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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A world half in darkness. A secret she must bring to light. It is 2059, and the world has crashed. Forty years ago, a solar catastrophe began to slow the planet's rotation to a stop. Now, one half of the globe is permanently sunlit, the other half trapped in an endless night. The United States has colonized the southern half of Great Britain-lucky enough to find itself in the narrow habitable region left between frozen darkness and scorching sunlight-where...
24) Blasphemy
Author
Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
414 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Description
A CIA operative is sent to a remote Arizona mountain with a group of scientists to turn on the world's biggest supercollider. His mission: to discover a secret that will either destroy the world--or save it.
25) Normal Norman
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Description
A scientist introduces Norman the orangutan, who is exceedingly normal in every way, until he says and does some things that are very not normal.
26) Power play
Author
Formats
Description
Recruited by an ambitious senatorial candidate, astronomer Jake Ross is directed to promote a new innovation for cheap energy, a situation that is complicated by the technology's hazards and the extreme tactics used by both political rivals.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (242 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From comedic masterminds Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland comes Adult Swim's newest series. It follows the adventures of mad scientist Rick Sanchez, who returns after twenty years to live with his daughter, her husband, and their children Morty and Summer. Includes all eleven episodes.
Series
Criterion collection volume 523
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Takes viewers on a World War II era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent.
"Compact, propulsive screenplay ..."--Variety.
"One of the finest spy films ever."--TV Guide.
Author
Series
American heiresses (Jen Turano) volume 3
Formats
Description
"In 1886, Beatrix Waterbury's train is disrupted by a heist, scientist Norman Nesbit comes to her aid. He's swept up in the havoc she always seems to attract-including the attention of the men trying to steal his research-and they discover the curious wayfeelings can grow despite chaos"--
33) Island 731
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
343 p.
Description
On board a research vessel in the Pacific, expert tracker Mark Hawkins is trapped on a tropical island with the crew and uncovers evidence of the island's history as the site of a brutal World War II human experimentation program.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rick Sanchez is still living with his daughter Beth's family and causing more trouble than ever. This season the rest of the family, his son-in-law Jerry, grand-daughter Summer and grand-son Morty are dragged into Rick's intergalactic adventures, as he faces new threats and mysteries of his secret past are revealed. Can the family survive Rick's insanity and all the chaos the universe throws at them?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Formats
Description
It is called zero point energy, and it really exists - a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however - until one scientist discovers a way. Or at least he thinks he has. The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other is submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin...
Author
Series
Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
348 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 22 cm
Description
Iconoclastic scientist Isabella, Lady Trent of Scirland, embarks on a two-year global voyage, hoping to determine the relationships among the endless varieties of dragon.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
[1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm]
Appears on list
Description
The biography of Jeanne Villepreux-Power whose curiosity about undersea life led her to pioneer the use of glass tanks for research.
Author
Publisher
Dragon Fruit
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
141 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Black people beyond the token names everyone knows have been accomplishing remarkable things in every discipline: arts, sciences, politics, religion, sports, and more. Meet an entire alphabet of black inventors and scientists from the person who developed the traffic signal to the woman who helped pioneer modern computing for NASA.
40) Breakthrough
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is a revolutionary new series about scientific explorers and how their cutting-edge innovations and advancements will change our lives in the immediate future and beyond. Every scientific breakthrough is driven by a compelling human drama, the scientists grappling with the fear of failure and the anticipation of success, and at the same time, challenging and inspiring us all to look at the world and its possibilities.
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