Brown, Don
Summary: "Machines That Think! explores machines from ancient history to today that perform a multitude of tasks, from making mind-numbing calculations to working on assembly lines to guiding spaceships to the moon. Included are fascinating looks at the world's earliest calculators, the birth of computer programming, and the arrival of smartphones. Contributors discussed include Muhammad ibn Mūsā...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 006.3 BROBrown, Don
Summary: "From phones to lightbulbs to electric cars, electricity is something we can't live without! Breaking down concepts like atoms, current, and magnetism, acclaimed author-illustrator Don Brown demonstrates how our world became connected by electricity. Brown highlights key inventors and scientific breakthroughs, including Benjamin Franklin's famous experiment using a kite as a lightning rod...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 537 BROCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 537 BROSummary: This film tells the stories of ten influential works of architecture, the people who imagined them, and the way these landmarks ushered in innovative cultural shifts throughout our society. From American architectural stalwarts like Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, to modern revolutionaries Frank Gehry and Robert Venturi, this film examines prominent buildings designed by pioneering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2013
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Yapp, Nicholas.
Summary: This book is a visual journey through our age. To create it, Getty Images and National Geographic identified 100 days that represent defining moments of the past 150 years, and crystallized them with photographs that evoke joy and anger, triumph and despair--including scores of rare and unpublished photographs uncovered during its creation. From the Getty Images archive, images depict major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 909.8 YAPFogg, Marnie
Summary: From the Victorian crinoline to Vivienne Westwood’s mini-crini, from Hervé Léger’s 1985 bandage dress to Christopher Kane’s 2006 neon revamp, these 100 glorious, groundbreaking dresses made fashion history. Through beautiful images, anecdotes, and analysis, The Dress looks at past styles and present-day reinterpretations, showing how design ideas have been reborn and referenced through time....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Goodman 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The inspiration for Darwin's theory of evolution, the Galápagos Islands are a living laboratory, a geological conveyor belt that has given birth to and seen the death of many species of plants and animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Parini, Jay.
Contents: Of Plymouth Plantation -- The Federalist papers -- The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin -- The journals of Lewis and Clark -- Walden-- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- The souls of black folk -- The promised land -- How to win friends and influence people -- The common sense book of baby and child care -- On the road -- The feminine mystique -- 100 more books that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.7 PARLaws, Bill.
Summary: "Filled with unusual and unexpected stories and facts, this illustrated survey of the most important historical and contemporary railway lines around the world will captivate a wide audience, from the curious browser to researching students. The book organizes the railroads chronologically, considering each according to its greatest impact on social, commercial, political, engineering, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385 LAWBedsit Poets (Musical group)
Contents: February kisses -- Refusing to play -- Reach for the sky -- Black heart -- Simple twist of emotion -- The summer that changed -- Far from you --Round and round -- Don't ask me to be friends -- Little boy -- Let it rain.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bongo Beat Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BEDSummary: Occasionally an extraordinary photograph emerges, one that is more than a documentary record of an important event or memorable scene. The photograph itself becomes the event and, as a consequence, the world is measurably changed. The photographs presented here represent a personal selection of images that achieve this rare stature. They are not necessarily "great" photographs (although many of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1989
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 MONMattern, Joanne
Summary: "From the Great Fire of London to the Challenger explosion, earthquakes, crashes, floods, and accidents have been major turning points throughout history. In 100 Disasters That Shaped World History, young readers will be introduced to some of the most notorious disasters known to mankind, discovering how these fateful events unfolded-and how they changed the world as we know it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks eXplore 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 904 MATSummary: Take a mind-blowing journey through human history, told through six iconic objects: the car, the airplane, the smartphone, the rocket, the robot, and the telescope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BREYenne, Bill
Summary: Provides an overview of world history through capsulized descriptions of major turning points that have profoundly affected the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks eXplore 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 909 YENSummary: The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org--"The world's smartest website" (The Guardian)--challenges some of the world's greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 THI100 gecs (Musical group)
Contents: 745 sticky (2:21) -- money machine (1:54) -- 800 db cloud (2:20) -- I Need Help Immediately (1:21) -- stupid horse (2:01) -- xXXi_wud_nvrstøp_ÜXXx (2:54) -- ringtone (2:23) -- gecgecgec (2:23) -- hand crushed by a mallet (2:06) -- gec 2 Ü (3:17).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL ELECTRONIC ONEGillon, Steven M.
Summary: Presents a companion volume to The History Channel's documentary which recounts the events of ten pivotal days that changed the course of American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 GILLange, George
Contents: How to use this book -- Part I. Ways of seeing -- Shoot the moment, not the subject -- Keep it real -- Embrace intimacy -- Move your eye -- See the light -- Feel the rhythm -- Part II. Make your ideas real -- Get a tiny bit technical -- Work with people -- Capturing the wonder of babies and children -- Use props and backdrops -- Have fun -- Appendix: The nitty-gritty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub Co 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770.1 LANMcDougall, Nancy
Summary: A collection of recipes suitable for children to prepare, with detailed instructions and photographs. Also includes nutritional information.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lorenz Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5 MCDBrown, Don
Summary: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it wasn't just one man who got us to the moon. The Moon Landing explores the people and technology that made the moon landing possible. Instead of examining one person's life, it focuses on the moon landing itself, showing the events leading up to it and how it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.45 BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 629.45 BROSummary: "The film vividly portrays key moments in Martin Luther's story. The massive lightning storm that nearly killed him, the bleak self-punishment of his time in the monastery, the corruption that unleashed his anger, the theological breakthrough that reset Christian thought, his trial before the most powerful man in Europe, the staged kidnapping that helped him escape the death penalty, and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MARJones, Sharon
Summary: After a two-year gap, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings return with their third album. Recently the band has worked with such artists as Amy Winehouse, Kanye West, Lily Allen, and more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Daptone Records 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES JONSummary: How do photographic images evoke meaning and emotion? To understand that, viewers first need to understand how the eyes and brain process input from the visual world. After an overview of the biomechanics of vision, this program explains how proximity, similarity, and continuity affect perception; what light is and how lighting types and angles alter an image; and how color theory operates....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: When specialty cameras, trick photography, and digital manipulation are combined with creative genius, photography becomes an extremely versatile medium of expression and self-exploration. This program examines the history of photography, charting its evolution from a technical craft to a fine art. Works of Tim Macmillan, Catherine Opie, Suky Best, Alison Jackson, and Caroline Molloy are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Brown, Don
Summary: "A Shot in the Arm!, book 3 in the Big Ideas that Changed the World series, is the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious disease. Beginning with smallpox-perhaps humankind's greatest affliction to date-and concluding with an overview of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown traces the evolution of vaccines and examines deadly diseases such as measles, polio, anthrax,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2021