Tiffany Watt Smith Books

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.wellcomecollection.org

The Flavour Thesaurus for feelings: 200 bite-size entries on emotions from the universal to the utterly specific.

'[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

Wieviele Gefühle kennen Sie? Manche Gefühle sind überwältigend: die Euphorie des Verliebtseins, die Angst, zu scheitern, oder der Schmerz, einen geliebten Menschen zu verlieren. Andere sind flüchtiger: der Ärger über den schlecht gelaunten, pampigen Chef, die Genervtheit über die lange Schlange an der Supermarktkasse, die Erleichterung, den letzten Bus zu erwischen, oder die Vorfreude auf eine schöne Unternehmung. Und dann gibt es solche, die wir zwar kennen, aber nicht benennen können: Basorexie zum Beispiel, das plötzliche Verlangen, jemanden zu küssen. Oder Iktsuarpok, ein Wort, das die Inuit verwenden für das zappelige Warten auf Besuch.