Product Description: This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first – seventh centuries AD) by focusing on the importance of smell in ancient Mediterranean culture. Following its legalization in the fourth century Roman Empire, Christianity cultivated a dramatically flourishing devotional piety, in which the bodily senses were utilized as crucial instruments of human-divine interaction...read more

Product Description: Aroma biotechnology opens access to natural volatile flavours. Due to the attribute of "naturalness", these aromas are valuable ingredients for foods, cosmetics and related products. The author of this text describes biocatalyzed reactions and biogenetic routes leading to aroma and flavour compounds...read more

Product Description: Intelligent systems are systems that, given some data, are able to learn from that data. This makes it possible for complex systems to be modeled and/or for performance to be predicted. In turn, intelligent systems' functionality can be controlled through learning/training, without the need for a priori knowledge of their structure...read more

Product Description: Issued from the International Forensic Research Institute and the Canine Department of the Netherlands National Police Agency, Human Scent Evidence presents the latest information on the location, collection, preservation, analysis, and legal significance of the results...read more

Get a good start in flavor and fragrance chemistry! This book presents a survey of those natural and synthetic fragrance and flavor materials which are isolated and produced commercially on a relatively large scale because of their organoleptic characteristics. It provides information on their properties, methods employed in their manufacture, and their areas of application. '...The excellent and concise introduction to this unique industry is followed by extensive information on nearly 500 of the most used fragrance and flavor compounds. Names, molecular formula, physical data, odor and flavor descriptions, uses, and a number of processes for the larger volume chemicals are all included. Successive chapters deal with essential oils, animal secretions, quality control, toxicology and literature. The formula, name and CAS registry number index is an invaluable and timely addition.' Parfumer and Flavorist '...This book provides a lot of useful information in one place, and it is an especially good resource for somebody just entering the flavor and fragrance industry.' Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 'You'll find much information in this book not found in other works.' Foster's Herb Business Bulletin 'Particularly useful for natural product chemists, those in the product development and the curious.' Herbalgram

Product Description: This book examines both the potential application of electronic nose technology, and the current state of development of chemical sensors for the detection of vapours from explosives, such as those used in landmines. The two fields have developed, somewhat in parallel, over the past decade and so one of the purposes of this workshop, on which the book is based, was to bring together scientists from the two fields in order to challenge the two communities and, mutually, stimulate both fields...read more

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Product Description: This is not just a step-by step training guide for hunting dogs. The book also explains scenting conditions, weather conditions, and grid patterns. When these elements are applied to the hunting dog, it gives the hunter the edge over those who do not consider these elements...read more

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Emphasizing the importance of fragrance in the home, this inspired collection of ideas uses evocative photography to demonstrate a wide range of decorative projects, from spicing up the bathroom to hanging fragrant wreaths. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book is designed to give the reader up to date infonnation on some of the more exciting developments that have taken place at the leading edge of fragrance and flavour research. Chapter one gives the reader a rnpid excursion through the chronological landmarks of fragrance and flavour materials and sets the scene for the remaining nine chapters which cover topics that are at the forefront of modem research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Ernie takes a smelling tour of his neighborhood in this brightly illustrated concept book for preschoolers.

Product Description: Starting from the basic principles, this book surveys recent work on electronic noses and presents numerous practical applications. It stresses developments since the first meeting on electronic noses in 1991 and includes a comprehensive appendix, making it an invaluable resource for anyone researching electronic noses or machine olfaction...read more

Encourages appreciation of God's gift of the sense of smell, and offers suggestions for adding fragrance to the home, such as sprinkling talc on bed linens, making sachets, lighting candles, and rubbing essential oils into wood furniture

Product Description: The power of odors to unlock human memory is celebrated in literature and anecdote, but poorly documented by science. Odors -- perhaps more than other stimuli -- are widely believed to evoke vivid and complex past experiences easily...read more

Provides an inspirational guide to the aromatic world of potpourri, scented candles, sprays, and essences, as well as a study of the variety of scents--from citrus and spice to floral and woodland--available. 75,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

Product Description: Sensors and Sensory Systems for an Electronic Nose reviews the current state of progress in the development of an electronic instrument capable of olfaction. The instrument -- the so-called electronic nose -- has enormous potential for application in such areas as product flavor control and environmental monitoring...read more

Product Description: Our sense of smell, as Trygg Engen reminds us early in this definitive work, has been neglected as a research area. This neglect belies the very critical role that the sense plays in human adaptation to the environment through the monitoring of odors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)