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For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she'd been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She'd spent so much time stuck in her head that she'd allowed the vital sensations of life to slip away, unnoticed. This epiphany lifted her from a state of foggy preoccupation into a world rediscovered by seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting,...

2) An immense world: how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us

Author

Yong, Ed

Language

English

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Popular Science

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"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...

3) You can't taste a pickle with your ear: a book about your 5 senses

Author

Ziefert, Harriet

Publisher

Blue Apple

Pub. Date

c2002.

Language

English

Description

Usborne science for beginners

Explores how each of the five senses is hard at work all day long providing information, warning of danger, and helping us enjoy the world around us.

4) Understanding your senses

Author

Treays, Rebecca

Series

Publisher

EDC

Pub. Date

1997.

Language

English

5) Sight

Author

Ruis, Maria

Series

Five senses

Publisher

Barron's

Pub. Date

1985.

Language

English

6) Taste

Author

Hurwitz, Sue

Series

Library of the five senses and the sixth sense

Publisher

Rosen

Pub. Date

1997.

Language

English

7) Smelling

Author

Series

Publisher

Capstone

Pub. Date

c2000.

Language

English

8) Tasting

Author

Series

Publisher

Capstone

Pub. Date

c2000.

Language

English

9) Touching

Author

Series

Publisher

Capstone

Pub. Date

c2000.

Language

English

10) Phenomena: secrets of the senses

Author

Jackson, Donna M

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

2008.

Language

English

Description

Learn how to interpret your senses and explore the ways that technology is changing the way we experience the world.

11) What happens when you use your senses?

Author

Bailey, Jacqui

Series

How your body works

Publisher

PowerKids

Pub. Date

2009.

Language

English

Description

Discovery world first steps to science

Discusses how the senses work and how to make sure that they do not get damaged.

12) The five senses: treasures outside

Author

Moncure, Jane Belk

Series

Publisher

Child's World

Pub. Date

c1990.

Language

English

13) Hear this!

Author

Hewitt, Sally

Series

QEB let's start! science

Publisher

QEB

Pub. Date

c2005.

Language

English

Description

Explains the sense of hearing and how the ears work as sense organs.

14) Smelling

Author

Rissman, Rebecca

Series

Five senses

Publisher

Heinemann Library

Pub. Date

c2010.

Language

English

Description

Learn about how the nose can smell different scents and that some smells can be dangerous.

15) What's that noise?: (this book is calling you...)

Author

Martins, Isabel Minhós

Publisher

Tate Publishing

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

Description

Invites readers to use their senses to find a friend who is calling out to them from inside the book.

16) Fearfully and wonderfully made: the astonishing new science of the senses

Author

Seaberg, Maureen Ann

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

In 2016, scientists proved that humans could see light at the level of a single photon. We are living in historic times when humans may look at the very fabric of the universe in a laboratory setting. Around the world, other recent discoveries about the senses are just as astounding. It turns out we can hear amplitudes smaller than an atom, smell a trillion scents, have a set of taste buds that can discern molecules of fresh water, and can feel through...

17) Seeing

Author

Series

Publisher

Capstone

Pub. Date

c2000.

Language

English

18) The queen's shadow: a story about how animals see

Author

Young, Cybèle

Publisher

Kids Can Press

Pub. Date

[2015]

Language

English

Description

Uses the story of someone stealing a Queen's shadow at a ball to illustrate the different types of vision that various animals have, including chameleons, sharks, lancehead snakes, dragonflies, pigeons, and sea urchins.

19) Look here!

Author

Hewitt, Sally

Series

QEB let's start! science

Publisher

QEB

Pub. Date

c2005.

Language

English

Description

Provides information on the sense of sight.

20) Night sounds, morning colors

Author

Wells, Rosemary

Publisher

Dial

Pub. Date

c1994.

Language

English

Description