Shadbolt, 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 SHAContents: Disc one, December 23, 1938 concert. Swingin' the blues / Count Basie, Eddie Durham, (Count Basie and his Orchestra) (3:34) -- One o'clock jump / Count Basie, (Count Basie & his Orchestra) (1:11) -- Introduction / John Hammond (0:38) -- Blues with Lips / Count Basie, (Oran "Hot Lips" Page, with Count Basie Orchestra) (3:11) -- I never knew / Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn, (Kansas City Five) (3:11) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FROSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATMassenet, Jules
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA THASummary: Jakob Eklund stars as tough Gothenburg cop, Johan Falk, in three films that introduced the character to audiences around the world --Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Svensk Filmindustri, Sonet Film, MHz Networks 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JOHSummary: A witty and gory Australian horror-comedy, 100 BLOODY ACRES stars Damon Herriman and Angus Sampson as Reg and Lindsay Morgan, brothers and partners in a struggling blood and bone fertilizer business. When Reg comes across three stranded travelers, he realized he may have found a radical solution to their supply problems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2013
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Summary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ShoCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHOContents: Blues in the blue of the night (Billy Barton) (2:30) -- Untied (Tommy Collins) (2:12) -- We're gonna bop (Alvadean Coker) (2:15) -- Go crazy man (Bill Woods) (1:57) -- Daddy loves mommyo (Tommy Duncan) (2:00) -- There ain't nothin' happenin' to me (Cliff Crofford) (2:18) -- Hot dog (Buck Owens as Corky Jones) (2:17) -- Don't go baby (Don't go) (Al Coker) (2:05) -- Let's go (Bonnie Blue Bell)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY OTHFormat: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dust-to-Digital 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Musical set in the 1890's about a professional matchmaker who meets her match.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HELSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: In Fireworks a dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a light and is drawn through the needle's eye to return less empty than before. Puce Moment reflects Anger's concerns with the myths and decline of Hollywood. Rabbit's moon, a fable of the unattainable (the Moon) combining elements of Commedia dell'Arte with Japanese myth. In Inauguration of the pleasure dome, members of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantoma Films 2007
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE FILSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: A convict leaves jail in Texas on a parole arranged by a crooked politician, and promptly joins his wife in planning a bank robbery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GETSummary: Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PowerCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POWSummary: Flint Lockwood is a young inventor who dreams of creating something that will improve everyone's life. Sam Sparks is a weathergirl covering the town's weather phenomenon, but chooses to hide her intelligence behind a perky exterior. Tim Lockwood is Flint's technophobic father. Brent is the town bully who has plagued Flint since childhood. Mayor Shelbourne exploits Flint's newest invention so he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CLOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CLOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLOSummary: A young blade runner's discovery of a long buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Although Buffalo Bill has fought Indians and Civil War battles, nothing can prepare him for his newest challenge: show business! His 'Wild West Show' is hugely popular, but when he signs a former enemy, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, for a featured role, a hysterical clash of cultures reverberates far beyond the boundaries of their sprawling outdoor theater. And the complications only multiply when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "When thief Gaston Monescu meets his true love in pickpocket Lily, they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet. But when Gaston becomes romantically entangled with Mme. Colet, their larcenous ruse is jeopardized and Gaston is forced to choose between two beautiful women"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TROSummary: A musical biography portrayal concerning the life and music of composer, Jerome Kern. Incorporates excerpts from several of his popular musicals including Showboat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Diamond Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TILSummary: Hotel Transylvania: "Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One special weekend, Dracula invites all his best friends--Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Werewolf family and more--to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis's 118th birthday. For Dracula, catering to all...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures 2015
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FAMSummary: In the sixth installment, the survivors of the Ghostface killings leave Woodsboro behind and start afresh in New York City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023