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Thanks to the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, the Falmouth Public Library now provides access to Peterson’s Test Prep, an online resource that allows you to take practice tests. Yes, it has the PSAT, ACT, SAT, and ASSET tests, as well as the MCAT, LSAT, and GRE. For those new to the United States, it offers practice content for the TOEFL and US Citizenship exam. For those considering careers instead of college, there are practice tests for licensing exams in fields from nursing to law enforcement to cosmetology.
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I can see! I can hear! I can smell! I can touch! Children love to explore. Each day brings new sights and sounds, new things to smell and taste and touch. Aliki's simple text and colorful art introduce young children to the wonder of the five senses and what they reveal about the world around us.
2) Hot dog
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
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First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"A summery picture book about mindfulness, featuring an overheated--and overwhelmed-- canine in need of sea, sand, and fresh air"--
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 29 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Infants' brains are actively developing with everything they experience. Examine how newborns fit into the sensorimotor stage - tracing cognitive development from simple reflexes to beginnings of thought. Explore infant intelligence, information processing and memory. See the progression of infant communication from crying - to giggling - to euphoric babbling and their first words! Understand how language is learned and how caregivers can use infant-directed...
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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...
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"You're not responsible for your ancestry, are you...But if that's so, why have marched under banned slogans, got yourself beaten up by the police, arrested a couple of times; plastered walls with subversive posters...The past is valid only in relation to whether the present recognizes it."
In this collection of new stories, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black, Nadine Gordimer crosses the frontiers of politics, memory, sexuality, and love with the...
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. 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...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Our senses are what make life worth living. They allow us to appreciate a sip of an ice-cold drink, the sound of laughter, the touch of a lover. But only recently have incredible advances in sensory biology given us the ability to understand how and why our senses evolved as they have. In Where We Meet the World, biologist Ashley Ward takes readers on a breathtaking tour of how our senses function. Ward looks at not only the five major senses--vision,...
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In her earlier works, Helen Keller described the details of the early illness that left her deaf and blind, and in the prevailing opinion of the day, unable to be educated, as well as the methods that were eventually used to teach her how to communicate. In the remarkable memoir The World I Live In, Keller offers a much more personal take on her situation, inviting readers inside her own personal experience.
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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."--
12) Senses
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Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2004
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1st ed.
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47 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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Senses is a fascinating introduction to the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. Explore the parts of the human body that enable every person to understand the world in which he or she lives. Eyes observe the details of the surrounding world; ears are sensitive to a diversity of sounds; the tongue captures the flavors in our food; the nose recognizes the tiniest bit of scent; the skin lets us know by touch what things are. Examine...
15) Touching
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English
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to the sense of touch. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
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Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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39 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Chapters focused on the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, infrasonic hearing, magnetoception, and electroreception detail how a variety of animals experience the world around them, focusing on how their biological adaptations to specific ecological niches contribute to senses that often seem extraordinary compared to those of humans. The fully illustrated text includes a table of contents, glossary, and index."--
18) Hello, Ocean!
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English
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Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.
20) Hearing
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English
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to the sense of hearing. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
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