Summary: " ... the first documentary to investigate the actual mechanisms by which mobile phone technology can cause cancer. The film takes a deeper look at how humanity is reacting to the most profound environmental change the planet has ever seen. Two billion years ago life first appeared on earth, a planet bathed in a natural electromagnetic frequency. As life slowly evolved from simple to complex...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RESBerman, Bob
Summary: "'Zapped' tells the story of all the light we cannot see, tracing microwaves, X-rays, gamma rays, radio waves, infrared, ultraviolet, and other forms of radiation from their historic, world-altering discoveries in the nineteenth century to their central role in modern life. Along the way, Berman sets the record straight on the health costs (and benefits) of radiation and explores the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 535 BERSummary: Fantastic voyage: A team of miniaturized scientists go on a remarkable journey through the human body. The lost world: Prehistoric beasts are discovered in the modern-day world. The towering inferno: Faulty wiring sparks a deadly fire in a high-rise building. Voyage to the bottom of the sea: Adventures aboard the submarine Seaview.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bolander, Brooke
Summary: Early in the twentieth century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey, slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time an Indian elephant was deliberately and publicly put to death by electricity in Coney Island. These are matters of historical fact. Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and wrongs crying out to be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLSummary: An earthquake in rural Australia causes a dangerous leak at WALDO, a nuclear waste storage facility. Heinrich Schmidt, an engineer badly exposed to radiation, knows that the leak will poison the groundwater for hundreds of miles around, and wants to warn the public. His boss, however, is only interested in protecting himself, and plots a cover up. Heinrich escapes from the facility, but is too...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gemstone Entertainment 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE CHALiu, Cixin
Summary: Eight light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that showers Earth in deadly levels of radiation. Within a year, everyone over the age of thirteen will die. And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge needed to keep the world running. But when the world is theirs, the last generation may not want to continue the legacy left...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIUMitchell, Alanna
Summary: "A cataclysmic planetary phenomenon is gathering force deep within the Earth. The magnetic North Pole will eventually trade places with the South Pole. Satellite evidence suggests to some scientists that the move has already begun, but most still think it won't happen for many decades. All agree that it has happened many times before and will happen again. But this time it will be different. It...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC 2018
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 538 MITWaltar, Alan E. (Alan Edward)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 539.2 WALBova, Ben
Summary: "In Ben Bova's previous novel New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system. They discovered the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. But one alien AI survived, and it revealed to Jordan Kell that an explosion in the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has created a wave of deadly radiation, expanding out from the core toward Earth. Unless the human...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVSummary: Explanation of radiation (from atomic fallout) as part of everyday life to be treated with common sense (propaganda)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1955
View online at AVOD
Chown, Marcus.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Science Books 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.18 CHOPasternak, Judy
Summary: "Yellow Dirt offers readers a window into a dark chapter of modern history that still reverberates today. From the 1940s into the early twenty-first century, the United States knowingly used and discarded an entire tribe for the sake of atomic bombs. Secretly, during the days of the Manhattan Project and then in a frenzy during the Cold War, the government bought up all the uranium that could...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.1004 PASBova, Ben
Summary: In Ben Bova's previous novel New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system, where they discovered the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. But one alien AI survived, and it revealed to Jordan Kell that an explosion in the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has created a wave of deadly radiation, expanding out from the core toward Earth. Unless the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
View online at Hoopla
Nelson, Craig
Summary: "A riveting narrative of the Atomic Age--from x-rays and Marie Curie to the Nevada Test Site and the 2011 meltdown in Japan--written by the prizewinning and bestselling author of Rocket Men. Radiation is a complex and paradoxical concept: staggering amounts of energy flow from seemingly inert rock and that energy is both useful and dangerous. While nuclear energy affects our everyday...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 539.75 NELPulley, Natasha
Summary: Sent to a mysterious unnamed city in Soviet Russia, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov must serve out his prison sentence studying the effect of radiation on local animals and struggles to find answers about what is being hidden from the thousands who live in the town.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PULWieder, Sam
Summary: Is today's high-tech world wearing you down? Your computer, cell phone, and other electronic devices certainly make your life easier in so many ways. But how might your intimate, ongoing relationship with all of this technology be affecting your overall health and vitality? Author Sam Wieder shares the personal journey that led him to recognize how the electromagnetic radiation in his everyday...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Energy Dynamics 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612 WIEBass, Jefferson.
Summary: When a Manhattan Project scientist is found dead from radiation poisoning, Body Farm founder Bill Brockton is frustrated in the investigation when the only person with knowledge of what happened is an elderly woman with a floundering grasp on lucidity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M BASBrown, Kate (Kathryn L.)
Summary: "A chilling expos©♭ of the international effort to minimize the health and environmental consequences of nuclear radiation in the wake of Chernobyl. Governments and journalists tell us that though Chernobyl was "the worst nuclear disaster in history," a reassuringly small number of people died (44), and nature recovered. Yet, drawing on a decade of fine-grained archival research and interviews...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.17 BROWiggins, Marianne.
Summary: Falling in love during the Second World War, a soldier and a glassblower's daughter eventually have a son, who in adulthood finds his own love affair impacted by the fallout of the atomic age.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIGSummary: Many scientists of the early 20th century, including Albert Einstein, found the idea of an expanding universe with an abrupt origin unpalatable - viewing the universe as static and eternal. This program explores the history of our controversial and explosive beginnings. It seems all scientists agreed that the controversy could only be settled by direct and precise measurements. But the question...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
View online at AVOD
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
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The Heroic Trio and its sequel, Executioners, follow a new kind of justice league: a team of blade-throwing, shotgun-toting, kung fu-fighting heroines who join forces to battle evildoers in a dystopian, noirish city"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After a nuclear power plant worker in Russia is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation, officials initiate a cover-up, refusing to help him, so he steals some plutonium to sell on the black market to support his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2008