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  • First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Oral Boards, Second Edition

    Comprehensive text and fifty cases provide everything needed to ace the Emergency Medicine Oral Boards!This unique exam prep is the first resource to specifically address every key requirement for emergency medicine oral board success: basic exam preparation, managing information; understanding basic principles of care management; and avoiding specific pitfalls. Readers will find a detailed ... Read more

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  • The Sensory Studies Manifesto

    Tracking the Sensorial Revolution in the Arts and Human Sciences

    by David Howes ...
    The senses are made, not given. This revolutionary realization has come as of late to inform research across the social sciences and humanities, and is currently inspiring groundbreaking experimentation in the world of art and design, where the focus is now on mixing and manipulating the senses.The Sensory Studies Manifesto tracks these transformations and opens multiple lines of investigation ... Read more

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  • Ways of Sensing

    Understanding the Senses In Society

    Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. The book spans a wide range of settings and makes comparisons between different cultures and epochs, revealing the power and diversity of sensory expressions across time and space. The chapters reflect on topics such as the tactile appeal of medieval art, the healing power ... Read more

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  • Sense-Making

    New Sensory Methods for Exploring the Past and Imagining Possible Futures

    Series series Sensory Studies
    In this highly innovative work, the senses are liberated from the confines of the present to serve as vehicles for accessing other historical periods and imagined futures. Sense-Making builds on the burgeoning field of sensory ethnography by introducing a pair of methodologies—sensory (re)construction and sensorial extrapolationCexpressly devised to facilitate time-travel.The first part offers a ... Read more

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  • The Dynamic Decade

    Creating the Sustainable Campus for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001-2011

    The Dynamic Decade tells the story of the sweeping makeover of the 200-year-old campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Six million square feet of buildings were constructed and a million square feet of historic buildings were renovated during one vibrant ten-year period. This massive growth required bold thinking and a vision for combining historic preservation, green building, ... Read more

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  • Sensorial Investigations

    A History of the Senses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law

    by David Howes ...
    Series series Perspectives on Sensory History
    David Howes’s sweeping history of the senses in the disciplines of anthropology and psychology and in the field of law lays the foundations for a sensational jurisprudence, or a way to do justice to and by the senses of other people.In part 1, Howes demonstrates how sensory ethnography has yielded alternative insights into how the senses function and argues convincingly that each culture should be ... Read more

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  • Sensorium

    Contextualizing the Senses and Cognition in History and Across Cultures

    by David Howes ...
    Series series Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
    Do the senses have a history? How many might there be? Are the senses so many independent channels, or do they interact with and modulate each other? If so, how might we cultivate the capacity to see feelingly or hear colours? What makes smell 'the affective sense'? These are among the questions to be addressed in this Element. It pries the senses and perception loose from the psychology ... Read more

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  • First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Oral Boards

    Series series FIRST AID Specialty Boards
    Real exam strategies to help you avoid pitfalls and errors on the Emergency Medicine Oral Boards!Everything you need to remember PLUS what to say and do!EXCEL on the exam with:A detailed description of the exam, including format, scoring, what to expect on exam day, content, recommended study plan, preparation advice, and additional resourcesThe language and technique you need to excel!... ... Read more

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  • Aroma

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    Smell is a social phenomenon, given particular meanings and values by different cultures. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or divide them, empower or disempower. The authors argue that the sociology of smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. ... Read more

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  • A Cultural History of the Senses in the Modern Age

    Edited by Dr. David Howes ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    In the 20th century, many aspects of life became 'a matter of perception' in the wake of the multiplication of media, stylistic experimentation, and the rise of multiculturalism. Life sped up as a result of new modes of transportation – automobiles and airplanes – and communication – telephones and personal computers – which emphasized the rapid movement of people and ideas. The proliferation of ... Read more

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  • Empire of the Senses

    The Sensual Culture Reader

    Edited by David Howes ...
    Series series Sensory Formations
    With groundbreaking contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Italo Calvino and Alain Corbin, among others, Empire of the Senses overturns linguistic and textual models of interpretation and places sensory experience at the forefront of cultural analysis. The senses are gateways of knowledge, instruments of power, sources of pleasure and pain - and they are subject to dramatically different ... Read more

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  • The Sixth Sense Reader

    Edited by David Howes ...
    Series series Sensory Formations
    What is the sixth sense? Is it physical, mental or spiritual? Do we all possess it or is it unique to exceptional individuals? Might there be a seventh sense and an eighth sense as well? What role does culture play in determining the range of our perceptual abilities? The search for a supplementary sense has taken many directions and yielded numerous possibilities for an "additional faculty" of ... Read more

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