The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust (Wellcome Collection) - Softcover

Tiffany Watt Smith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781251304 ISBN 13: 9781781251300

Publisher: Wellcome Collection, 2016

Synopsis

Is your heart fluttering in anticipation? Is your stomach tight with nerves? Are you falling in love? Feeling a bit miffed? Are you curious (perhaps about this book)? Do you have the heebie-jeebies? Are you antsy with iktsuarpok? Or giddy with dépaysement?

The Book of Human Emotions is a gleeful, thoughtful collection of 156 feelings, both rare and familiar. Each has its own story, and reveals the strange forces which shape our rich and varied internal worlds. In reading it, you'll discover feelings you never knew you had (like basorexia, the sudden urge to kiss someone), uncover the secret histories of boredom and confidence, and gain unexpected insights into why we feel the way we do.

Published in partnership with the Wellcome Collection.

Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death.

Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive, funding over 14,000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries.

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About this title

Review:

[Watt Smith] treats each emotion with the expertise of a wine taster, showing how it is formed from a mixture of many other emotions (Craig Brown Mail on Sunday 2015-10-26)

So riveting are these miniature essays exploring 156 emotions that if anyone interrupts your reading, you'll probably feel irritated ... Educative, entertaining. (Observer 2015-10-18)

Delightful (Prima 2015-11-02)

A brilliant book (Róisín Ingle Irish Times)

Witty, informative, undogmatic and thought-provoking, this wonderful book should convince us that emotions are never just neural events. (Jane O'Grady Times Higher Education 2015-11-12)

From the Author:

Beautifully written, warm and perceptive - author is a rising star who was one of the BBC's 2014 New Generation Thinkers|The history of the emotions is a rapidly growing field destined to attract plenty of attention|Brilliant reviews for first publication and enormous in-house support from both Profile and Wellcome

About this edition

• Publisher: Wellcome Collection
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1781251304
• ISBN 13: 9781781251300
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320