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AIDS Education (New York, N.Y.) Biological mind Dive team investigations 1 Geological series ; no. 14. Publication ; #v no. 17 Investigations in Chemistry Investigations in microbiology Investigations in physics Murder Investigation Team 1 Murder Investigation Team 2 Super simple earth investigationsKing, Barbara J.
Summary: Twenty-four 30 minute lectures detailing the evolution of humanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 KINSummary: Every day, nearly 7,000 people die in America, and the rate of autopsies - the gold standard of death investigation - has plummeted. As a result, not only do murderers go free and innocent people go to jail, but the crisis in death investigation in America is also a threat to public health. Frontline correspondent Lowell Bergman reports the results of a joint investigation with ProPublica, NPR,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2001
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford co., state printers 1914
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 508.774 MICColfer, Eoin.
Summary: Twelve-year-old private investigator Fletcher Moon, nicknamed "Half Moon" because of his shortness, must track down a conspiracy or be framed for a crime he did not commit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC COLSummary: Why is a cure so elusive? Why has it been so difficult to find a cure or vaccine for AIDS? What makes AIDS so deadly? What is the HIV virus, and how does it devastate the immune system? This eye-opening video explores these questions, providing fascinating insights into the unique qualities of the HIV virus that make AIDS such a relentless killer.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Miller, Judith
Summary: Presents an account of germ weaponry around the globe, including the Soviet Union's biological weapons program that contains an abundance of anthrax germs, and the United States' attempt to put an end to these efforts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 358 MILSummary: Documentary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Includes construction footage and interviews from major expeditions that have visited the wrecksite. This 50th anniversary edition includes shipyard workers, former crewmen, and new footage of the investigations that probed the icy depths to unlock the mystery of what happened to the 29 men. Each theory is explored complete with the technology...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Airworthy Productions 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Brusque DI Vivien Friend and intuitive DC Rosie MacManus lead an elite murder investigation team for London's Metropolitan Police. Reflecting the reality of police life, their work is part grueling procedure, part gut instinct.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MURBlackburn, Lynn Huggins
Summary: "After a harrowing experience with an obsessed patient, oncology nurse practitioner Leigh Weston needed a change. She thought she'd left her troubles behind when she moved home to Carrington, North Carolina, and took a job in the emergency department of the local hospital. But when someone tampers with her brakes, she fears the past has chased her into the present. She reaches out to her high...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY BLASummary: This program studies the biological processes by which the body reproduces cancerous tumors, and summarizes the results of current research. The various steps of metastasis are clearly demonstrated in film and computer animation. A film segment of real human tissue shows tumor cells moving in a regulated manner under the direction of "leader cells. Computer animation illustrates how a normal...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In the first lesson, five aqueous solutions are tested for degrees of acidity and alkalinity. The nature of acids and bases is examined. In lesson two, table salt is produced by mixing small pieces of aluminum with solutions of hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide. Current flow in acid, neutral, and alkaline solutions is demonstrated. An experiment using ammonia water and dry ice tests...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Using a bar magnet and compass; a neodymium magnet, soft iron, and a dumbbell; a ferrite magnet crushed into small pieces; a magnetized and broken knife blade; nails and a plastic plate with layers of aluminum, copper, and iron in-between; an iron bar, enamel wire, and a battery; and an ebonite bar, a wool cloth, and a leaf electroscope, this program investigates the following concepts:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Mixter, Ric
Summary: Thought you knew everything about the Edmund Fitzgerald? Go behind the scenes to learn more about the most famous shipwreck investigation in Great Lakes history. Ric Mixter opens his archive of conversations with the men who built, sailed and dove the Fitzgerald ; complete with the controversies and many unreleased photographs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Airworthy Productions 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9777 MIXSummary: There is growing evidence that chronic depression is primarily a physical disease and should be treated like one. This program sheds much-needed light on vulnerability to depression, the subtle symptoms of the disease, and treatments involving psychotherapy and antidepressants such as SSRIs. Brain biochemistry and the serotonin transporter promoter gene are discussed as well, and stories of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The pace of life has greatly increased, and the escalation of chronic stress is costing people their health, relationships, and careers. In this program, an immunologist, a psychiatrist, and a mental skills coach lay bare the symptoms of chronic stress, the negative impact on the body of continual exposure to adrenalin and cortisol, and biological and psychological factors that influence...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This investigation uses a candle placed between two mirrors; a laser and smoke lens; a water tank; a right-angle prism; a fiber-optic bundle; four planar mirrors; a convex lens; a coffee cup, a coin, and chopsticks; and a paraboloid mirror and a 3-D mouse to explore the following concepts: mirrors and image formation; convex and concave mirrors; straight line propagation and reflection of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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MacMaster, Greg.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 363.25 MACDaoud, Kamel.
Summary: "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAOSummary: Lesson one looks at copper atoms using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope connected to a computer. Several demonstrations of combustion include burning firecrackers under water. Lesson two shows combustion of an industrial diamond. Thermite reaction produces iron metal from iron oxide. Tatara, the traditional Japanese steelmaking process, is described. Lesson three studies chemical reactions...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Free radicals are an important weapon in the immune system, but they can also cause chemical reactions that lead to damage of fatty acids, DNA mutation, and protein destruction. This program examines how the most important radicals are created, and how they work. The relationship between chain reactions of radicals within the body and conditions such as arteriosclerosis is examined. How the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The first lesson provides examples of the Law of Conservation and Mass and the Law of Definite Proportions. Recycling of elements is examined. In lesson two, exothermic and endothermic reactions are demonstrated by an experiment that uses the chemical contents of a pocket warmer and dry ice. The third lesson includes demonstrations of oscillating reactions and clock reactions, as well as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program discusses how the chemical alteration of oncogenes in human cells causes the growth of cancerous tumors. Toxic substances, radiation, viruses, and inherited genetic defects are examined as factors causing such alteration. The mechanisms by which the altered forms overrule normal cell regulation are illustrated through microscope views and computer animation. Specific information is...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: By featuring a water rocket; a syringe and a toy pig; balloons; a drum; a fountain made of a flask and tubes; oil and beer cans lowered into the depths of the ocean; and an expedition that transports a glass tube filled with mercury up Mt. Fuji to 12,388 feet above sea level, this program helps to illustrate the following content: air pressure; equal force; vacuum; atmospheric pressure;...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005