Queens of the Stone Age
Contents: Regular John -- Avon -- If only -- Walkin on the sidewalks -- You would know -- The bronze -- How to handle a rope (a lesson in the lariat) -- Mexicola -- Hispanic impressions -- You can't quit me baby -- These aren't the droids you're looking for -- Give the mule what he wants -- Spiders and vinegaroons -- I was a teenage hand model.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ipecac Recordings/Rekords Rekords 2010
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK QUERage Against the Machine (Musical group)
Contents: Bombtrack -- Killing in the name -- Take the power back -- Settle for nothing -- Bullet in the head -- Know your enemy -- Wake up -- Fistful of steel -- Township rebellion -- Freedom.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Epic Associated 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM Rage 1992Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RAGBrynjolfsson, Erik.
Summary: A pair of technology experts describe how humans will have to keep pace with machines in order to become prosperous in the future and identify strategies and policies for business and individuals to use to combine digital processing power with human ingenuity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.48 BRYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 BRYSONS OF THE PIONEERS
Contents: When pay day rolls around -- Sagebrush symphony -- Song of the bandit -- Ne-ha-nee -- The howlin' pup -- Rocky Mountain Express -- One more ride -- So long to the Red River Valley -- Coyote serenade -- South in my soul -- Cool water -- Rainbow over the range -- Happy cowboy -- The Texas crapshooter -- At the old barn dance -- Move along you lazy cattle -- Swingin' the bow -- Whoopee ti yi yo --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soundies/Bloodshot 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY SONSummary: Are advocates of the intelligent design theory really creationists in disguise? To what extent has the I.D. argument widened America's cultural divide? And if a clear winner emerges, who loses? This program thoroughly examines those questions, describing the theory's quasi-scientific origins and documenting the Pennsylvania court battle over teaching I.D. in biology classes. A historical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Bova, Ben
Summary: "Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it. A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy's core twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVStackpole, Michael A.
Summary: Efforts of the three grandchildren of royal cartographer Qiro Anturasi, a master mapmaker whose unparalleled magical ability allows him to reshape the landscape of reality, to save their world from destruction. Major threats include an undead, soulless prince hell-bent on usurping the crown from his empress stepmother and a vengeance-obsessed elder god determined to undo all of creation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAGoodie Mob (Musical group)
Contents: U don't know what you got (intro) (feat. Big Rube) -- State of the art (Radio killa) -- Power -- Silence-- the new hate (interlude) -- I'm set -- Valleujah -- Pinstripes (feat. T.I.) -- Special education (feat. Janelle Monae) -- Ghost of Gloria Goodchild -- Kolors -- Come as you are -- Nexperiance -- The both of me (feat. Big Fraze) -- Balls (interlude) -- Amy (feat. V) -- Understanding (feat....
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Right Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP GOORid, Thomas
Summary: "Springing from the febrile mind of mathematician Norbert Wiener amid the devastation of World War II, the cybernetic vision underpinned a host of seductive myths about the future of machines. This vision would radically transform the postwar world, ushering in sweeping cultural change. From the Cold War's monumental SAGE bomber defense system to enhanced humans, Wiener's scheme turned...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 600 RIDSmashing Pumpkins (Musical group)
Contents: The everlasting gaze -- Raindrops + sunshowers -- Stand inside your love -- Of the mourning -- The sacred and profane -- Try, try, try -- Heavy metal machine -- This time -- The imploding voice -- Glass and the ghost children -- Wound -- The crying tree of mercury -- With every light -- Blue skies bring tears -- Age of innocence.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin Records America 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SMAQueens of the Stone Age
Contents: CD: You think I ain't worth a dollar, but I feel like a millionaire -- No one knows -- First it giveth -- Song for the dead -- The sky is fallin' -- Six shooter -- Hangin' tree -- Go with the flow -- Gonna leave you -- Do it again -- God is in the radio -- Another love song -- A song for the deaf -- Mosquito song (hidden track).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK QUEWebb, Amy
Summary: "Synthetic biology is the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence, opening up the potential to program biological systems much as we program computers. Synthetic biology enables us not just to readand edit DNA - the technique of CRISPR - but also write it. Rather than life being "a beautiful game of chance", synthetic biology creates the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.8 WEBArtist Not Provided
Summary: Shows heavy-duty machinery in action, including a grape harvester, a ladle crane and a printing press.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: NCircle Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Meyer, Stephen C.
Summary: Charles Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. In what is known today as the "Cambrian explosion," 530 million years ago many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin's Doubt Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 MEYGraham, Benjamin
Summary: Benjamin Graham taught the philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies. Over the years, market developments have proven Graham's strategies. While preserving Graham's original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness Essentials 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 GRAShadbolt, Nigel
Summary: The smart-machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies, but we are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of super-intelligent robots of our own creation. We were using tools before we became Homo Sapiens, and will continue to build and master them, no matter how complicated they become. How we exercise that control - in our private lives, in employment, in politics - and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.301 SHASmith, Siân.
Summary: Brief text and photographs examine a wide range of machines used at the airport, including airplanes, staircases on wheels, scanners, conveyor belts, and radar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Heinemann Library 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629 SMISexton, Colleen A.
Summary: "The sun sets, and an aye-aye wakes up! Learn all about how the awesome aye-aye survives the forest at night"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.8 SEXPicoult, Jodi
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Delilah is finally united with Oliver. There are, however, complications now that Oliver has been able to enter the real world. To exist in Delilah's world, Oliver must take the place of a regular boy. Enter Edgar, who agrees to take Oliver's role in Delilah's favorite book. In this multilayered universe, the line between what is on the page and what is possible is blurred, but...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICSummary: Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page offer a peek inside the "Google machine" in this TEDTalk, sharing tidbits of information about international search patterns, the philanthropic Google Foundation, and the company's dedication to innovation and employee happiness. Now two of the world's wealthiest people, Brin and Page still play an active role in the company, encouraging fresh...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Hockfield, Susan
Summary: Outlines the next technology revolution and how it will change human life, drawing on the latest discoveries in biology and engineering to profile such innovations as computer-engineered crops, protein-based water filters, and cancer-detecting nanoparticles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The balance of nature" is a widely-held belief that ecosystems function cooperatively rather than hierarchically, gradually adjusting for change - a concept that was co-opted by early computer scientists and hippies alike. This program examines that concept and how its mechanistic but egalitarian philosophy came to permeate the zeitgeist of the mid-20th century, only to be debunked later on as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Husain, Amir
Summary: Explores universal questions about humanity's capacity for living and thriving in the coming age of sentient machines and AI, examining debates from opposing perspectives while discussing emerging intellectual diversity and its potential role in enabling a positive life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 HUSYin Yin.
Contents: Satya Yuga -- Chong Wang -- Shenzou V. -- Faiyadansu -- Declined By Universe -- Nautilus -- The Age Of Aquarius -- Kali Yuga.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Glitterbeat Records 2022