Johnson, Steven
Summary: "As a species, humans have doubled their life expectancy in one hundred years. Medical breakthroughs, public health institutions, rising standards of living, and the other advances of modern life have given each person about 20,000 extra days on average.This book attempts to help the reader understand where that progress came from and what forces keep people alive longer. The author also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 JOHJohnson, Steven
Summary: "From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 JOHJohnson, Steven
Summary: "From the New York Times-bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at he world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes along-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Steven Johnson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 JOHJohnson, Steven.
Summary: One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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Johnson, Steven
Summary: The $10 billion video gaming industry is now the second-largest segment of the entertainment industry in the United States, outstripping film and far surpassing books. Reality television shows featuring silicone-stuffed CEO wannabes and bug-eating adrenaline junkies dominate the ratings. But prominent social and cultural critic Steven Johnson argues that our popular culture has never been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 JOHJohnson, Steven
Summary: "How did a single manhunt spark the modern era of multinational capitalism? Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular--and wildly inaccurate--reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Avery's most lasting legacy was his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 JOHJohnson, Steven
Summary: "The hardest choices are also the most consequential. So why do we know so little about how to get them right? Big, life-altering decisions matter so much more than the decisions we make every day, and they're also the most difficult: where to live, whom to marry, what to believe, whether to start a company, how to end a war. There's no one-size-fits-all approach for addressing these kinds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.8 JOHJohnson, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 003.7 JOHPorter, Bill
Summary: n 1989, Bill Porter, having spent much of his life studying and translating Chinese religious and philosophical texts, began to wonder if the Buddhist hermit tradition still existed in China. At the time, it was believed that the Cultural Revolution had dealt a lethal blow to all religions in China, destroying countless temples and shrines, and forcibly returning thousands of monks and nuns to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2009
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Summary: Presents information about space, including how fast the Earth is spinning, how many galaxies there are, and how many exoplanets have been discovered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In order to save his dying father, Johnny Blaze, a young stunt cyclist, sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from Roxanne, the girl he loves. Years later, Johnny's path crosses again with Roxanne, who is now a reporter. He, also, crosses paths with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny's soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery Ghost Rider, a supernatural agent of vengeance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Ghost 2007Summary: Ever since doctors proclaimed Simon Birch's birth as a miracle, Simon's sure he's going to be a hero, he's just not sure how.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An ambitious young New Yorker, disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome, where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of an odd group of suitors: a sausage magnate, a street magician, an adoring painter, and a self-admiring model. But when a charming reporter pursues her with equal zest, how will she know if his love is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHESummary: Inspired by the true story of the biggest bank heist of all time, Harry Barber recounts how in 1972 a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempted to steal $30 million in illegal campaign contributions from President Richard Nixon's secret fund. But the plan quickly goes sideways, prompting the biggest manhunt in FBI history with more than 125 agents assigned to the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY FINFoster,Steven and Johnson,Rebecca L
Summary: Before formal science enabled a systematic approach to medicine, healers used plants to alleviate pain, ease the symptoms of diseases, and treat complaints of every kind. Today, people still use medicinal plants, in traditional roles or as building blocks for new research and innovative drugs. Featuring 350 full-color photographs, botanical drawings, and maps, this book is based on the work of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: On the verge of making it big, long-struggling musician Jack Frost suddenly realizes he's missing something vital: time with his wife and young son Charlie. But before Jack can make up for lost time, he swerves off an icy mountain road. Then, one cold winter's night, Jack magically returns as a walking, talking, ski-slope-shredding snowman. Determined to be the father he always wanted to be,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY JACCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JACSummary: One of television's finest police dramas returns in the seventh season. The season seven sees the continuing relationship between Danny Sorenson and his not-so-new partner Andy Sipowicz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NYPSummary: Next-door neighbors John Gustafson and Max Goldman are neighborhood curmudgeons whose long-running feud becomes an all-out rilvary when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Embark on the ultimate action adventure that spans continents and explores ancient history. Follow the exhilarating journeys and exploits of daring explorer Rick O'Connell and his family as they combat the evil undead from the dusty tombs of ancient Egypt to the hidden catacombs of China.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 'Blue takes you to school': Periwinkle is excited for his first day of school, but he is also a little nervous too. Luckily, he's got good friends coming with him. In 'Numbers everywhere': from refrigerator magnets to backyard flowers, everyone is counting in Joe and Blue's house. In 'Blue's ABC's': It's reading time at Steve and Blue's house and there is so much to R-E-A-D! In 'Math!':...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BLUSummary: Dove Award winner Tauren Wells is back with the follow-up to his hit debut album. His latest includes the single Like You Love Me as well as appearances from Kirk Franklin and Rascal Flatts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CHRISTIAN WELBarnes, Steven
Summary: "From award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of Buddha. Eight strangers looking for enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher are trapped in a cave high in the mountains on their way to his temple. One of his acolytes directs them to each tell a story that the group can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BARSummary: All of our friends are pretending to be different occupations, and we play Blue's Clues to figure out what Blue wants to be. Steve, who is being a reporter for the day, needs our help figuring out what occupations our other friends are pretending to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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Summary: A resource organized by body system lists the key herbal remedies available, their uses, and cautionary advice, in a book that includes full-color photos, a glossary and several thematic indexes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2010