Summary: "Bill Nye radiates in this sizzling episode called Heat. Learn what heat is and about its three forms: conduction, convection, and radiation."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILMidthun, Joseph
Summary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces heat energy. Features include several photographic pages, a glossary, additional resource list, and an index"--Provided by publisher
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 536 MIDHeat Moon, William Least
Summary: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least-Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HEAStephenchel, Tora
Summary: A simple story about a hot day. This story helps readers learn the words it, is, and hot. Bright pictures provide visual cues to help the reader. Additional features include a word list, an introduction to the author, and a letter to caregivers and educators.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE STESummary: How do plants and animals stave off overheating and dehydration under a relentless sun-especially when burdened with thick skins, hides, or shells? This program looks at adaptations and survival techniques that cope with intense heat, particularly in desert environments. Venturing into the Sonora Desert, viewers learn about the sprawling root system of the saguaro cactus and the water recycling...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: More than 1,000 tornadoes touch down in the U.S. every year. While most people run away, one team of scientists heads straight for the action. This program follows their activities, with a primary focus on one team member, Tim Samaras. Viewers learn about the small, armored, camera-laden probes which have been placed by the team directly in the path of several twisters in order to gain...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Castle, Richard
Summary: Richard Castle, New York Times mega-bestselling mystery writer and star of ABC's hit primetime show Castle is back. In the seventh novel of his popular Nikki Heat series, the NYPD's top homicide detective has been promoted to captain just in time to face a thrilling case with a very personal twist. Captain Heat's fiancé, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jameson Rook, is deep in an investigation....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kingswell 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CASDonner, Erica
Summary: "This board book helps emergent readers understand and differentiate between these opposites of hot and cold."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jump!, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD DONSummary: This program examines the urgent need-not only in the U.S. but across the world-for sustainable energy; it also illustrates how new power production methods are becoming a reality. Alternative energy trendsetters are featured, including Time magazine "Hero for the Planet" Geoffrey Ballard, who explains his hydrogen fuel cell innovations. Evergreen Solar vice president Mark Farber describes his...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Ailor, Edgar I.
Summary: "In 1978, William Least Heat-Moon made a 14,000-mile journey on the back roads of America, visiting 38 states along the way. In 1982, the popular Blue Highways, which chronicled his adventures, was published. Three decades later, Edgar Ailor III and his son, Edgar IV, retraced and photographed Heat-Moon's route, culminating in Blue Highways Revisited, released for publication on the thirtieth...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2012
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Summary: "No athlete is referenced as frequently in commentaries on Black politics as LeBron James. The NBA all-star, gold medal Olympian, four time NBA champion, and four-time finals MVP has been a pivotal figure in both the culture and politics of basketball. Despite his unmatched skill, success and popularity, James has never been fully free from the entrenched racism and anti-blackness in American...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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Summary: "Heat is a form of energy that people are very familiar with. Heat makes our homes warm in winter. It helps us prepare food for dinner. Heat can also be dangerous, such as when a fire destroys a home or forest. In this book, readers will learn the physics behind the transfer of heat from one object to another-whether it's the sun warming our world or a stove burner heating water. Readers also...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 536 KEPSummary: This program demonstrates the changeability of solids, liquids, and gases with real-world, easy-to-understand examples. Set at a campsite, the video utilizes simple tools at hand-a camp stove, pots and pans, boiling water, and ice-to explain the concepts of state change, latent heat, expansion, contraction, and sublimation. Viewers will become familiar with the particle theory of matter, how...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program opens in the 1660s when the nature of cold and heat was a complete mystery. Were they different aspects of the same phenomenon? The experiments that settled these questions helped stoke the Industrial Revolution.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: "Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents--mostly elderly and black--died over the course of one week. As Cooked links the deadly heat wave's devastation back to the underlying manmade disaster of structural racism, it delves deep into one of our nation's biggest growth industries: Disaster Preparedness. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COOSummary: Using numerous examples to show how a very important phenomenon occurs and serves various purposes, this fascinating program takes students on a lively journey through the mechanisms and practicalities of heat transfer. Viewers are introduced to conduction, convection, and radiation and encounter the concepts of specific heat and thermal capacity. Topics include the use of heat in power...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In the U.S. alone, tornadoes kill up to 70 people a year and injure as many as 1,500 while causing an estimated 400 million dollars in damage. More than ever before, scientists are determined to unlock the mystery of how tornadoes work, especially close to the ground where they wreak the most havoc. But no one has ever been able to get a view from inside the whirling base of a deadly...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: A 100% efficient automobile engine is a nice idea. Unfortunately, it breaks the law-the Second Law of Thermodynamics, that is. This program judiciously explains both Laws of Thermodynamics, providing details on isovolumetric, isobaric, and adiabatic processes. Heat engines, with their hot and cold reservoirs, are also given their day in court, along with the concept of entropy, which is charged...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: When a werewolf stalks hyperactive teens in Hawaii, only the concept of phase changes can save them. This program outlines the mechanics of heat transference within isolated systems, including specific heat capacity; the relationship between latent heat and changes of state; the processes of conduction, convection, and radiation; and the theory behind the work produced by an internal combustion...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Coleman, Ted
Summary: Get to know the greatest players in the history of the Miami Heat, from the legends of the past to today’s biggest superstars. This action-packed book also includes a timeline, team facts, additional resources links, a glossary, and an index.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Press Box Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.323 COLGoodell, Jeff
Summary: "The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90°F to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: When people talk about global warming, they mean climate change. Scientists predict that Earth will continue to get warmer if people don't make serious changes to protect Earth. Reducing the use of fossil fuels is one way that young readers are introduced to slowing climate change in this simple book about the warming of Earth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids 2022
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Summary: Interest in residential geothermal systems has grown as more people realize they can replace their fossil-fuel heating system with one that is three to five times more efficient and doesn't require a chimney to exhaust noxious fumes. Currently in the USA there is a federal 30% tax credit that applies to the total installation cost. These newer, safer systems provide heating as well as cooling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pangea Publications 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 697 STOTomocek, Steve
Summary: "This book shows readers the awesome power of heat waves and droughts"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022