Summary: Host Neil deGrasse Tyson returns, bringing together a rare mix of potentially clashing personalities - celebrities, comedians and the worlds leading scientific experts - to explore a variety of cosmic and science topics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STASummary: Tyson looks at the most confounding mysteries of Earth, space, and what it means to be human. He attempts to answer all of your most pressing questions, from how the brain works to the physics of comic book superheroes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STATyson, Neil deGrasse
Summary: A companion to the celebrated scientist's popular podcast and National Geographic Channel series combines the subjects of his favorite talks with comprehensive facts, sidebars, and imagery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 520 TYSSummary: Tyson looks at the most confounding mysteries of Earth, space, and what it means to be human. He attempts to answer all of your most pressing questions, from how the brain works to the physics of comic book superheroes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 523.1 TYSTyson, Neil deGrasse
Summary: This book brings together the best of StarTalk, Tyson's popular podcast and television show devoted to solving the most confounding mysteries of Earth, space, and what it means to be human.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 520 TYSBarrett, Andrea.
Summary: During the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation--from experiments with cave-dwelling fish without eyes to scientifically bred crops to motorized bicycles and the flight of an early aeroplane. In 1920, a popular science writer and young widow tries, immediately after the bloodbath of the First World War, to explain the new theory...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARHaddix, Margaret Peterson.
Summary: In a society that allows families to have only two children, a group of third-borns tries to save itself and others like them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HADFaulks, Sebastian
Summary: When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman's child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn Institute, a billionaire entrepreneur plans to stretch the boundaries of ethics as never before. Through a series of IVF treatments, which they hope to keep secret, they propose an experiment that will upend the human race as we know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hutchinson Heinemann 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAUReeve, Elle
Summary: "This tour de force of investigative journalism--in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We're Polarized--depicts the United States of America as a country at a crossroads with the battle between the right and left spilling out from the darkest corners of the internet into the real world with often tragic consequences. Award-winning journalist and CNN correspondent Elle Reeve was not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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Summary: "As the cofounder of NewsGuard, a company that tracks online misinformation, Steven Brill has observed the rise of fake news from a front-row seat. In The Death of Truth, with startling, often terrifying clarity, he explains how we got here—and how we can get back to a world where truth matters.None of this—conspiracy theories embraced, expertise ridiculed, empirical evidence ignored—has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 BRIBroadway, Anna.
Summary: "How can the church do better for its millions of singles? Everyone spends at least part of life single--and research shows that singles are leaving the church faster than other groups. To better understand singleness in the church, journalist Anna Broadway traveled around the world to interview Christians from nearly fifty countries and all three major church traditions. From cooking to aging,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NavPress 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.84 BROFoster, Kim
Summary: "James Beard Award-winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America. Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table--eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at the table? In The Meth Lunches, James Beard award-winning writer Kim Foster peers behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2023