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661) Eureka: Season one
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 558 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the quirky town of Eureka, America's brightest scientists are working on some of the government's best-kept secrets-- some lead to brilliant inventions and some to total chaos. Making sense of the mysteries is Sheriff Jack Carter, a former U.S. marshal who is stranded in the surreal small town after a random car accident.
662) Frankenstein
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a scientist working on stem cell research decides to use her dying son's DNA in her research, she creates a monster.
663) I am Temple Grandin
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm.
Description
Shines a spotlight on American scientist Temple Grandin, whose experience being on the autism spectrum has informed her advocacy and her work as an animal behaviorist.
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 20
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
ix, 419 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Description
On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken-the men say-by baffling lights that circled the ship....
Author
Publisher
Beascoa
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Description
¿Por qué las rosas tienen pinchitos? ¿Por qué en la nariz hay tantos pelitos? Ada Magnífica tiene la cabeza llena de preguntas. Como sus compañeros de clase Pedro y Rosa, Ada siempre ha sentido una curiosidad insaciable. Pero cuando lleva demasiado lejos sus exploraciones y sus complicados experimentos científicos, sus padres se cansan y la mandan al rincón de pensar. ¿Tanto pensar le hará cambiar de opinión?
Author
Description
A New York Times Best Seller!
To many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American political era, dissolving the divisions of the past. However, when seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then Ferguson, Missouri, happened; and then South Carolina hit the headlines; and then Baltimore blew up, it was hard to find any evidence of a new post-racial order. Suddenly the...
667) Hammer horror
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (357 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Horror of Dracula (1958): "Christopher Lee as the centuries-old vampire Dracula and Peter Cushing as his implacable foe Van Helsing battle for the souls of Londoners in this retelling of Bram Stoker's novel." -- Container.
Dracula has risen from the grave (1969): "A village trembles in fear. A priest forsakes his vows to serve evil. Young beauties fall victim to a mysterious seducer. Christopher Lee returns for the third time in his signature role."...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
vi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Science is a force for good in the world--at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn't everything, it's the only thing--no matter thecost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the true story of what happens when unfettered ambition pushes otherwise rational men and women to cross the line in the name of science, trampling ethical boundaries...
669) Assassin's game
Author
Series
David Slaton novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge Books/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A high-octane thriller from Ward Larsen, the author of The Perfect Assassin. David Slaton has a good life. He has a new wife and a house in the Virginia suburbs. But he also has a dark past. Slaton is a former kidon, the most lethal Israeli assassin ever created. After decades of work, a brilliant scientist has taken Iran to the threshold of its dream--a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. Mossad must eliminate the man, but with a spy lurking high...
670) The last animal
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Jane is a serious scientist on the cutting-edge team of a bold project looking to "de-extinct" the wooly mammoth. She's privileged to have been sent to Siberia to hunt for ancient DNA, but there's a catch: Jane's two "tagalong" teen daughters are there with her in the Arctic, and they're bored enough to cause trouble. Brilliant, fiery, sharp-tongued Eve is fifteen and willing to talk back to the male scientists in a way her mother is not. And sweet,...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
467 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black & white), photographs, portraits ; 24 cm
Description
"When scientists discovered the first ocean beyond Earth, they had two big questions: 'Is it habitable?' and 'How do we get there?' To answer the first, they had to solve the second, and so began a vivacious team's twenty-year odyssey to mount a mission to Europa, the ocean moon of Jupiter. Standing in their way: NASA, fanatically consumed with landing robots on Mars; the White House, which never saw a science budget it couldn't cut; Congress, fixated...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
"In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time. Whenever a tempestuous period in history begins, Machiavelli is summoned, because he is known as one for philosophizing in dark times. In fact, since his death in 1527, we have never ceased to read him to pull ourselves out of torpors....
674) The pharaoh's secret
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
9 CDs (660 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kurt and Joe tangle with the most determined enemy they've ever encountered when a ruthless powerbroker schemes to build a new Egyptian empire as glorious as those of the Pharaohs. Part of his plan rests on the manipulation of a newly discovered aquifer beneath the Sahara, but an even more devastating weapon at his disposal may threaten the entire world: a plant extract known as the black mist, discovered in the City of the Dead and rumored to have...
675) Skinny dip
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 5
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
466 pages ; 21cm.
Description
Ex-police officer Mick Stranahan rescues a woman from the ocean. Joey Perrone's husband tried to kill her by pushing her overboard from a cruise liner because he suspected that she had figured out his scam of doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can illegally dump fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. Mick helps Joey haunt and taunt her homicidal husband.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 55 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film chronicles 10 of their stories: three of the world's foremost...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
"On September 11, 1999, humanity made a monumental discovery in the vastness of space. Scientists uncovered an asteroid of immense scientific importance--a colossal celestial entity. As massive as an aircraft carrier and towering as high as the iconic Empire State Building, this cosmic titan was later named Bennu. Remarkable for much more than its size, Bennu belonged to a rare breed of asteroids capable of revealing the essence of life itself. But...
678) Daybreakers
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the year 2019, an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, so does the blood supply. Now the vampires must find a blood substitute before time runs out. Researcher Edward Dalton and a clandestine group of vampires have made a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.
Author
Series
Dr. Stone volume 1
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
"The race across South America is on as the team dives into the Amazon rain forest, hoping to reach the source of petrification. When they arrive, Senku and friends discover a scene that's so full of malice it's sickening! Deeper into the Amazon--at the so-called Stone Sanctuary--the final battle against Stanley draws near!"--
Author
Series
Dr. Stone volume 24
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
"Senku and company are determined to reach the moon, but first they face their greatest obstacle yet--building a computer! They need the help of a genius programmer named Sai, who just happens to be Ryusui's older brother. As progress on the rocket continues, Senku shocks the Kingdom of Science when he reveals a grim truth about their mission..."--
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