Summary: To study and understand the motion of objects in space, students need to build a foundation of knowledge in a wide variety of physical science phenomena. This program demonstrates typical mechanics situations common to many physics courses, such as circular motion, projectile motion, straight line motion, and inclined plane motion. Describing these motions in terms of forces and energy...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Pleasing the eye is important, but a skilled designer also pays attention to the consumer's mind, emotions, and needs. This program explores the basic elements of design and how they can be manipulated to create powerful visual and interactive experiences. Detailing the properties of line, shape, tone, point, texture, color, and letterform-and how designers organize these elements through...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In order to be a competent pilot, one must develop a thorough understanding of how and why a plane flies, as well as the forces that affect the flight of an aircraft. This video gives viewers just that. It outlines the forces of Lift and Gravity on an aircraft and goes on to describe how different structures on the plane are used to control these forces. Experts on aeronautics and flight give...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Provides an overview of the history of dance in the Baroque period and explores the elements that help illuminate the historical preservation of dance. Examines the creative process through dance notation, arm embellishments, spatial patterns, the dance-music relationship, and artistic interpretation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dancetime Production 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.3 ARTSummary: This second video in the Principles of Flight series focuses on the forces of Thrust and Drag and how each can affect flight. Viewers then learn how pilots manuever through these forces using primary and secondary instruments which create movement around the three axes of flight. Key terms such as wing tip vortices, pitch, yaw, and roll are explained in detail, giving a clearer understanding of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Covers allergies, defined as hypersensitivity to the immune system, and immune disorders, which are dysfunctions of the immune system classified as different from allergies based on immune system disorders. Entries explore allergies to common allergens, like pollen and certain foods, as well as a variety of immune disorders, such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. Coverage includes causes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Reference, Call number: Reference 616.079 Buratovich 2021Shango Dance Band
Contents: Position pass power -- Women are great -- I need your love -- Son of thunder -- Alupandu-gbe
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Traffic Entertainment Group 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN SHALe Corre, Erwan
Summary: "In the groundbreaking book, Erwan Le Corre, the founder of MovNat, helps you reconnect with moving as your ancestors did. "Working out" in a gym using machines would have seemed nonsensical to them. Why not just move your body in the way it was designed to move in order to accomplish the tasks required by everyday life? Having guidance and feedback form an instructor is useful, but in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Victory Belt Publishing Inc. 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Enter the world of Ohad Naharin and the Batsheva Dance Company. A man with an extraordinary vision, Naharin is regarded as one of the most important choreographers in the world today. He is known for developing "Gaga"--a movement language that resists labels, highlights somatic experience, emphasizes improvisation, and pushes dancers to use their body in ways that are ignored or overlooked by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MR.Mauskovic Dance Band
Contents: Buckaroo bank -- Face -- Wie niet weg is is gezien -- Parata est -- Zwaar -- Bebi -- People in the hall -- Dr Rhythm Space -- Telefoon dub -- Samen -- Buckaroo bank (slow version) -- Slow crack.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL RHYTHM AND BLUES MAUSummary: Early musical notation was much like a road map that lacked names or places. The use of neumes gave the basic shape of the tune and a primitive notion of rhythm, but could not tell the performer what note to start on. This program shows how all of that changed around the year 1030, when the choirmaster Guido of Arezzo came up with the simple device of a thin red line: a dot directly on it would...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Gunther von Hagens, the world's leading expert in human dissection, reveals the kinetic framework of the body in this program-as well as the neural expressway that enables the structure to move. Von Hagens' dissection shows how the skeleton operates like a system of levers, giving viewers a detailed look at the shape, composition, and mobility of bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Dalio, Ray
Summary: In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history. Dalio himself has appeared on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Along the way, Dalio discovered a set of unique principles that have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 651 DALCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 651 DALSummary: When Tanja Liedtke, the new artistic director of Sydney Dance Company, died in an accident, Rafael Bonachela and two other internationally renowned choreographers were quickly engaged to temporarily fill that void by creating one work each during 2008 - from, as it were, a blank canvas. Bonachela subsequently applied for and won the artistic director position, and this program maps out the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Sáenz, Benjamin Alire
Summary: "Aristotle and Dante continue their journey to manhood in this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2021
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAESummary: As NASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African American leaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund "space joyrides" rather than help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home. This volume examines such tensions as well as the ways in which NASA's goal of space exploration aligned with the cause of racial equality. Essays provide new insights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.4 NASSummary: UC Berkeley biologist Robert Full is fascinated with cockroach legs that allow them to scuttle at full speed across loose mesh and gecko feet that have billions of nano-bristles to run straight up walls. In this TEDTalk, Full discusses his research on the biomechanics of animal locomotion and his efforts to design the perfect robotic "distributed foot." "Dr Full cheerfully admits that some of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Simon, Rita J. (Rita James)
Contents: Introduction, by R. J. Simon.--Radicalism in the thirties: the Trotskyist view, by M. Shachtman.--The Huey Long movement, by G. L. K. Smith.--Writers in the thirties, by G. Hicks.--The thirties in America as a Socialist recalls them, by N. Thomas.--My experience in the labor and radical struggles of the thirties, by A. J. Muste.--The student movement of the thirties: a political history, by H....
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 SIMGoodman, Joe.
Summary: "WE WANT 'BAMA! is a portrait of the most powerful coach in modern sports and the inside story of how Nick Saban hijacked the universe of college football and steered it into an alternate reality where the Crimson Tide now lords over the sport like an angry god. A national brand, Alabama football has transcended the sport to become synonymous with unrivaled success. Over the past decade, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sport Team GoodmanSummary: Trying to create a device that can measure the flow of heat at a quantum level, postdoctoral student Keith Schwab confronts the uncertainty principle not only in physics but in life as well. This program follows the arduous quest of a charismatic young physicist and the personal price of his dedication to a long-term goal. Working at Caltech with his mentor, Professor Michael Roukes, Keith sees...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Quad City DJ's (Musical group)
Contents: C'mon n' ride it (the train) -- Work baby work (the prep) -- Let's do it -- Quad City funk -- Hey DJ -- Stomp-n-grind (featuring The 69 Boyz) -- Get on up and dance -- Summer jam -- Party over here -- The bass - - Move to this -- Ride that bass -- C'mon n' ride it (the train) dance remix.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic/Big Beat 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC QUAMussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
Contents: Songs and dances of death. Lullaby (4;56) ; Serenade (4:27) ; Trepak (4:54) ; The field-marshal (5:29) -- Symphony no. 14. De profundis (García Lorca) (4:47) ; Malagueña (García Lorca) (2:51) ; Lorelei (Apollinaire) (9:06) ; The suicide (Apollinaire) (8:02) ; On watch (Apollinaire) (3:13) ; Madam, look! (Apollinaire) (2:17) ; At the Santé Jail (Apollinaire) (9:17) ; The Zaporozhian Cossacks'...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL SHOKeene, Carolyn.
Summary: Nancy and her friends investigate when it appears the auditions for the new reality television program "Kids Can Dance" are being sabotaged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KEESummary: "In 1930s Bolivia, self-described Anarchist Cholas form a libertarian trade union. In the Northern Highlands of Vietnam, the songs of one girl's youth lead her to a life of activism. In the Philippines, female elders from Kalinga blaze a trail when pushed into an impromptu protest. Equally striking accounts from, Chile, Ecuador, India, Nepal, and Peru weave a tapestry of trauma and triumph,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2022