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"Combining simple text with gorgeous photos, the latest addition to Jane Brocket's Clever Concepts series encourages children to use all five of their senses (and the corresponding body parts associated with those senses) to investigate the world around them."-- Provided by publisher.
2) Human senses
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6 videodiscs (30 min. each) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Six-part series that goes around the globe in search of the biological roots of our senses of smell, vision, taste, touch and balance. Live action combined with special effects creates imagery to convey the "feeling" of how our senses work.
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4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm).
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"Professor Francis Colavita offers a biopsychological perspective on the way we humans navigate and react to the world around us in a process that is ever-changing. Our experiences are vastly different today than they were when we were children and our senses and brains were still developing; and those experiences are becoming ever more different as we age, when natural changes alert us to the need to compensate, often in ways that are quite positive"--Publisher's...
12) Listen
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A lyrical picture book intends to inspire empathy by showing how everything and everyone on Earth is connected.
15) Animal senses
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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Discusses how different animals use their senses to find food, attract a mate, detect danger, bond with their young, and more.
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Have You Ever Seen a Flower? is an enchanting picture book exploring the relationship between childhood and nature. In this simple yet profound story, one child experiences a flower with all five senses -- from its color to its fragrance to the entire universe it evokes -- revealing how a single flower can expand one's perspective in incredible ways. This book is the authorial debut of award-winning illustrator Shawn Harris. Reminds readers to appreciate...
17) My ocean is blue
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"A girl with a disability explores every facet of the ocean during a day at the beach. A girl spends an entire day exploring the seaside with her mom. A keen observer, she sees the ocean as both "big" and "small" and both "sparkly" and "dull. It's also "dotted and spiraled and wavy and straight." Her ocean is full of sounds -- it "splashes and crashes" and "laughs and hums." But, at times, it's silent. She is inspired to examine and celebrate every...
18) Finding wild
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1 volume (unpaged): color illsutrations ; 21 x 27 cm
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"All the ways and places that wild exists in our world and where you can find it"-- Provided by publisher.
19) Faces
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48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Photographs record the reactions of the eye, ear, nose, and tastebuds to both pleasant and unpleasant stimuli.
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xv, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Perception is the foundation of human experience, but few of us understand why we see what we do, much less how. By revealing the startling truths about the brain and its perceptions, [neuroscientist] Beau Lotto shows that the next big innovation is not a new technology: it is a new way of seeing. In his first major book, Lotto draws on over two decades of pioneering research to explain that our brain didn't evolve to see the world accurately. It...
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