Holmes, Bob

Summary: Can you describe how the flavor of halibut differs from that of red snapper? How the taste of a Fuji apple differs from a Spartan? For most of us, this is a difficult task: flavor remains a vague, undeveloped concept that we don’t know enough about to describe—or appreciate—fully. In this delightful and compelling exploration of our most neglected sense, veteran science reporter Bob Holmes...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 HOL

Summary: Presents a collection of nature and science essays published in American periodicals in the previous year, including works by such authors as Julia Rosen, Kashmir Hill, and Lucy Sherriff.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 BES

Contents: Disc one. Give me back my wig / Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers (3:31) -- I'm a woman / Koko Taylor (4:36) -- Have mercy / Big Walter Horton ; with Carey Bell (3:45) -- Somebody loan me a dime / Fenton Robinson (2:54) -- It's my fault, darling / Professor Longhair (4:54) -- Telephone angel / Son Seals (5:25) -- Lights out / Johnny Winter (2:35) -- Blue Monday hangover / Albert Collins...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ALL