis, Alphonso. Excesses: Eros and Culture. Albany, New York: State University of New York, 1978.

Maeterlinck, Maurice. The Life of the Bee. New York: New American Library, 1954.

Martin, Russell. Matters Gray & White. New York: Fawcett/Crest. 1986.

Milne, Lorus and Margery. The Senses of Animals and Men. New York: Atheneum, 1964.

Morris, Desmond. Bodywatching. New York: Crown, 1985.

_. Catwatching. New York: Crown, 1986.

_. Dogwatehing. New York: Crown, 1987.

_. Intimate Behavior. New York: Bantam, 1973.

_. Manwatching. New York: Abrams, 1977.

Murchie, Guy. The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science and Philosophy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978.

Panati, Charles. The Browser's Book of Beginnings. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.

__. Extraordinary Origin of Everyday Things. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

Parker, Arthur C. Indian How Book. New York: Dover, 1954.

Polhemus, Ted, ed. Th. Body Reader: Social Aspects of the Human Body. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.

Poole, Robert M., ed. The Incredible Machine. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1986.

Rilke, Rainer Maria, trans. G. Craig Houston. Where Silence Reigns: Selected Prose. New York: New Directions, 1978.

Rivlin, Robert, and Karen Gravelle. Deciphering the Senses: The Expanding World of Human Perception. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.

Robinson, Howard F., et al. Colors in the Wild. Washington, D.C.: National Wildlife Federation, 1985.

Sagan, Carl. The Dragon of Eden. New York: Random House, Inc., 1977.

Selzer, Richard. Mortal Lessons. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976.

Smith, Anthony. The Body. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.

Thompson, D'Arcy W. On Growth and Form. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, 1961.

van der Post, Laurens. The Heart of the Hunter. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.

Von Frisch, Karl. Animal Architecture. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

Walker, Stephen. Animal Thoughts. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1983.

Walsh, William S. Curiosities of Popular Customs. London: J. P. Lippincott Co., 1897.

Wilentz, Joan Steen. Th. Senses of Man. New York: Crowell, 1968.

Wilson, Edward O. Biophilia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1984.

SMELL

Bedichek, Roy. The Sense of Smell. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1960.

Bloch, Iwan. Odoratus Sexualis. New York: New York Anthropological Society, 1937.

Burton, Robert. The Language of Smell. London: Routledge & Kogan Paul, 1976.

Corbin, Alain. The Foul and the Fragrant Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Erb, Russell C. The Common Scents of Smell. New York: World Publishing Co., 1968.

Ferenczi, Sandor. Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality. New York: W. W. Norton, 1968.

Gombrowicz, Witold. Diary, Vol. l Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1988.

Harkness, Jack. The Makers of Heavenly Roses. London: Souvenir Press, 1985.

Moncrieff, R. W. Odours. London: William Heinemann Medical Books Ltd., 1970.

Morris, Edwin T. Fragrance. New York: Scribner's, 1986.

Muller, Julia, et al. Fragrance Guide (Feminine Notes). London: Johnson Publications, n.d.

_. with Dr. Hans Brauer and Joachim Mensing. The H & R Book of Perfume. London: Johnson Publication., n.d.

Ray, Richard, and Michael MacCarkey. Roses. Tucson, Arizona: H. P. Books, 1981.

Suskind, Patrick. Perfume. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1987.

West, Paul. The Place in Flowers Where Pollen Rests. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1988.

TOUCH

Allen, J. W. T., ed. and trans. The Customs of the Swahili People. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981

BBC/WGBH. "A Touch of Sensitivity." December 9, 1980.

Beardsley, Timothy. "Benevolent Bradykinins." Scientific American, July 1988.

Fellman, Sandi, ed. The Japanese Tattoo. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987.

Gallico, G. Gregory, et al. "Permanent Coverage of Large Burn Wounds with Autologous Cultured Human Epithelium." The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 311, No. 7, August 16, 1984.

Goleman, Daniel. "The Experience of Touch: Research Points to a Critical Role." The New York Times, February 2, 1988, p. C1.

Lamb, Michael. "Second Thoughts on First Touch." Psychology Today, Vol. 16, No. 4, April 1982.

Lebeck, Robert. The Kiss. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981.

Macrae, Janet. Therapeutic Touch: A Practical Guide. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1988.

Montagu, Ashley. Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.

Nyrop, Christopher, trans. W. F. Harvey. The Kiss and Its History. London: Sand and Co., 1901.

Perella, Nicolas James. The Kiss Sacred and Profane. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969.

Sachs, Frederick. "The Intimate Sense of Touch." The Sciences, January/ February 1988.

TASTE

Angier, Bradford. How to Stay Alive in the Woods. New York: Macmillan, 1962.

Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme, trans. and annotated by M. F. K. Fisher. The Physiology of Taste. San Francisco, California: North Point Press, 1986.

Farb, Peter, and George Armelagos. Consuming Passions. New York: Washington Square Press, 1970.

Ferrary, Jeannette. "Plain Old Vanilla Isn't All that Plain Anymore." The New York Times, January 13, 1988.

Harris, Marvin. The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture. New York: Simon & Schuster/Touchstone Books, 1987.

Liebowitz, Michael. The Chemistry of Love. New York: Berkeley Books, 1984.

Pullar, Philippa. Consuming Passions. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1970.

Tisdale, Sallie.. Lot's Wife: Salt and the Human Condition. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1988.

HEARING

Attali Jacques, trans. Brian Massumi. Noise: The Political Economy of Music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985.

Bach, Johann Sebastian. Complete Organ Works. With a preface by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and Charles-Marie Widor. New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1912.

Broad, William J. "Complex Whistles Found to Play Key Roles in Inca and Maya Life." The New York Times, March 19, 1988.

Chatwin, Bruce. The Songlines. New York: The Viking Press, 1987.

Conniff, Richard. "When the Music in Our Parlors Brought Death to Darkest Africa." Audubon, July 1987.

Cooke, Deryck. The Language of Music. London: Oxford University Press, 19871

Crosette, Barbara. "A Thai Monk Unlocks Song in the Earth." The New York Times, December 30, 1987.

Grant, Brian. The Silent Ear: Deafness in Literature. New York: Faber and Faber, 1988.

Mach, Elyse, ed. Great Pianists Speak for Themselves. 2 vols. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1988.

Rothman, Tony, and Amy Mereson. "Fiddling with the Future." Discover, September 1987.

Schaeffer, R. Murray. Th. Composer in the Classroom. Toronto: Clark and Cruickshank, 1965.

Schonberg, Harold. Facing the Music. New York: Summit Books, 1985.

"School in the Exploratorium Idea Sheets," San Francisco: The Exploratorium Bookstore, n.d.

VISION

Bataille, Georges, trans. J. Neugroschal. Story of the Eye. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1987.

__, trans. Allen Stockl. Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927- 1939. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1985.

Berger, John. About Looking. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.

__. The Sense of Sight. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.

Bova, Ben. The Beauty of Light. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1988.

Koretz, Jane F., and George H. Handelman. "How the Human Eye Focuses," Scientific American, July 1988.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, trans. H. L. and T. A. Dreyfus. Sense and NonSense. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1964.

Rossotti, Hazel. Colour: Why the World Isn't Grey. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Shearer, Lloyd. "A Doctor Who Advertises," Parade, July 24, 1988.

Taylor, Joshua C. Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Arts. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1957.

Trevor-Roper, Patrick. Th. World Through Blunted Sight. London: Penguin Books, 1988.

Vaughan, Christopher. "A New View of Vision," Science News, July 23, 1988.

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