Summary: This documentary explores Egypt's awe-inspiring engineering accomplishments through the prism of its pharaohs' indomitable personalities. As Egypt's pharaohs alternately conquered and ceded vast expanses of land, they pushed their royal architects to stretch the boundaries of imagination and human potential, in effect inventing the science of structural engineering. Follow the empire's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2006

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EGY

Summary: An overbearing king learns that being overprotective of his daughters is as unwise as being too permissive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Starmaker II, LCC 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DAN

Summary: When a ruthless mastermind known as Khan ... declares a one-man war on the Federation, Captain Kirk ..., Spock ..., and the daring crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise will embark on the greatest manhunt in history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu3D DVD Movie Star

Summary: William Burroughs: the Beats éminence grise, "literary outlaw," culture hero to generations of poets, musicians, artists, and filmmakers who had their minds blown by his 1959 classic, banned-in-America "Naked Lunch." This film covers his life in a straightforward manner, but the portrait drawn is at odds with the character who wrote in outlandish graphic detail about then-forbidden sexuality in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Yonilizer Productions 2011

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WIL

Summary: Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE NAK

Summary: "Circles the globe to re-examine history's most magnificent civilizations by surveying the architectural and engineering triumphs they left behind" -- Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2007

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ENG

Summary: 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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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ROB

Pelzer, David J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 PEL