Flavour is arguably the most fascinating aspect of eating and drinking. It utilises a complex variety of senses and processes, that incredibly work together to generate a unified, and hopefully pleasurable, experience. The processes involved are not just those involved in tasting at the time of eating, but also memory and learning processes - we obviously shun those foods of which we have a negative memory, and favour those we enjoy. Our understanding of the science of flavour has improved in recent years, benefiting psychology, cuisine, food science, oenology, and dietetics.
This book describes what is known about the psychology and biology of flavour. Written by an authority in the field, it is divided into two parts. The first explores what we know about the flavour system; including the role of learning and memory in flavour perception and hedonics; the way in which all the senses that contribute to flavour interact, and our ability to perceive flavour as a whole and as a series of parts. The later chapters examine a range of theoretical issues concerning the flavour system. This includes a look at multisensory processing, and the way in which the mind and brain bind information from discrete sensory systems. It also examines the broader implications of studying flavour for societal problems such as obesity. Written in an accessible style, that assumes little prior knowledge of the field, the book will be valuable for psychologists interested in perception, neuroscientists, food scientists, and dieticians.

Advanced English Grammar textbook and reference book covering all the questions that advanced students might have about sentence structure, independent and dependent clauses, gerund clauses, infinitive clauses, noun clauses, adverbial clauses, relative clauses, and participial clauses. The book also covers modals, hedging, cohesion, voice, tense, aspect, and word forms. Answers and examples included. The author has ten years experience preparing students for university in Australia and in East Asia. He has an MA TESOL and a Post Graduate Certificate in TESOL. He is also the author of the Time to Talk Series, popular in elementary schools in South Korea.

India is a modern country of some two hundred million people intermingled with a timeless country of 800 million souls. Understanding Modern India is not all that difficult as it is much like the United States. However, even in modern India, people retain many of the religious beliefs and superstitions which they have absorbed from timeless India. "Village Life in Bengal" by Tara Krishna Basu and "Hindu Customs in Bengal" by Besanta Koomar Bose, describe part of the life which exists just under the surface of modern India.

Helen Anderson is young, beautiful, wealthy, highly accomplished but with some emotional wounds from childhood which keep her isolated and lonely. One evening she sees a young man being mugged. She rescues him, helps him deal with his subsequent amnesia, loves him and marries him. Then during a trip to England she loses him. The love of her life disappears without a trace. Much later, by sheer chance, she finds him, but he has become someone different, almost unreachable. A moving story of love and fidelity, set in the financial world of Boston and the high-tech industry of Waltham and Route 128.

Kenneth Dewar is an accountant, so successful over the years that he has become a "venture capitalist" or a "financier" with only one client, a secret one at that, the patrician banker, Ellsworth Dodge. Dewar specializes in "reorganizing" high technology firms, to the immense benefit of Dodge and himself.

During the course of his life Dewar had forgotten his wife and daughter. They are there, and they speak to each other and life goes forward - it is just that he has forgotten them. One Sunday afternoon, his wife dies suddenly and unexpectedly while taking a nap, and Kenneth is forced to remember her again. He also is forced to look after himself and the apartment and the laundry, and he starts to remember many things about his life that he had forgotten, just as he had forgotten his family. He even tries to make an accounting of his marriage, to draw up a balance sheet. And he finds out some things that he never knew about his wife and about human accounting. It is a moving story of what business does to women and men, set in Boston, Cambridge, and Waltham along Route 128.

The Mafia, rock and roll, high finance. In a story of the conflict between ages, attitudes and culture, Ellsworth Dodge acquires the contract of Millie Armor, an up and coming young singer. Hiding a part, Millie (who yearns for a simple, quiet life) falls in love with both Dodge and a fellow musician who means her no good. Not that Dodge does either--he is merely the biggest shark in the tank. Dodge, the "fleur de mal of The Desk," emerges unscathed from his involvement with the rock and roll world and the Mob. Does all life start with grand ambitions that ultimately become failed dreams, lost illusions?

Set in London, Calcutta, and Ann Arbor, this story is about a group of friends and their intertwined paths through life. Caroline Grant - beautiful, well off and completely self-assured; Parker Henry, the man who loves her, the football star; Amy Gralowicz - sweet, patient, willing to accept life as it presents itself to her; and Larry Franklin, more inclined to intellectual and spiritual pursuits.

This history of the Bengal Famine of 1943 describes the interplay of politics, economics, sociology and military policy, which caused a famine due to a lack of cash, not a lack of food. The Famine, whose story is almost unknown due to wartime censorship by the British, occurred because of a hyperinflation in the price of rice caused by the provisioning for the major offensive against the Japanese on India's eastern borders. Relief efforts were halfhearted because much of the countryside was in a state of endemic revolt against the British. The logistical problems caused by massive gifts of food by the British and Indian troops to the starving people threatened to stall the forthcoming offensive. The cause of the Famine was the deadly alienation between the Bengalis and their British rulers.

Over a long and varied career, Major-General William Beatson earned a fine reputation as a leader of irregular cavalry in the nineteenth century. He trained many future commanders of the Victorian army, saw action in Spain and British India, and rode with the Heavy Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava. But tasked with disciplining the Turkish Bashi-Bazouks during the Crimean War, his character flaws led him into conflict with politicians and diplomats running the war, who accused him of inciting mutiny. Parliament, newspapers and the law courts then became his chosen battlefields as he fought to clear his name and return to duty. By bringing Beatson s life and career into sharper focus, Richard Stevenson connects wide-ranging themes in Victorian military and imperial history in a fresh and accessible way."