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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Emmeline lives on a remote island with her father, who teaches her about the natural world through her senses. What he won't explain are the mysterious scents stored in the drawers that line the walls of their cabin, or the origin of the machine that creates them. One day the unforeseen happens, and Emmeline is vaulted out into the real world -- a place of love, betrayal, ambition, and revenge. To understand her past, Emmeline must unlock the clues...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daisy the dog likes to look at things but her little brother, Digger, explores every smell as they walk to the park for a picnic, but after sniffing a hole his nose fills with dirt, leaving him unprepared for the skunk they meet on the way home.
Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Many advances have been made in the last decade in the understanding of the computational principles underlying olfactory system functioning. Neuromorphic Olfaction is a collaboration among European researchers who, through NEUROCHEM (Fp7-Grant Agreement Number 216916)-a challenging and innovative European-funded project-introduce novel computing paradigms and biomimetic artifacts for chemical sensing. The implications of these findings are relevant...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Everything about the sense of smell fascinates us, from its power to evoke memories to its ability to change our moods and influence our behavior. Yet because it is the least understood of the senses, myths abound. For example, contrary to popular belief, the human nose is almost as sensitive as the noses of many animals, including dogs; blind people do not have enhanced powers of smell; and perfumers excel at their jobs not because they have superior...
8) Smell
Author
Publisher
Weigl Publishers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains the basic science behind the sense of smell and how we use this sense in everyday life.
10) What is smell?
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
11) The Daily Sniff
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ted, a dog who gets his news each day by smelling out The Daily Sniff, investigates when his town is overcome by an usual odor, which turns out to be a skunk family"--
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
A class visit to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum inspires Stink Moody to create a variety of terrible smells to put on the sneakers he plans to enter in the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneaker contest.
14) I smell
Publisher
PatrickGeorge
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 23 cm
Language
English
Description
What's your favorite smell? What smells don't you like? How do insects smell? This book provides a gentle introduction to our sense of smell, something young children don't often think about.
Author
Language
English
Description
Alexandra Horowitz, author of the bestseller Inside of a Dog, explores what dogs know in even greater depth, following their lead to learn about the dog's spectacular nose and how we mere humans can improve our underused sense of smell. Here Horowitz, a leading researcher in dog cognition, continues to unpack the mystery of a dog's nose-view, in order to more fully understand our companions. She follows the dog's nose--exploring not only its abilities...
16) El olfato
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Lerner
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
23 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Learn about different smells as well as how the nose work.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 654 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Smell is such a powerful and revealing sense because it detects actual little pieces of things in the world. It gives us direct evidence of what those things are made of-unlike the indirectness of vision or hearing, which register light waves and air movements. Those little pieces are volatile molecules, so little that they're able to break away from their source and fly invisibly through the air to reach our nose. To begin to understand a thing's...
20) My nose
Author
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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