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The last animal / by Ausubel, Ramona,author.;
"A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty Jane is a serious scientist on the cutting-edge team of a bold project looking to "de-extinct" the wooly mammoth. She's privileged to have been sent to Siberia to hunt for ancient DNA, but there's a catch: Jane's two "tagalong" teen daughters are there with her in the Arctic, and they're bored enough to cause trouble. Brilliant, fiery, sharp-tongued Eve is fifteen and willing to talk back to the male scientists in a way her mother is not. And sweet, thirteen-year-old Vera, who seems to absorb all the emotional burdens of her small family, just wants to be home in Berkeley, baking cakes and watching bad tv. When Eve and Vera stumble upon a 4,000-year-old baby mammoth that has been perfectly preserved, their discovery sets off a chain of events that pit Jane against her colleagues, and soon her status at the lab is tenuous at best. So what does a female scientist do when she's a passionate devotee of her field but her gender and life history hold her back? She goes rogue. As Jane and her daughters ping-pong from the slopes of Siberia to a university in California, from the shores of Iceland to an exotic animal farm in Italy, The Last Animal takes readers on an expansive, big-hearted journey that explores the possibility and peril of the human imagination on a changing planet, what it's like to be a woman and a mother in a field dominated by men, and how a wondrous discovery can best be enjoyed with family. Even teenagers"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Mothers and daughters; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Single mothers; Women scientists; Woolly mammoth;
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The dolphin house / by Schulman, Audrey,1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Based on the true story of the 1965 "dolphin house" experiment, this spellbinding novel captures the tenor of the social experiments of the 1960's in award-winning author Audrey Schulman's tightly paced and evocative style. It is 1965, and Cora, a young, hearing impaired woman, buys a one-way ticket to the island of St. Thomas, where she discovers four dolphins held in captivity as part of an experiment led by the obsessive Dr. Blum. Drawn by a strong connection to the dolphins, Cora falls in with the scientists and discovers her need to protect the animals. Recognizing Cora's knack for communication, Blum uses her for what will turn into one of the most fascinating experiments in modern science: an attempt to teach the dolphins human language by creating a home in which she and a dolphin can live together. As the experiment progresses, Cora forges a remarkable bond with the creatures, until her hard-won knowledge clashes with the male-dominated world of science. As a terrible scandal threatens to engulf the experiment, Cora's fight to save the dolphins becomes a battle to save herself.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Animals; Deaf; Dolphins; Human-animal communication; Nineteen sixties; Science; Women;
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The shape of water [videorecording] / by Hawkins, Sally,1976-actor.; Shannon, Michael,1974-actor.; Spencer, Octavia,actor.; Toro, Guillermo del,1964-actor.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc,film distributor.;
Special features: A fairy tale for troubled times; theatrical trailers.Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon.An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS, 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Action and adventure films.; Romance films.; Fantasy films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Laboratories; Science; Captive marine animals; Security classification (Government documents); Human-animal relationships;
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Frankenweenie [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Abbate, Allison.; August, John.; Burton, Tim,1958-; Elfman, Danny.; Landau, Martin,1928-; O'Hara, Catherine.; Ryder, Winona,1971-; Shaffer, Atticus,1998-; Short, Martin,1950-; Tahan, Charlie.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm); Walt Disney Pictures.;
Director of photography, Peter Sorg ; editors, Chris Lebenzon, Mark Solomon ; music by Danny Elfman.Voices by Winona Ryder, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Landau, Charlie Tahan, Atticus Shaffer.Young Victor conducts a science experiment that will bring his dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous consequences.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blue Ray; 5.1 Dolby Digital; DVS 2.0 Dolby Digital ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Animated films.; Children's films.; Comedy films.; Dogs; Feature films.; Human-animal relationships; Science; Video recordings for children.;
© c2013., Buena Vista Home Entertainment,
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The shape of water [videorecording] / by Hawkins, Sally,1976-actor.; Shannon, Michael,1974-actor.; Spencer, Octavia,actor.; Toro, Guillermo del,1964-actor.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc,film distributor.;
Special features: A fairy tale for troubled times; theatrical trailers.Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon.An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Blu-ray disc, AVC @ 26 MBPS (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Feature films.; Action and adventure films.; Romance films.; Fantasy films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Laboratories; Science; Captive marine animals; Security classification (Government documents); Human-animal relationships;
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The inventor [videorecording] / by Capobianco, Jim,film director,film producer,screenwriter.; Cotillard, Marion,1975-voice actor.; Fry, Stephen,1957-voice actor.; Granjon, Pierre-Luc,film director.; Metz, Martin(Film producer),film producer.; Politowski, Adrian,1978-film producer.; Ridley, Daisy,1992-voice actor.; Rippberger, Robert,1988-film producer.; Breaking Glass Pictures (Firm),publisher.;
