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  • THE SIXTH SENSE READER
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    THE SIXTH SENSE READER
    DAVID HOWES
    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 "addit...

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  • EMPIRE OF THE SENSES
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    EMPIRE OF THE SENSES
    DAVID HOWES
    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 dr...

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  • WAYS OF SENSING
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    WAYS OF SENSING
    DAVID HOWES / CONSTANCE CLASSEN
    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...

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  • AROMA
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    AROMA
    CONSTANCE CLASSEN / DAVID HOWES / ANTHONY SYNNOTT
    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 socia...

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  • HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING WITH OPENCL: REVISED OPENCL 1.2 EDITION
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    HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING WITH OPENCL: REVISED OPENCL 1.2 EDITION
    GASTER, BENEDICT / HOWES, LEE / KAELI, DAVID R. / MISTRY, PERHAAD / SCHAA, DANA
    Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL teaches OpenCL and parallel programming for complex systems that may include a variety of device architectures: multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and fully-integrated Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) such as AMD Fusion technology. Designed to work on multiple platforms and with wide industry support, OpenCL will help you more effectively program for ...

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  • SENSE-MAKING
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    SENSE-MAKING
    SHERYL BOYLE / GENEVIEVE COLLINS / DAVID HOWES
    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 ...

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