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Beautiful minds Climate and man Mass effect Protecting the oceans The hypnotists 3 True bookSummary: The story of the photoelectric effect is an ongoing one, from its discovery in 1887 to its use in a myriad of today's devices, such as cameras and cell phones. This program tells that story, charting the contributions of Hertz, Lenard, Planck, and Einstein, while making use of actual experiments, clever demonstrations, and formulas that describe each aspect of a crucial physics phenomenon....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Grunbaum, Mara
Summary: "The Book describes the greenhouse effect"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.738 GRUSummary: A life-sustaining envelope of gas surrounds the earth. This atmosphere contains oxygen, CO2, water vapor, and other gases-it is what generates climate, which affects all living beings. This program analyzes the sun's gradual brightening and the relationship between sunlight and CO2, explains why the atmospheres of Mars and Venus cannot sustain life, theorizes about the disappearance of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Korman, Gordon
Summary: "Is it a gift or is it a curse? Jax Opus can use his color-changing eyes to make people do what he wants. But soon Jax is pulled into a dangerous conspiracy devised by a mysterious group...and now they're going to make Jax do what THEY want." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KORMemoryhouse (Musical group)
Contents: Little expressionless animals -- The kids were wrong -- All our wonder -- Punctum -- Heirloom -- Bonfire -- Pale blue -- Walk with me -- Kinds of light -- Old haunts.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sub Pop 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MEMFlowers, Brandon
Contents: Dreams come true -- Can't deny my love -- I can change -- Still want you -- Between me and you -- Lonely town -- Diggin' up the heart -- Never get you right -- Untangled love -- The way it's always been.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Island 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FLOSummary: How serious is the "greenhouse effect" on global climate and the environment? Very, says Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews, a Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics. We are now facing the specter of the "greenhouse effect," the prospect of overloading the earth's atmosphere with gases released when industrial nations burn fossil fuels like coal and oil, and the Third World strips its forests to farm...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Hardy, Darren.
Summary: The Compound Effect is an operating system that shows how small, smart choices, plus consistency, plus time, equal a radical difference in ones life. By exploring our choices, habits, momentum and influences, this book is the plan, the guide, the map that shows you how to get and stay on the path to success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Press 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Chopra, Deepak.
Summary: "The shadow is a part of the unconscious mind consisting of repressed weaknesses and base instincts. "Everyone carries a shadow," Jung wrote, "and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is." Now today's most popular spiritual teachers, Debbie Ford, Marianne Williamson, and Deepak Chopra join forces in this remarkable exploration of the dark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 154.2 CHOGreen Day
Contents: Brutal love -- Missing you -- 8th Avenue serenade -- Drama queen -- X-Kid -- Sex, drugs & violence -- A little boy named Train -- Amanda -- Walk away -- Dirty rotten bastards -- 99 revolutions -- The forgotten.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRESummary: Mute until the age of nine, Stephen Wiltshire learned to communicate through realistic, richly detailed drawings. Alonzo Clemens sculpts clay animal figures with great precision, even though he can barely form a sentence. Matt Savage faced extraordinary developmental problems as a child but has become a teen prodigy among jazz musicians. What is the relationship between creativity and autistic...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Shalabi Effect
Contents: Sunday ash -- Saint Orange -- Mr. Titz (The revelator) -- One last glare -- Sister sleep -- Uma -- A glow in the dark.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alien8 Recordings 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SHALutz, Amy S. F.
Summary: "In her 2006 memoir Strange Son, Portia Iversen coined the phrase "intact mind" to describe the typical cognitive abilities she believed were buried within even the most seemingly impaired autistic individuals, like her son Dov - who, at nine years old, was completely nonverbal and spent much of his time "chewing on blocks and tapping stones." Although he didn't know the alphabet, colors, or...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 LUTShalabi Effect
Contents: Out of the closet -- Pai Nai -- Early reptilian memories -- Monobrow -- Half life -- Beluga -- Harpie -- Vegas radiation -- Skin job.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alien 8 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHASummary: As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic adventure throughout the galaxy. Discover the imminent danger from an ancient threat and battle the traitorous Saren and his deadly army to save civilization.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Microsoft Game Studios 2009
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1 available in Video Games, Call number: GAME XBOX360 MASLaPrade, Robert F.
Summary: "From prominent experts in orthopedics and sports medicine, a comprehensive guide for anyone with knee injury or chronic knee pain: how injuries occur, how to treat problems, and how to return to the life and sports you love." -- from Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Long Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.5 LAPWalters, Mac.
Summary: Mass Effect 2 & 3 lead writer Mac Walters returns with an essential story from BioWare's massively anticipated video game Mass Effect 3! The Omega space station is the center of lawlessness in the galaxy, a den of vice ruled by the deadly asari Aria. It is also a strategic foothold in a galaxy-wide power struggle, and when the station comes under attack from a new threat unleashed by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2012
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Schatzker, Mark.
Summary: "In The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker shows us how our approach to the nation's number one public health crisis has gotten it wrong. The epidemics of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are not tied to the overabundance of fat or carbs or any other specific nutrient. Instead, we have been led astray by the growing divide between flavor--the tastes we crave--and the underlying nutrition" --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 SCHHerman, Todd
Summary: Shows how to tap into the human imagination to unleash new versions of ourselves. Presents stories from salespeople, executives, entertainers, athletes, entrepreneurs, creatives, and historical figures to illustrate how to unleash the Heroic Self already nested in each of us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 HERJensen, Robert A.
Summary: "The owner of the world's leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the yellow tape, and explores what it means to be human after a lifetime of caring for the dead. You have seen Robert A. Jensen-you just never knew it. As theowner of the world's largest disaster management company, he has spent most of his adult life responding to tragedy. From the Oklahoma City...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.34 JENSummary: This program focuses on the cultural effects of television broadcasting in India. It examines the rapid rise of satellite TV and cable channels and discusses their role in altering Indian perceptions about caste, class, and gender. Interviews with Indian academics and representatives from TV and film are combined with specific information on TV viewing habits in urban and rural locations in India.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Costa Rica's motto is Pura Vida, Pure Life, and this deceptively small country is bursting with some of the most spectacular wildlife and pristine ecosystems in the world. All this diversity thrives, in part, thanks to one surprising little creature: hummingbirds. Venture across Costa Rica's wild and rugged landscapes, from volcanic peaks to coastal jungle to misty cloud forests and discover...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HUMMcCahan, Erin
Summary: "The summer after senior year of high school, Briggs Henry works as a personal assistant to an eccentric elderly woman in a house on the shores of Lake Michigan, and finds himself distracted by the mysterious girl next door"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCCHyde, Natalie
Summary: "Climate change is one of the most serious threats to the world's oceans causing ecosystem damage, coastal erosion, and ocean acidification. This necessary title explores these effects and the worldwide efforts to reduce them. From youth leaders to global organizations, learn how people work together to protect the oceans from the effects of climate change - and get motivated to take action in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2021