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"Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda's ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career--after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator. Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops her...and claims they've met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she's mourning, why she's there. And he needs Mariana to remember everything he's saying. But just as they figure out this new life,...
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English
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"A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space--not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its...
Publisher
Legacy Distribution
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (43 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
Description
It's a genius story that all started with a silly word, Google. Before September 4, 1998, searching the internet was nearly impossible. Today 'Google' is so ingrained into daily life, it is used as a verb by many to communicate, perform work, consume media, gain knowledge, and maneuver the endless world wide web. Yet while most may know Google, few know the story of the revolution's geniuses. Follow masterminds, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, whose brilliance...
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Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
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9 audio discs (11 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Massively damaged, the synthetic Bishop asked to be shut down forever. His creator, Michael Bishop, has other plans. He seeks the Xenomorph knowledge stored in the android's mind and brings Bishop back to life, but for what reason? No longer an employee of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, Michael tells his creation that he seeks to advance medical research for the benefit of humanity. Yet where does he get the resources needed to advance his work....
5) The loop
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Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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First Saga Press hardcover edition.
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306 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Spiderman: Venom meets The Walking Dead with a diverse cast of teenage protagonists trying to survive the night in a town overcome by a scientific breakthrough that has rapidly gone incredibly wrong. A small town in Western Oregon becomes the epicenter of an epidemic of violence as the teenage daughters and sons of several executives who happen to work at the biotech firm nestled in the hills have become ill, and oddly, aggressively, murderous"--
Turner...
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The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (166 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Tells the story of a group of rival engineers who created a revolution in transportation and forever changed the world in the process. These are the dramatic stories behind the biggest names in the auto industry.
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (166 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Tells the story of a group of rival engineers who created a revolution in transportation and forever changed the world in the process. These are the dramatic stories behind the biggest names in the auto industry.
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Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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As of today, we are still sending messages to the stars: messages that, so far, have not been answered. For more than 50 years, we've been unsuccessfully searching for any evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. But, the discovery of thousands of exoplanets has meant the hope of finding them is higher than ever. First contact with alien intelligence will become a reality in the future, so we must understand how to communicate. What kind of...
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PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Elon Musk's long and often troubled relationship with Twitter. Musk's journey from one of the platform's most provocative users to its sole proprietor, exploring the acquisition, free speech and the company's uncertain future.
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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436 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away--no climate change, no war, no Twitter--beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critically acclaimed, bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to write the essential guide to a glorious future of space settlements, but after years of research, they aren't so sure it's a good idea. Space technologies and space business are progressing...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
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9 audio discs (10 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Sen Anon is assigned to be a witness for the Department of Transition, recording the changes in the environment as the world begins to rewild. Abandoned by her mother in a cabin somewhere in Upstate New York, Sen will observe the monumental ecological shift known as the Great Transition, the final step in Project Afterworld. Around her drones buzz, cameras watch, microphones listen, digitizing her every move. Privately she keeps a journal of her observations,...
12) Yakka Dee
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BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (62 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Yakka Dee! is a show that encourages children to talk. Each episode focuses on one word.
Publisher
Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2024.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
Description
In 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface and into the history books as the first of only twelve men to walk on the Moon. But in 1961 when Kennedy pledged to put a man on the Moon, NASA had barely put a man into orbit. They had less than 10 years to train a team of astronauts to overcome the unknown challenges of a mission to the Moon.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (5 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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From Peru, where the mineral is extracted, all the way to France, where the metal is refined, lead pollutes the earth, the rivers, food supplies, and local people. Despite being banned in numerous products including fuel, paints and the manufacture of pipes, lead is still often used in buildings, weapon development, jewellery and even in batteries. At Évin-Malmaison, France, lead from refineries has contaminated the earth underneath various schools,...
15) Atomic Hope
Publisher
Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Follows a tiny global movement of unpopular pro-nuclear activists, who strongly believe we need nuclear power in order to decarbonize our energy systems, before catastrophic climate change occurs. Intimately filmed over a ten year period, these advocates for nuclear energy come from all over the world; from Japan to Switzerland, America to Australia. But these individual activists face clashes and opposition at every juncture.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (5 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Many factories around the world use perfluorinated chemicals to make everyday products. Due to their chemical stability, these compounds are "forever chemicals" They do not break down. Even worse, they can build up inside the human body and cause health problems, including cancer, and compromise the immune system. Companies have routinely dismissed campaigners who insist that cancer cases have risen close tofactories which use perfluorinated chemicals....
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
Description
Extreme drought conditions are increasingly threatening livelihoods, and no corner of the globe seems to be immune from its devastating consequences.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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The investigation begins in Iraq, in the oil fields which extend from Nahr Umar to Halfaya. Black gold is a sensitive subject, a notorious source of conflict throughout Iraq's recent history. This region is as rich as it is dangerous. We meet local people who are convinced that pollution from flares at the oil refineries is responsible for a rise in illness, including breathing difficulties and childhood cancer. The site is vital for Iraq. It supplies...
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"A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down. Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing to do anything to get the shot. It was a time when the Internet was still the Wild West, and when slut-shaming, fat-shaming, and revenge porn were all considered...
20) Pangu's shadow
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English
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When Ver and Aryl, rival apprentices at the biology lab in the Pangu Star System, become the prime suspects in their teacher's murder, they reluctantly team up to find the real culprit, running up against system-wide inequalities and conspiracies along the way.
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