Summary: On September 30, 2010, a NASA space telescope called the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, completed its sweeping goal: to record observations of the entire sky in infrared light. The WISE science team is now sifting through the telescope's two million images to spot objects that no astronomer has ever seen before. WISE's most intriguing finds will include mysterious objects called...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: What is your definition of number? Defining the abstract idea of number is extremely difficult and today, we still struggle with the notion of what numbers mean. Numbers neither came to us fully formed in nature nor did they spring fully formed from the human mind. Like other ideas, they have evolved slowly throughout human history. Both practical and abstract, they are important in our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 ZERSummary: "CONSEQUENCES examines the scope of the obesity epidemic and explores the serious health consequences of being overweight or obese. CHOICES offers viewers the skinny on fat, revealing what science has shown about how to lose weight, maintain weight loss and prevent weight gain. CHILDREN IN CRISIS documents the damage obesity is doing to our nation's children. Through individual stories, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Box Office 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WEISummary: Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting. The subject of a recent smash retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, af Klint was for years an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEYSummary: Comprehensive history of six great Indian nations, dramatically filmed on location. Also includes the stories of four heroic Native American leaders: Geronimo, Quanah, Parker Chief Joseph and Crazy Horse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Questar 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRESummary: "500 Nations is an eight-part documentary that looks back at life in North America before the arrival of the Europeans, then follows the epic struggles of Indian Nations as the continent is reshaped by contact"--Booklet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FIVSummary: The American Revolution: England's Last Chance. Benedict Arnold is found not guilty for treason and escapes to Britain where the war is fought on the high seas. The American Revolution: Birth of the Republic. General Cornwallis' surrender to Washington at Yorktown on Oct. 19, 1781. Two years later the Treaty of Paris secures American independence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMESummary: The Story of Film: An Odyssey is an unprecedented cinematic event, an epic journey through the history of world cinema that is a treat for movie lovers around the globe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2012
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Summary: With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVESummary: The true-life story of physicist Richard Feynman, who worked on the first atomic bomb, and his wife Arline who suffered from tuberculosis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Pictures 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INFSummary: Evan McCauley (Mark Wahlberg) is haunted by memories of places he has never been and manifests skills he's never learned. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves "Infinites" come to his rescue, revealing to him that his memories are real - but they are from multiple past lives. Evan must work with the Infinites to unlock answers in his memories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE INFArtist Not Provided
Summary: Tom and Jerry return to Oz with Dorothy to save the Good Witch; Tom and Jerry join Dorothy on her adventures in Oz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TOMSummary: "The acclaimed police drama follows the cases of detective Lt. Mike Stone, a 23-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department, and his young partner, Inspector Steve Keller. The smooth handsome Keller is the perfect foil for the gruff, trenchcoat-wearing Stone. Yet what they have in common is they both have no patience for criminals!"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STRSummary: At the center of this hard-hitting television drama is Lt. Mike Stone, assigned to the homicide detail of the San Francisco Police Dept., and his young, energetic partner, Inspector Steve Keller. In this volume, Stone and Keller confront a hired assassin, a ruthless bank robber, and a trio of escaped convicts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STRSummary: Twenty year veteran Detective Lt. Mike Stone is partnered with young, college educated Inspector Steve Keller who has a lot to learn about being a police detective on the Streets of San Francisco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STRSummary: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSummary: Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13Summary: Destination America looks at the driving forces that have compelled individuals to immigrate to America and, in particular, the immigration of women who have come to this country in search of opportunity and basic human rights denied them in their homelands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DESSummary: Bridging the worlds of children's television and avant-garde, and of geometric abstraction and avant-Gondry playfulness, Al Jarnow creates witty, mesmerizing animations that twist and squeeze time and space. This program presents seventeen of Jarnow's remarkable works, including the psychedelic Edward Lear adaptation THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT (1968), the long and winding road movie AUTOSONG...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Numero Group 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CELSummary: The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties, a child soldier, in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga. Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala and starring Idris Elba.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2021
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEAShakespeare, William
Summary: A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over the 86 years between Richard II (1377-1399) and Richard III (1483-1485).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2 entertain [for] BBC Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SHASummary: Explores the sheer scale and majesty of the largest ocean on Earth, the isolation of its islands, the extraordinary journeys wildlife and humans have gone through to reach these specks of land, and what happened to both after their arrival.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WILSummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017