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The Foul and the Fragrant: Odour and the Social Imagination

by Alain Corbin

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Our most recommended books

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Principles of Psychology by William James

Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett

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Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
by Erving Goffman

Eichmann in Jerusalem
by Hannah Arendt

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
by Oliver Sacks

Principles of Psychology
by William James

Consciousness Explained
by Daniel Dennett