Brooks, Michael

Summary: Explores thirteen of the most hotly debated topics in modern-day science and analyzes how issues from cold fusion to dark matter are changing the way scientists work and how they will shape and define science in the twenty-first century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008

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Brooks, Michael

Summary: "For readers of Steven Strogatz's Infinite Powers and The Joy of x comes this illuminating exploration of the ways in which math-and the people who have mastered its inherent power through the ages-has shaped our world. In this captivating, sweeping history, Michael Brooks makes clear that mathematics was one of the foundational innovations that catapulted humanity from a nomadic existence to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022

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Summary: A spoof of every western film cliche in which a black man is appointed sheriff of a frontier town.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Blazing 2004

Summary: A fierce and funny series that follows Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) when a crime she committed in her past sends her to an all-women's prison with an unforgettable and irreverent group of fellow inmates.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Balko, Radley

Summary: Relates the stories of two innocent men who were wrongly accused and convicted of crimes due largely to the legally condoned failures perpetrated by invalid forensic science and institutional racism. --Publisher. "A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Haley, Alex.

Summary: Alex Haley traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. He follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction to America and continued throughout the generations that followed.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America/Sound library 2007

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Summary: When it comes to her three free-spirited daughters, Daphne is just your normal over-protective, overbearing, over-the-top mother. Worried that her youngest daughter, Millie, will end up alone, Daphne meddles in her daughter's love life until she ends up doing all wrong things for all the right reasons - and all in the name of motherly love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007

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Summary: When two fathers of an engaged couple meet for the first time, they know they are very different. One is a podiatrist, happy with his quiet life. The other is a CIA operative, who lives life on the edge, and when circumstances get out-of-hand, involves the other in an arms-smuggling sting.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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Summary: George is a man whose struggle to find food and a place to sleep in New York City is beautifully captured with remarkable realism and heartrending compassion. Shuffled into the unforgiving bureaucracy of a men's shelter, George seems destined to wind up as just another lost soul swallowed up by the system, until he meets a gregarious, down-and-out ex-jazzman who inspires George to reconnect...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Brook, Michael.

Contents: Hybrid -- Distant village -- Mimosa -- Pond life -- Ocean motion -- Midday -- Earth floor -- Vacant.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Editions EG 1985

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Brook, Michael

Contents: Shona bridge. -- Breakdown. -- Red shift. -- Skip wave. -- Slipstream. -- Andean. -- Slow breakdown. -- Ultramarine. -- Urbana. -- Lakbossa. -- Ten. -- Hawaii.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 4AD 1992

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Contents: Canta pe' me / Ernesto de Curtis (3:26) -- Bring him home / Claude-Michel Schönberg (3:36) -- Che non finisca mai / Chris Broom (3:35) -- E lucevan le stelle / Giaccomo Puccini (3:22) -- Dolce vento / Chris Broom (2:21) -- Un giorno per noi / Nina Rota (4:19) -- Che gelida manina / Giaccomo Puccini (5:02) -- La nostra patria / Chris Broom (3:04) -- Hallelujah / Leonard Cohen (3:57) -- Ave Maria...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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