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 BROSummary: Each section features a lavish double-page image of an influential painting that defines each artistic style. Seminal works of genius are portrayed in their historical context, with attention paid to the culture of the time and the lives of their creators.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 709 ARTBrown, 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
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 537 BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 537 BROBrown, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 615.3 BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 615.3 BROCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC BROWatt, Fiona.
Summary: Contains all the techniques and projects--more than one hundred--from the Art Ideas series, and includes information on such topics as brushes, paper, media, wax resist, punched holes, and paper sculpture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Pub.] 2010
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Arts WattSummary: 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 THISummary: 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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2013
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Fogg, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643 FOGLowden, John.
Summary: An examination of the work of "artists, architects and craftsmen [who] produced superb and intriguing works ranging from the grandest public buildings to the smallest and most personal items....[which] defined the Christian tradition in art and architecture for succeeding centuries."--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon 1997
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Summary: Using a contextual approach, this book considers the meaning of the word "art" in the Indian cultural mileau, the relationship between the subcontinent's religious traditions, the status of artists, and the impact of trade and travel on artistic development.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 DehejiaFarmer, Art.
Contents: Mox nix -- Fair weather -- Darn that dream -- The touch of your lips -- Jubilation -- Like someone in love -- I love you -- Cold breeze.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FARParini, 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 PARSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GALLaws, 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 BEDTatum, Art
Contents: Stormy weather -- Sweet Lorraine -- Humoresque -- I know that you know -- Humoresque -- Ain't misbehavin' -- Smoke gets in your eyes -- I can't give you anything but love -- Danny boy -- How high the moon -- Begin the beguine -- Cherokee -- Down by the Old Mill Stream -- Sweet Lorraine -- How high the moon -- Gershwin medley. The man I love ; Summertime ; It ain't necessarily so ; I got plenty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storyville Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ TATTatum, Art
Contents: If I had you / Ted Shapiro, Jimmy Campbell, Reg Conelly (3:52) -- Night and day / Cole Porter (8:37) -- Fine and dandy / Kay Swift, Paul James (3:38) -- Fine and dandy (2:53) -- Fine and dandy (3:54) -- Humoresque / Antonin Dvorak (3:59) -- Poor butterfly / Raymond Hubbell, John Golden (3:31) -- Willow weep for me / Ann Ronell (3:04) -- I gotta right to sing the blues / Harold Arlen, Ted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storyville Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ TATMattern, 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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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD BRECopies Available at Woodmere
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: This program beautifully captures the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance through the Late Gothic art of England and its Perpendicular architecture. Spanning the reigns of Henry IV to Henry VIII-the era of the Hundred Years' War, the Wars of the Roses, and the early Tudors-artists and artisans in England produced exquisite jewelry, glorious devotional sculptures and images,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: What do modern art, a symphony, and a documentary film have in common? They all require aesthetic considerations. This program presents the ideas of key figures in the shaping and understanding of aesthetics-from Plato, Francis Hutcheson, and Kant to Leon Battista Alberti, Stendhal, and Tolstoy-and addresses pivotal writings, including Aristotle's Poetics and Morris Weitz's "The Role of Theory...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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100 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 ONERose, Rachel
Summary: "After a big meal, sometimes my tummy feels funny. And then-pfft! Why does my body do that? Explore the silly body science of farts. Learn how they happen, how often they happen, and more. Lively text and bright layouts make this a perfect fit for budding scientists asking big body questions"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing 2023