Build a brain and then pick it apart with SmarLab's awesome anatomy kit The Amazing Squishy Brain. This anatomically correct model, complete with moving mandible (jawbone), squishy plastic brain, and eyeballs makes for a realistic experience of our body's gray matter. If you think about it, it's really a no brainer!Kids will get ahead of the pack at school by taking a tour through the senses, movement, memory, emotion, decision-making, and automatic functions of the brain. Plus, they’ll learn about phenomena like brain freezes, and get plenty of fun activities, too
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive the world―from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes.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, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and humans that wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn wh
Ever wonder why some people have difficulty recognizing faces or why food found delicious in one culture is reviled in another? John M. Henshaw ponders these and other surprising facts in this fascina
Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses a
An extraordinary, intimate tour through the rich food and culture of China and Tibet, told through lavish photography, stories, and recipes. My China is a sweeping culinary travelogue through modern-d
Reveal the incredible inner workings of the human bodyIn this eye-catching book, readers can explore the hidden inner workings of the human body, look inside different organs and body systems, and learn about how to look after their own physical and mental health at the same time. Readers use the see-through "magic lens" to reveal how our bodies function and the different body parts hard at work inside us. Find out how your senses work with your brain to show us the world around us, how doctors and nurses spot diseases, and how we turn food into energy... and poop. So pick up the magic lens and take a tour of the marvelous human body!
The Ultimate Guide to the One-of-a-Kind Flavors of The Middle EastDelight your senses and excite your palate as Yaniv Cohen, aka The Spice Detective, leads you on a culinary tour through the exciting
In this eye-catching book, readers can explore the hidden inner workings of the human body, look inside different organs and body systems and learn about how to look after their own physical and mental health at the same time. Readers use the see-through magic lens to reveal how our bodies function and the different body parts hard at work inside us. Find out how your senses work with your brain to show us the world around us, how doctors and nurses spot diseases and how we turn food into energy...and poo. So pick up the magic lens and take a tour of the marvellous human body!
Get out your umbrellas! Rhythmic prose and vivid chalk pastels flood the senses and take the reader on a tour of diverse urban India in this beautiful picture book.Children play, birds call, and grown