Voices: Stephen Fry, Daisy Ridley, Marion Cotillard, Matt Berry, Natalie Palamides."The insatiably curious and headstrong Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French court, where he can experiment freely, inventing flying contraptions, incredible machines, and study the human body. There, joined in his adventure by the audacious princess Marguerite, Leonardo will uncover the answer to the ultimate question--What is the meaning of it all?"--MPAA rating: PG.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Children's films.; Animated films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Stop-motion animation films.; Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519; Inventions; Princesses;
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Koko [videorecording] : the gorilla who talks / by Goritsas, Demetri,narrator.; Taylor, Jonathan,film director.; British Broadcasting Corporation,production company.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),production company,publisher.;
Demetri Goritsas.In 1971, graduate student Penny Patterson began teaching sign language to a gorilla named Koko. What started out as a scientific experiment evolved into an intimate friendship, which for almost half a century has challenged the way we think about animals and changed the course of many lives. It is a unique window into this incredible relationship.E.DVD; widescreen (16x9) presentation; Region 1; Stereo.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Wildlife television programs.; Koko (Gorilla), 1971-; Patterson, Francine.; Friendship.; Gorilla.; Human-animal relationships.;
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The memory of animals : a novel / by Fuller, Claire,author.;
"In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, death. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted twenty-seven-year-old marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial in London-perhaps humanity's last hope for a cure. Though isolated from the chaos outside, she and the other volunteers-Rachel, Leon, Yahiko, and Piper-cannot hide from the mistakes that led them there. As London descends into chaos outside the hospital windows, Neffy befriends Leon, who before the pandemic had been working on a controversial technology that allows users to revisit their memories. She withdraws into projections of her past-a childhood bisected by divorce, a recent love affair, her obsessive research with octopuses and the one mistake that ended her career. The lines between past, present, and future begin to blur, and Neffy is left with defining questions: Who can she trust? Why can't she forgive herself? How should she live, if she survives? Claire Fuller's The Memory of Animals is an ambitious, deeply imagined work of survival and suspense, grief and hope, consequences and connectedness that asks what truly defines us-and the lengths we will go to rescue ourselves and those we love"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Epidemics; Human experimentation in medicine; Secrecy; Social isolation;
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Chilean Films in Exile - Shorts by Juan Forch. by Forch, Juan,film director.; Herrmann, Jörg,film director.; Barke, Lothar,film director.; Börner, Michael,film director.; Hofmann, Rolf,film director.; DEFA Film Library (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1975.The Chilean director and poet Juan Forch (1948-) immigrated via Mexico to East Germany after the military coup in 1973. He joined the DEFA Studio for Animation Films in Dresden and learned the craft of animation. Between 1975 and 1978, he made several animation and documentary films drawing on his Chilean background and his political experiences in exile. The photo collages Chile Lives (1976) and Nobody Can Stop the Revolution (1976), the latter in collaboration with media artist Lutz Dammbeck, proclaim the hope of a victory of the progressive forces over the Pinochet dictatorship. The collage Chile (1975) by Forch and Jörg Herrmann reveals the USA as the backer of the military coup on September 11, 1973. The trick collage Hitlerpinochet (1975) by Forch and Jörg Herrmann draws similarities between the political slogans of Adolf Hitler and Augusto Pinochet. In 1976, Forch filmed Chilean students in Dresden drawing a mural in honor of former President Salvador Allende. The cut-out animation film Neutron Peace? (1977) offers a warning against a nuclear war emanating from the USA. Forch creates a visually and colorfully powerful epic about the life of the indigenous Mapuche in the cut-out film Lautaro (1977), his most comprehensive work at the Dresden studio. Finally, the animation film Rosaura (1978) by Lothar Barke atmospherically translates a poem by Juan Forch into images.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Experimental films.; Arts.; Short films.; Motion pictures.;
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Hotel Transylvania. [videorecording] / by Drymon, Derek,film director.; Gomez, Selena,1992-voice actor.; Hahn, Kathryn,1974-voice actor.; Kluska, Jennifer,film director.; Randazzo, Nunzio,screenwriter.; Samberg, Andy,1978-voice actor.; Tartakovsky, Genndy,1970-screenwriter.; Vernon, Amos,screenwriter.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kathryn Hahn, Jim Gaffigan, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, Keegan-Michael Key.After one experiment, Johnny turns into a monster and everyone else becomes human. Now it has to be seen whether they will be able to reverse this experiment.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.MPAA rating: PG; for some action and rude humor including cartoon nudity.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Children's films.; Comedy films.; Animated films.; Feature films.; Families; Fathers and daughters; Monsters; Vacations; Vampires;
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