Summary: Acclaimed director Steve James tells the saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only bank prosecuted after the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves, and their bank's legacy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ABAPullan, J. M.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: F. A. Praeger 1969
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 511.2 PULKojima, Takashi
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1954
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 513.028 KOJContents: Piece by piece (Idol version) (Kelly Clarkson) -- Love yourself (Justin Bieber) -- Hands to myself (Selena Gomez) -- Roses (the Chainsmokers featuring Rozes) -- Me myself & I (G-Eazy x Bebe Rexha) -- Pillowtalk (Zayn) -- In the night (the Weeknd) -- Out of the woods (Taylor Swift) -- Something in the way you move (Ellie Goulding) -- Don't (Bryson Tiller) -- Middle (DJ Snake featuring Bipolar...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK Now 58Summary: This program provides a fascinating survey of mathematical modeling through the ages-from scratch marks on early bone, to the ingenious Babbage Engine-forerunner of the modern computer. Primitive models include the early Greek sundial and astrolabe; a knotted rope used by the Incas to keep track of the community larder; and a wooden tablet with tally marks showing the number of kegs received by...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Joy Formidable (Musical group)
Contents: The everchanging spectrum of a lie -- The magnifying glass -- I don't want to see you like this -- Austere -- A heavy abacus -- Whirring -- Buoy -- (Maruyama) -- Cradle -- Llaw=Wall -- Chapter 2 -- The greatest light is the greatest shade.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Canvasback/Atlantic 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JOYSasha
Contents: Channel deq -- View2 -- Baracus -- Linepulse -- Time after time -- Detour -- Pontiac -- Casette sessions D -- Casette sessions E -- Healer -- Modcon -- Scarpa falls -- Warewolf -- Bring on the night-time -- Corvette -- Shelter -- Untitled 3 -- Abacus -- Rooms -- Broadcast -- Vapour trails.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SASMidthun, Joseph
Summary: "A graphic nonfiction volume that introduces critical basic subtraction concepts"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, a Scott Fetzer Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 513.2 MIDFelix, Rebecca
Summary: Details some of the patterns found at school, from books in order to beads on an abacus.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 152 FELSummary: Observe your child freely exploring and playing with the abacus. Count out loud for your child as they slid a bead across the board.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Melissa & Doug
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Endowed with an elementary representation mechanism, the human brain is naturally predisposed toward mathematics. This program seeks to understand the biological basis of humankind's "gift for math"-and why, beyond that baseline computational ability, some people are capable of scaling the highest peaks of mathematical comprehension. Experiments with animals, studies of very young children,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Schwartz, David M.
Summary: Explains the meaning of mathematical terms which begin with the different letters of the alphabet from abacus, binary, and cubit to zillion.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tricyle Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 510 SCHSummary: A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction. This groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer) Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVHouston, Keith
Summary: "The hidden history of the pocket calculator -- a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon -- and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life." -- back cover
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 510.28 HOUSummary: "Produced in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, SI Math Maker Lab is designed to appeal to math geeks and those that prefer practical projects. To complete these engaging projects, kids don't need to be math geniuses or even know how to use a calculator. Each task comes with easy-to-follow instructions, photographs, and illustrations to help whip up super cool mathematics creations!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Singer, Randy (Randy D.)
Summary: Bail Bondsman Clark Shealy has 48 hours to find an Indian professor in possession of the Abacus Algorithm--an equation so powerful it could crack all Internet encryption. Four years later, the case takes a vicious twist: law student Jamie Brock and two colleagues learn that their clients, members of the witness protection program, have the encrypted algorithm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SINBrown, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 006.3 BROLacey, Jane.
Summary: The ancient Greeks are still revered today for their contributions to the development of modern government, education, and social systems. Their architecture and art are studied from elementary school to college, as are their myths. This book serves as an introduction to the daily lives of ancient Greeks in addition to these key concepts while readers are invited to complete complementary...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 938 LACStarmer, Aaron
Summary: "It's the first day of the fourth grade at Arthimos Elementary and things are already off to a strange start--poisonous cookies, a zipline disaster, a missing iPad, and what are those strange sounds coming from the school custodian's wheelbarrow? Luckily the Prime Detectives--Abby "the Abacus" Feldstein, Cameron "Cam" McGill, and Gabriel "Gabe" Kim--are on the case! Using arithmetic, geometry,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Odd Dot 2023