Descripción
The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge work in biology, chemistry, and physics, Turin used his obsession with perfume and his eerie gift for smell to turn the cloistered worlds of the smell business and science upside down, leading to a solution to the last great mystery of the senses: how the nose works.
Author: Chandler Burr
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 02/10/2004
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780375759819
ISBN10: 0375759816
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Biography & Autobiography | Business
- Medical | Neuroscience
Author: Chandler Burr
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 02/10/2004
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780375759819
ISBN10: 0375759816
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Biography & Autobiography | Business
- Medical | Neuroscience
About the Author
Chandler Burr is the author of A Separate Creation: The Search for the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation. He has contributed to The Atlantic and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications.