1
of
1
Super Senses
The Science of Your 32 Senses and How to Use Them
Book Hero Magic crafted this summary to help describe this book. While it's new and still
learning, it may not be perfect - your
feedback is welcome!
Summary
Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
Please add to wishlist to be notified when back in stock
Sorry, we're currently out of stock of Super Senses. Please add to your Wishlist and we'll send you an email as soon as it's back in stock.
Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?
A mind-bending, eye-opening scientific exploration of our senses - all 32 of them
Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and
still learning, it may not be perfect - your
feedback is welcome!
Description
How do you sniff out danger? What is a sense of direction or a gut instinct? You know about your five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch. But recent research has shown that we actually have at least thirty-two. We take our senses for granted, but what would be possible if we properly understood how they all work?
Award-winning science writer Emma Young has spent over a decade finding out, and in Super Senses she takes us on an exhilarating sensory journey, revealing how we taste things without using our tongues, why swearing is good for us and why both chocolate and rollercoasters can help you fall in love.
Using the very latest cutting-edge research, she explains the exploits of record-breaking freedivers, whirling dervishes, super-tasters, stock market millionaires, and many more. Discover how touch can ease pain, how taking your pulse can make you fitter, and why ABBA's Dancing Queen sounds different in Bolivia.
Sharing surprising secrets from blind ballerinas, voodoo priests, and even a nurse who can smell Parkinson's disease before it is diagnosed, Super Senses uncovers the science behind these abilities that make us human—and offers fascinating lessons in how we can all learn to use them better.
Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?
Super Senses by Emma Young is praised for its engaging exploration of human sensory experiences. Reviewers highlight its meticulous research and insightful revelations about our sensory capabilities. The book is described as both fascinating and informative, offering evidence-based strategies to enhance sensory abilities while debunking common myths about the human body and mind. It is lauded for its compelling personal stories and scientific insights, providing a fresh appreciation for our incredible sensory world.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781473690752
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 April 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 198.0mm
Height: 130.0mm
Weight: 260g
Pages: 384
Collections
About the Author
Emma Young is an award-winning science writer and a former editor on New Scientist. Her articles have been published in the Guardian and the Atlantic. While researching this book she learnt how to echolocate like a bat, have an out of body experience, and trick strangers into liking her. She lives in Sheffield with her husband and two children.
Also by Emma Young
View all-
A Really Short Journey Through the Body
A Really Short Journey Through the Body by Bill Bryson and Emma Young is a delightful and enlightening exploration of the human body, tailored specifically for younger readers. This fully illustrated edition is an engaging adaptation of Bryson's bestselling work, plunging into the intricate and awe-inspiring workings of our bodies. With wit and charm, the authors guide readers through an...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
What If... You Didn't Make Snot?
Answers to 33 crazy and laugh-out-loud questions about the human body from science author Emma Young. What would happen if you never slept? Or if your blood turned blue? Or your bones turned to jelly? Find out the answers to these questions and many more with science author Emma Young! Prepare to learn all about the human body from blood...Hardback$2300Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
A Really Short Journey Through the Body
A funny and fascinating, fully illustrated new edition for children, of the bestselling book about everything inside our body, from legendary author Bill Bryson. We spend our whole lives in one body, and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. Want to know why the skin is the biggest organ?...Hardback$5000Elsewhere:$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
What If... Every Volcano Erupted at Once?
Answers to 33 crazy and laugh-out-loud questions about the Earth from science author Emma Young. What if the Earth's core was made of polystyrene? Or every tree vanished overnight? Or clouds were made from candy floss? Find out the answers to these questions and many more with science author Emma Young! Prepare to learn all about the Earth from rocks...Hardback$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Last Bookshop
A book for book lovers, The Last Bookshop is an uplifting novel that reminds us never to underestimate the power of people who love books. Cait Copper's best friends have always been books - along with the rare souls who love them as much as she does, like the grandmotherly June. When Cait set up her shop, Book Fiend, right...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Disorganisation of Celia Stone
Every woman should have reading this book on their to-do list. Meet Celia Stone, the ultimate hyper-organised, journal-obsessed thirty-something with a life that is perfectly planned out and running like clockwork. From her promising writing career to her devoted partner and rigorous fitness routine, Celia has it all - and she's right on track with her early retirement plan. But...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong!
Curious readers will quickly become experts with this informative, inventive, and entertaining take on a human body book! Do you know all there is to know about the body? Humans have all of the answers about how our anatomy works, right? Well, this book is here to show you that you're wrong! But don't worry, even the experts can't be...Hardback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
New Release
What If... Pigs Could Fly?
Answers to 33 crazy and laugh-out-loud questions about animals from science author Emma Young What if snakes were fluffy? Or skunks sprayed perfume? Or there were as many lions as ants? Find out the answers to these questions and many more with science author Emma Young! Prepare to learn all about animals from sharks to spiders and bats to bears....Hardback$2600Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
New ReleaseCara The Shimmer Wings Capybara (Capybara Kingdom)
Cara The Shimmer Wings Capybara (Capybara Kingdom) by Emma Young is a delightful tale about the adventurous Cara the Capybara, who can’t help getting into scrapes because the world is just so exciting! When Cara is entrusted with a strawberry cake for the family picnic, it’s no surprise that—uh, oh!—a bite goes missing. Her dad suggests a solution by taking...Paperback$1299Elsewhere:$1499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Your SENSE-ational Human Body
Accessible and fun ... truly a kind of genius! — Bill Bryson Everything you thought you knew about your senses is wrong! How many senses do you have? I bet you said five. But you’d be wrong. You have THIRTY-TWO! Your SENSE-ational Human Body explores the thirty-two amazingly awesome, broccoli-hating, wee-sniffing senses that help you figure out the world around...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
This Cat Does Not Love You
Think your cat loves you? Think again... All cat owners are convinced their cat adores them, the loving provider of daily food, affection and a warm home. But what would your cat tell you if it could speak? Would they shower you with praise for providing them a loving home? Not likely. Discover what your cat’s really thinking and what...HardbackSold Out
More from Science & Nature
View all-
Murder Under the Mistletoe
BOOK 4 IN THE BESTSELLING CANON CLEMENT MYSTERY SERIES 'The best of the new cosy crime writers' Daily Telegraph 'You'll want to take a front row pew in Champton while this delicious series unfolds' Janice Hallett It is Christmas Day and at Champton Rectory, Canon Daniel Clement and his mother Audrey are joined by the residents and guests of the...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
John and Paul
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'A triumph.' Deborah Levy, New Statesman 'Tremendous.' Alwyn Turner, The Times 'Revelatory.' Simon Schama, Financial Times 'The gold standard of Beatles books.' Anthony Quinn, Observer 'As enthralling and astonishing as their music.' Jon Dennis, Sunday Telegraph 'A masterpiece.' Dylan Jones, Evening Standard '[Ian Leslie]...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Raising Hare
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE HATCHARDS AND BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE HAY FESTIVAL, SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND iNEWS 'A beautiful book' - ANGELINA JOLIE 'I...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
What If? 10th Anniversary Edition
CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF THE MILLION-SELLING POP SCIENCE CLASSIC WITH A SPECIAL EDITION. THIS IS WHAT IF? . . . x10. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Nerd royalty' — BEN GOLDACRE 'Totally brilliant' — TIM HARFORD 'Required reading across the world' — NEW YORK TIMES From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, experience hilarious and informative answers to important questions...Hardback$4200Elsewhere:$5000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Nuclear War
The Sunday Times bestselling non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Baillie Gifford shortlisted, a favourite of Steven Bartlett, with an average reader rating of 4.6, sure to be a mass-market hit. Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Anxious Generation
A powerful argument for reclaiming childhood—and all human relationships—from the online world, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author. Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spaces—communities polarised by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the mental health emergency hitting teenagers today in many countries around...Paperback$2299Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Prisoners of Geography
Prisoners of Geography looks at the past, present, and future to offer crucial insights into one of the major factors that determine world history – because if you don’t know geography, you’ll never have the full picture. Originally published in 2015, this completely revised and updated edition brings it up to date with the events and trends of the past...Paperback$2899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Booker PrizeOrbital
Winner of the Booker Prize 2024. Chair of the judges, Edmund de Waal, describes the winner as 'a book about a wounded world' adding that the panel's 'unanimity about Orbital recognises its beauty and ambition'. Life on our planet as you've never seen it before. A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Diddly Squat: Home to Roost
It's been another memorable year on Diddly Squat Farm - will the chickens finally come home to roost? Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm. The spring crop failed. Farming sheep, pigs, and cows was hardly more lucrative (better off breeding ostriches...) But in the face of uncooperative weather, bureaucracy, and the world's persistent refusal to recognise his genius, our hero's not...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Place of Tides
To save the world, we have to start somewhere. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old trade that had once made men and women rich, but had long been...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Ultra-Processed People
Launching the runaway bestseller with ambitions to be the biggest non-fiction paperback of the year IT'S NOT YOU. IT'S THE FOOD. "If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one" - Bee Wilson "You've got to get this book in your life . . . Completely compelling . . . Read a page...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Island of Missing Trees
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak is a captivating and poignant novel that delves into the intertwined lives of two star-crossed lovers in war-torn Cyprus and their enduring legacy decades later. This Sunday Times bestselling novel intricately weaves themes of love, loss, and identity amidst a backdrop of cultural and historical turmoil. Set in 1974 on the island...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Why buy from us?
Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent 100% NZ-owned business on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!
Service & Delivery
Our warehouse in Auckland holds over 100,000 books, toys, board games and puzzles in-stock so you're not waiting for your order to arrive from overseas.
Auckland Bookstore
We're primarily an online store, but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our bookstore, which is right next door to our warehouse in Hobsonville.
Our Gifting Service
Books make wonderful thoughtful gifts and we're here to help with gift-wrapping and cards. We can even send your gift directly to your loved one.
