Milner, Greg
Summary: Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Omnipresent, free, and available to all, GPS powers everything from your phone to the Internet to the Mars Rover. Greg Milner tells the sweeping story of GPS, from its conceptual origins as a bomb guidance system to its present ubiquity. While GPS has revolutionized methods of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Various Artists.
Contents: Take on me (a-ha) -- We built this city (Starship) -- Sleeping bag (ZZ Top) -- Some like it hot (The Power Station) -- Everytime you go away (Paul Young) -- Walking on sunshine (Katrina and the Waves) -- Relax (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) -- Sea of love (The Honeydrippers) -- I want to know what love is (Foreigner) -- Miami Vice theme (Jan Hammer) -- The heat is on (Glenn Frey) -- California...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SouMiller, Greg
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Krause Publications 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2765 MILSummary: With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty utilizes a mix of live action and diverse forms of animation, a collage of documentary and fantasy, and interplay of effects, voices, and music to capture the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVESummary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: In the epic final season, Daryl and Maggie embark on a risky mission with Negan to root out the shadowy Reapers while Eugene and Ezekiel make contact with the sprawling Commonwealth. To secure aid for Alexandria, their goal, they must assimilate, a tough ask for people who have seen no end of deceit, betrayal, and loss. Stunned by the Commonwealth's resources, the group slowly adjusts to their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "For centuries, blue powders and dyes were some of the most sought-after materials in the world. Ancient Afghan painters ground mass quantities of sapphire rocks to use for their paints, while snails were harvested in Eurasia for the tiny amounts of blue that their bodies would release. And then there was indigo, which was so valuable that American plantations grew it as a cash crop on the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 535.6 BRESummary: Robocop: "Set in Detroit sometime in the near-future, the film is about a policeman killed in the line of duty, who the department decides to resurrect as a half-human, half-robot supercop. The robocop is indestructible, and within a matter of weeks he has removed crime from the streets of Detroit. However, his human side is tortured by his past, and he wants revenge on the thugs who killed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "AFTER TILLER intimately explores the highly controversial subject of third-trimester abortions in the wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. George Tiller. The procedure is now performed by only four doctors in the United States, all former colleagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day in the name of their unwavering commitment toward their patients. Directors Martha...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFTGlen, Iain
Summary: Set in Cornwall, a celebrity chef running a hotel with his second wife is having an affair with his ex-wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rlj Entertainment 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DELRemender, Rick.
Summary: "Tajo returns to her family home on Salus to find a city on the brink of devastation. There is no food, no air, no hope for mankind's last great domed city. Now, Tajo must fight for a future everyone else has given up on. Can mankind unite to survive the judgment of a merciless nuclear sun? Can we rise from the depths of despair to the promise of a unified tomorrow?"--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 REMSummary: We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMSummary: When Katie Mitchell, a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together. The Mitchells' plans are interrupted by a tech uprising: all around the world, the electronic devices people love decide it's time to take over. With the help of two friendly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MITSummary: "Haphazard pirates, wayward ghosts, dashing knights, rampaging kaiju (and down-to-earth regular joes!) are all assembled here to amaze and delight you in a wildly unique anthology celebrating love between men, from an astounding array of comics creators who know exactly how it feels. Featuring stories and art from SINA GRACE, NED BARNETT, ANTHONY OLIVEIRA, CHARLES PULLIAM-MOORE, NICK ROBLES,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A Wave Blue World, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 YOURemender, Rick
Summary: "Stel Caine rises from the depths to the sun-blasted surface of the Earth, the first human in millennia to do so. She's closer than ever to discovering the deep-space probe, which holds within it the potential to save all mankind. But eons of radiation have given birth to strange new life, and humans are no longer the dominant species here. Meanwhile, deep below the waves, Stel's daughters...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 REMSummary: Although they've saved countless lives thanks to The Machine's omniscience, Reese and Finch, along with lethal operative Shaw, and unpredictable cyber-hacker Root, now face an uncertain future. With a second machine, Samaritan, now online, the elusive team now find themselves as targets, hiding in plain sight.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PERSummary: "A young F.B.I. agent is assigned watchdog duty over a fellow agent, but finds herself drawn into his investigations of paranormal and unexplained phenomena."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV XContents: Hide and seek / Winley, Byrd (5:23) -- T.V. momma / Lou Willie Turner (6:24) -- Corrine, Corrina / Williams, Chatman, Parrish (3:28) -- Cherry red / Turner, Johnson (4:32) -- Shake, rattle and roll / Charles Calhoun (3:39) -- Since I fell for you / Budedy Johnson (4:36) -- Flip, flop & fly / Calhoun, Turner (4:28) -- Everyday I have the blues / Peter Chatman (6:15) -- Good morning blues /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ TURContents: CD 1. I'm the face / The High Numbers -- Bo Street runner / The Bo Street Runners -- Country line special / Cyril Davies & his R&B All Stars -- Chills and fever / Tom Jones -- Crawling up a hill / John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers -- You'd better make up your mind / The Koobas -- Desdemona / John's Children -- Tick tock / Shyster -- Wasn't it you / Billie Davis -- Bus stop / The Hollies -- Tell...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sy works in photo processing. His favorite customers are the Yorkin family. Sy dotes on the Yorkins whenever they drop off film to be processed and they are indulgent of Sy's attentions. What the Yorkins don't know is Sy has been obsessively making copies of their photos, imagining himself to be "Uncle Sy," a member of the family. Sy's tenuous hold on reality begins to collapse when he develops...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ONESummary: As little ones grow, so does their awareness of the world around them. In this season, discover and learn about animals, starting with the ones that children may encounter at home, to farm animals, all the way to the most unique of creatures from all seven continents!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BABSummary: Kate is a successful and single businesswoman who has long put her career ahead of a personal life. At 37, she's finally determined to have a child on her own. Unable to get pregnant, a driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. After learning that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode. She reads childcare books,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Baby 2008Summary: Presents a collection of stories by popular authors whose work inside and outside of the mystery genre has been influenced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2018