Peter Smith
Author
Formats
Description
"Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself. Mammals and birds are widely seen as the smartest creatures on earth. But one other branch of the tree of life has also sprouted surprising intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. In this episode, according to local legend, Winyard is haunted-- and it lives up to its reputation when a young couple dies on the property in a grisly fashion.
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 7 volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Troy wins a promotion to inspector, but before he can decide on his future, a construction mishap unearths a recent skeleton hidden among ancient bones. While Barnaby investigates, he sends Troy to the woods near Midsomer Worthy where teenagers have tangled with an old man who lives in the wild.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets. A series of grisly murders rocks the village of Fletcher's Cross and local spiritualists fall under suspicion.
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 7 volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sergeant Dan Scott arrives from London to work with Barnaby, expecting to have an easy life on the rural beat. Then the murders begin. The death of an unlikable Midsomer Mallow woman embroils Cully and her old schoolmates in a case of murder and deceit.
Series
Publisher
distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and Detective Sergeant Ben Jones investigate the murder of Midsomer Conservation Society member Maureen Stubbs and her alleged complicity in burglaries and vandalism against supporters of a modern property development in Pelfe Chase.
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 7 volume 4
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The murder of a prize-winning author on the eve of the 12th Annual Midsomer Literary Festival casts a cloud over the proceedings. Barnaby and Scott's investigation uncovers a web of sexual and financial misdeeds, and the possibility that Cully is in danger.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets. In the orchid-mad village of Midsomer Malham, Barnaby and Scott must discover who would kill to own an extremely rare specimen.
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 15 volume disc 1
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Barnaby is torn between work and family obligations when the maid of honor at a high-society wedding is murdered just days before his own daughter's nuptials. The body count rises as the detectives sift through a tangled web of upper-crust affairs and servants' gossip. Barnaby has to race to solve the case in time to walk Cully down the aisle.
Series
Publisher
distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The village of Little Worthing prides itself on two tourist attractions: the annual boat race and an elaborate model village. Then the body of troublemaker Richard Tanner turns up bound on the model with string and pegs like a passage from Gulliver's Travels. As Barnaby and Jones investigate, they discover that outsized passions swirled around the tiny figurines and that this model hamlet hides troubling personal histories"--Container.
15) Ron's gone wrong
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ron's Gone Wrong is a computer-animated film set in a world where it's the norm to have B-Bots, digitally connected robot companions. Barney is a shy middle-schooler who is the last one in his city to finally get Ron, his B-Bot. Unfortunately, his "Best Friend Out of the Box" becomes a major pain, malfunctioning on a regular basis. Not knowing what else to do, Barney sets out to teach Ron about social cues and what it means to be a human.