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TASTE

Angier, Bradford.
How to Stay Alive in the Woods
. New York: Macmillan, 1962.

Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme, trans and annotated by M. F. K. Fisher.
The Physiology of Taste
. San Francisco, California: North Point Press, 1986.

Farb, Peter, and George Armelagos.
Consuming Passions
. New York: Washington Square Press, 1970.

Ferrary, Jeannette. “Plain Old Vanilla Isn’t All that Plain Anymore.”
The New York Times
, January 13, 1988.

Harris, Marvin.
The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture
. New York: Simon & Schuster/Touchstone Books, 1987.

Liebowitz, Michael.
The Chemistry of Love
. New York: Berkeley Books,1984.

Pullar, Philippa.
Consuming Passions
. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1970.

Tisdale, Sallie.
Lot’s Wife: Salt and the Human Condition
. New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1988.

HEARING

Attali, Jacques, trans. Brian Massumi.
Noise: The Political Economy of Music
. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985.

Bach, Johann Sebastian.
Complete Organ Works
. With a preface by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and Charles-Marie Widor. New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1912.

Broad, William J. “Complex Whistles Found to Play Key Roles in Inca and Maya Life.”
The New York Times
, March 29, 1988.

Chatwin, Bruce.
The Songlines
. New York: The Viking Press, 1987.

Conniff, Richard. “When the Music in Our Parlors Brought Death to Darkest Africa.”
Audubon
, July 1987.

Cooke. Deryck.
The Language of Music
. London: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Crosette, Barbara. “A Thai Monk Unlocks Song in the Earth.”
The New York Times
, December 30, 1987.

Grant, Brian.
The Silent Ear: Deafness in Literature
. New York: Faber and Faber, 1988.

Mach, Elyse, ed.
Great Pianists Speak for Themselves
. 2 vols. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1988.

Rothman, Tony, and Amy Mereson. “Fiddling with the Future.”
Discover
, September 1987.

Schaeffer, R. Murray.
The Composer in the Classroom
. Toronto: Clark and Cruickshank, 1965.

Schonberg, Harold.
Facing the Music
. New York: Summit Books, 1985.

“School in the Exploratorium Idea Sheets.” San Francisco: The Exploratorium Bookstore, n.d.

VISION

Bataille, Georges, trans. J. Neugroschal.
Story of the Eye
. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1987.

——, trans. Allen Stockl.
Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927–1939
. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1985.

Berger, John.
About Looking
. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.

——.
The Sense of Sight
. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.

Bova, Ben.
The Beauty of Light
. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1988.

Koretz, Jane F., and George H. Handelman. “How the Human Eye Focuses.”
Scientific American
, July 1988.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, trans. H. L. and T. A. Dreyfus.
Sense and Non-Sense
. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1964.

Rossotti, Hazel.
Colour: Why the World Isn’t Grey
. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Shearer, Lloyd. “A Doctor Who Advertises.”
Parade
, July 24, 1988.

Taylor, Joshua C.
Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Arts
. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1957.

Trevor-Roper, Patrick.
The World Through Blunted Sight
. London: Penguin Books, 1988.

Vaughan, Christopher. “A New View of Vision.”
Science News
, July 23, 1988.

ALSO BY
DIANE ACKERMAN

THE MOON BY WHALE LIGHT
And Other Adventures
Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales

“The book contains many gems.”

—The New York Times Book Review

Whether she’s sexing an alligator barehanded or coaxing a bat to tangle in her hair, Diane Ackerman goes to unique—and sometimes terrifying—extremes to observe nature at first hand. Provocative, celebratory, and wise,
The Moon by Whale Light
is a book that forges extraordinary visceral connections between the reader and the natural world.

NONFICTION / NATURE
/ 0-679-74226-3

JAGUAR OF SWEET LAUGHTER
New and Selected Poems

“The best lyric poet now writing in the United States.”
—Review

Jaguar of Sweet Laughter
presents the work of a poet with the precise and wondering eye of a gifted naturalist. Ackerman’s Olympian vision records and transforms landscapes from Amazonia to Antarctica, while her imaginative empathy penetrates the otherness of hummingbirds, deer, and trilobites.

POETRY
/ 0-679-74304-9

Coming in Spring
1995

A NATURAL HISTORY OF LOVE

From aphrodisiacs in ancient Egypt to Sigmund Freud, from Abelard and Heloise to
Blade Runner
, poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman delivers an exuberant, scientific, anecdotal tour of the “great intangible”—love in its many forms.

NONFICTION
/ 0-679-76183-7

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