Summary: This program looks at the various areas that brain researchers are now exploring: What kind of brain chemistry can explain memory? If long-term memory is a kind of permanent pattern on the fabric of the mind, what structural changes occur in the brain? Are different types of memory located in different areas of the brain? Are specific memories stored in separate places? What is the process of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Study of the brain provides some of the answers that separate cultural and social from physiological distinctions between the sexes. Mammalian brains, including our own, show distinct differences between male and female in the thickness of the cortex and the size of the corpus callosum. The program shows some startling effects of hormone injections on brain structure and raises provocative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Green, Sara
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about Nerf. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 790.1 GRESummary: This program explains research on the brain's processes: how individual parts of the brain work, how the brain uses pattern recognition rather than logic to interpret reality, which experiments with computer analogs have been successful and which have failed, and why. The program also provides interviews with some of the foremost researchers in the field, including neuroscientist John Hopfield,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This documentary takes viewers on a tour of the world's most prolific manufacturer and user of drugs-the human brain. The biochemistry of the brain is responsible for joggers' highs, for the compulsion of some people to seek thrills, for certain kinds of obsessive-compulsive behavior, even for the drive to achieve power and dominance. The program explores developments in the biochemistry of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: One day very soon, ordinary people could have the ability to choose their children's genes and perhaps even grow themselves completely new body parts. In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent Robert Krulwich examine the breakthrough science behind cloning and delve into the ethical dilemmas surrounding advances in genetic science. Interviews with Harvard's Stephen Jay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This program examines the biological evolution of our internal timekeepers, examining the conflict between the time in our bodies and brains and the time on our wrists. It looks at the fish with the most accurate pacemaker known to science; shows how cell cycles are being tracked and biological clocks transplanted; reveals the novel ways in which human biological clocks are being reset; and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Green, Sara
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about John Deere. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338 GREGreen, Sara
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about Google Inc. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338 GRESummary: Why do dreams occur? What is their function? What do they mean? This provocative program looks at the facts and examines the theories, from Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams to today's neuroscience laboratory findings. The program visits a sleep research lab to explain REM sleep; another lab where researchers are using positron emission tomography (PET scanning) to explore the dreaming...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Green, Sara
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about Nintendo. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 794.8 GREGreen, Sara
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about Barbie. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2017
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Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about Lego. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 338.7 GREDelany, Vicki
Summary: "Paramedic Ashley Grant finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation while in the Victoria and Albert Islands in this work of crime fiction."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Raven Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELBehrens, Janice
Summary: Teaches multiculturalism by comparing faces, clothes, food, and words from around the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 BEHVincent, Rachel
Summary: Dahlia thinks all of her clones have been destroyed, but then discovers that one still exists--Waverly Whitmore, who is teenage royalty, a media sensation with millions of fans--who has no idea that she is a clone.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VINBuckley, James
Summary: Includes super photos, sensational stats, and fascinating profiles of nine of the hottest NBA stars, including Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers, Kevin Garnett of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Jason Kidd of the New Jersey Nets, and Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR BLUE BUCRylant, Cynthia.
Summary: Henry, his dog Mudge, and his parents go on a quiet camping trip to Big Bear Lake, enjoying the clean smell of trees and wonderful green dreams.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2002
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE HENAhlberg, Allan.
Summary: A young boy named Banjo Cannon always eats a sausage for dinner, until the night that his sausage--and the rest of his meal--runs away.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE RUNAsim, Jabari
Summary: John Lewis wants to be a preacher when he grows up a leader whose words stir hearts to change, minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So he preaches to his flock, and they listen, content under his watchful care, riveted by the rhythm of his voice.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction Asim 2017Dewdney, Anna.
Summary: Little Excavator wants to help the big rigs transform a vacant lot into a neighborhood park, but he's too small to get the job done! That is, until he finds a job that's a perfect Little E-sized task.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction Dewdney 2017Ganz-Schmitt, Sue.
Summary: A young child imagines kindergarten as a mission in space, with his fellow kindernauts, and this is their one hundredth day.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE PLARylant, Cynthia
Summary: Mr. Putter and his fine cat, Tabby, and Mrs. Teaberry and her good dog, Zeke, head for the sledding slope for the wildest ride ever. Maybe winter is not so slow after all!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE MR.Schachner, Judith Byron.
Summary: Skippyjon Jones is a Siamese cat with an overactive imagination who would rather be El Skippito, his Zorro-like alter ego.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004