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Contents: Preface: revolution #3 -- Introduction: butterflies, zebras, and embryos -- pt. I: The making of animals. Animal architecture: modern forms, ancient designs -- Monsters, mutants, and master genes -- From E. coli to elephants -- Making babies: 25,000 genes, some assembly required -- The dark matter of the genome: operating instructions for the tool kit -- pt. II: Fossils, genes, and the making...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 571.85 CARCarroll, Sean B.
Summary: An award-wining biologist explores the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on Earth--from the epic journeys of pioneering naturalists to the breakthroughs making headlines today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 CARCarroll, Sean B.
Summary: Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that we live in a world driven by chance. A Series of Fortunate Events tells the story of the awesome power of chance and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 113.8 CARCarroll, Sean M.
Summary: Caltech physicist and author Sean Carroll offers listeners this profile of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the mysterious Higgs boson particle, the subatomic building block that imbues elementary particles with mass. Carroll chronicles how such a complex project got off the ground in the first place and explains why this discovery is so important, and what it means for the future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 539.721 CARCarroll, Sean B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.86 CARCarroll, Sean M.
Summary: "Caltech physicist and New York Times bestselling author Sean Carroll shows that there are multiple copies of you. And everyone else. Really. Something Deeply Hidden begins with the news that physics is in a crisis. Quantum mechanics underlies all of modern physics but major gaps in the theory have been ignored since 1927. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how contradictory,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.12 CARCarroll, Sean M.
Summary: Examines the effort to discover the Higgs boson particle by tracing the development and use of the Large Hadron Collider and how its findings are dramatically shaping scientific understandings while enabling world-changing innovations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 539.721 CARSummary: Travel back in time, from the Arctic Ocean to Pacific tide pools, with a pioneering group of scientists who make surprising discoveries that transform human understanding of nature and ecology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SERSummary: "Time is as mysterious as it is familiar ..." An exploration of the mysteries of why time works the way it does "addressed by physics, philosophy, biology, neuroscience, and cosmology"--Page 1
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 MYSSummary: There is more to the universe than meets the eye--a lot more. In recent years, scientists have discovered that 95 percent of the contents of the cosmos are invisible to our current methods of direct detection. Yet something is holding galaxies and galaxy clusters together, and something else is causing space to fly apart. Scientists call these invisible components dark matter and dark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 DARContents: Disc 1. Lectures: 1. The importance of the Higgs boson -- 2. Quantum field theory. -- 3. Atoms to particles -- 4. The power of symmetry -- 5. The Higgs field -- 6. Mass and energy Disc 2. Lectures: 7. Colliding particles -- 8. Particle accelerators and detectors -- 9. The large Hadron collider -- 10. Capturing the Higgs boson -- 11. Beyond the standard model of particle physics -- 12. Frontiers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) focuses on the sometimes complex and always amusing dynamics of a team forced to work together in high-stress situations. Special Agent Alden Parker, a quirky former FBI agent who solves his cases with calm professionalism and sharp, sarcastic charm, leads the NCIS team. From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, these special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The NCIS team is back in action with all 24 suspense-filled episodes of season 9. Special Agent Jethro Gibbs continues to lead the team at the Navel Criminal Investigative Service as they probe into intense military matters, including national security breaches, a secret society of superheroes, and brutal murders, one of which drops them in the heart of Afghanistan and another which leads them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NCISummary: The team's ongoing mission to keep America safe kicks off with a worldwide search for their own Director Vance. Escalating threats turn into personal missions as Bishop defies orders to reopen a cold case, a naval hospital endures an active shooter lockdown, and Gibbs is confronted by an ex-agent who issues a grave warning. At the end of the day, only one thing is certain: the team that fights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Who is the deadly terrorist known only as "Sahar," and where will they strike next? Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs and second-in-command Senior Special Agent Timothy McGee race against time to identify, locate and neutralize Sahar and save countless lives, including their own. NCIS takes on some of the most intense cases of their careers along the way, from murdered Marines and attacks at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: NCIS is more than just an action drama. With liberal doses of humor, it's a show that focuses on the sometimes complex and always amusing dynamics of a team forced to work together in high-stress situations. Following the cliffhanger Season 19 finale, with Special Agent Alden Parker still on the run with his ex-wife Vivian, the team investigates who from his past might have a personal vendetta...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Special Agent Gibbs and company are tested like never before with a flurry of high-stakes cases involving international espionage, al Qaeda plots, brutal serial killings and double agents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NCISummary: NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) is more than just an action drama. With liberal doses of humor, it's a show that focuses on the sometimes complex and always amusing dynamics of a team forced to work together in high-stress situations. NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, a former Marine gunnery sergeant whose skills as an investigator are unmatched, leads this troupe of colorful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The momentous season that changed NCIS forever. In Season 19, legendary Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs unexpectedly retires and is replaced by former FBI agent Alden Parker. Parker is instantly put to the test as theteam takes on a series of life-and-death cases. A bioterror attack exposes Jimmy and Kasie to a deadly toxin. McGee₂s mother-in-law is targeted by a killer. Vance₂s daughter is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022