Summary: Using engaging animation sequences to demonstrate core concepts, this program looks at the origins and development of our knowledge of direct current electricity. The video begins with the first uses of static electricity by the Greeks, then guides viewers through discoveries made by William Gilbert, Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, and others during subsequent centuries. Students will gain an...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Showing how interactions between magnetic fields lead to the production of motion, this program introduces viewers to the inner workings of DC motors. Topics include the work of Hans Christian Oersted, the creation of the first electric motor by Michael Faraday, and the rules for predicting field direction and forces on current carriers. The construction of a simple DC electric motor is shown...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
Summary: "In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, fourteen-year-old Charlotte wants to use her new drone to prove that Dottie, the elusive lake monster of Lake Dorothy, really exists."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANDPeterson, Lois J.
Summary: Leni has lived in so many different places in the last few years that she's not surprised when her mom wakes her in the middle of the night and tells her to pack up her things. The reason for this move? Her mom tells her they have won the lottery, and they have to go underground. Leni is still not surprised when they end up in a filthy motel. But when Leni makes a new friend and tries to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2015
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Summary: "Throughout human history, societies around the world have developed varying concepts of gender that affect the roles its citizens play in their communities. There is an equally rich history of individuals who reject, subvert, expand, or explore the gender roles of their society. This book serves as an accessible introduction to the history of gender and conversations on gender identity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.3 LIGPeterson, Lois J.
Summary: Since the death of his father, everyone has been telling Cam that he's the man of the house. Cam takes the responsibility seriously. But when the man who had been driving the truck that killed his father seems to be stalking his family, he is not sure he's up for the task.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2011
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Contents: Introduction: More women leaders, better leadership -- The 30% solution -- Modern myths and stereotypes -- The everywoman quiz -- Breaking out of the box -- Today's transformational leader -- Starting right here, right now -- Making women's power visible -- Lifting as we climb -- Wedging the door open -- Together, we rise -- Conclusion: Dreaming bigger dreams.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 TARHarrison, Cora.
Summary: Mara is celebrating the christening of her son in April of 1511 when she notices that three of her law students have disappeared from the party. The next morning one of them is found dead, and the other two, along with an important legal document, are missing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSummary: The story of a botched bank robbery that occurred August 22, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York and turned into a bizarre hostage situation lasting all day. The lead robber wishes to obtain funding for a sex-change operation for his gay lover.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DOGContents: Introduction: new confessions and revelations from the world of economic hit men / John Perkins -- Global empire: the web of control / Steven Hiatt -- Selling money-- and dependency: setting the debt trap / S.C. Gwynne -- Dirty money: inside the secret world of offshore banking / John Christensen -- BCCI's double game: banking on America, banking on jihad / Lucy Komisar -- The human cost of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1323 GAMEisler, Riane Tennenhaus.
Summary: Social scientist Eisler shows that the great problems of our time--such as poverty, inequality, war, terrorism, and environmental degradation--are due largely to flawed economic systems that set the wrong priorities and misallocate resources. Conventional economic models fail to value and support the most essential human work--caring and caregiving--so basic human needs are increasingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.12 EISHarrison, Cora
Summary: It was a macabre ending for an unjust judge: his throat slit by a sharp knife; his body stuffed into a lobster pot and left beneath a powerful jet of water shooting up through the cliffs from the turbulent Atlantic. When Mara, Brehon of the nearby kingdom of the Burren, comes to investigate, she knows that her first suspects have to be the five young men who had received such savage sentences...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARMcDonald, Kirsten
Summary: The Garcia's new refrigerator comes in a big box. Carlos and Carmen turn the box into a rocket, then a submarine. Then the twins finally decide to make the box a fort. But it's a crumpled fort. It's a flat fort. Discover how Carlos and Carmen don't let a flattened box ruin their fun!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020