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The day the earth stood still [videorecording] / by Bates, Harry,1900-1981.Farewell to the master.Videorecording.; Bavier, Frances,1905-1989.; Blaustein, Julian.; Gray, Billy,1938-; Herrman, Bernard,1911-1975.; Jaffe, Sam,1893-1984.; Marlowe, Hugh,1911-1982.; Martin, Lock.; Neal, Patricia,1926-; North, Edmund H.,1911-1990.; Rennie, Michael.; Serson, Fred,1890-1962.; Tover, Leo,1902-1964.; Wise, Robert,1914-2005.; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier, Lock Martin.A flying saucer orbits the 1950s Earth. It lands in Washington, DC, on the Mall. The lone occupant steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. Gort, a large and very powerful robot appears to save him and is able to melt tanks with the slightest bit of his power. The wounded alien orders Gort to stop his rampage and is taken to a hospital from which he escapes in order to learn more about this planet, even moving in as a boarder with an Earth family. When they begin to suspect him, he reveals himself, along with the news that Gort is a member of a race of super-robot enforcers invented to keep the peace of the galaxy that will destroy the Earth if provoked.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; full screen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Bates, Harry, 1900-1981.; Androids; Feature films.; Human-alien encounters; Science fiction films.; Unidentified flying objects; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2008., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,
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Essential rammed earth construction : the complete step-by-step guide / by Krahn, Tim,1971-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Essential Rammed Earth Construction covers design, building science, tools, and step-by-step building methods for building with rammed earth - and, gravel, and clay or lime/cement binder packed into forms - in any climate with an emphasis on cold climates."--
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Pisé; Earth construction;
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When the Earth was green : plants, animals, and evolution's greatest romance / by Black, Riley,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A gorgeously composed look at the longstanding relationship between prehistoric plants and life on Earth Fossils plants allow us to touch the lost worlds from billions of years of evolutionary backstory. Each petrified leaf and root show us that dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, and even humans would not exist without the evolutionary efforts of their leafy counterparts. It has been the constant growth of plants that have allowed so many of our favorite, fascinating prehistoric creatures to evolve, oxygenating the atmosphere, coaxing animals onto land, and forming the forests that shaped our ancestors' anatomy. It is impossible to understand our history without them. Or, our future. Using the same scientifically-informed narrative technique that readers loved in the award-winning The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, in When the Earth Was Green, Riley Black brings readers back in time to prehistoric seas, swamps, forests, and savannas where critical moments in plant evolution unfolded. Each chapter stars plants and animals alike, underscoring how the interactions between species have helped shape the world we call home. As the chapters move upwards in time, Black guides readers along the burgeoning trunk of the Tree of Life, stopping to appreciate branches of an evolutionary story that links the world we know with one we can only just perceive now through the silent stone, from ancient roots to the present"--
Subjects: Evolutionary paleoecology.; Paleobotany.; Plants; Plants, Fossil.;
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To the edges of the Earth : 1909, the race for the three poles, and the climax of the age of exploration / by Larson, Edward J.(Edward John),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955.; Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920.; Savoia, Luigi Amedeo di, duca degli Abruzzi, 1873-1933.; Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922.; British Antarctic Expedition (1907-1909); Mountaineering expeditions; Polar regions;
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We are eating the Earth : the race to fix our food system and save our climate / by Grunwald, Michael,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Humanity has cleared a land mass the size of Asia plus Europe to grow food, and our food system generates a third of our carbon emissions. By 2050, we're going to need a lot more calories to fill nearly 10 billion bellies, but we can't feed the world without frying it if we keep tearing down an acre of rainforest every six seconds. We are eating the earth, and the greatest challenge facing our species will be to slow our relentless expansion of farmland into nature. Even if we quit fossil fuels, we'll keep hurtling towards climate chaos if we don't solve our food and land problems. In this rollicking, shocking narrative, Grunwald shows how the world, after decades of ignoring the climate problem at the centre of our plates, has pivoted to making it worse, embracing solutions that sound sustainable but could make it even harder to grow more food with less land. But he also tells the stories of the dynamic scientists and entrepreneurs pursuing real solutions, from a jungle-tough miracle crop called pongamia to genetically-edited cattle embryos, from Impossible Whoppers to a non-polluting pesticide that uses the technology behind the COVID vaccines to constipate beetles to death. It's an often infuriating saga of lobbyists, politicians, and even the scientific establishment making terrible choices for humanity, but it's also a hopeful account of the people figuring out what needs to be done -- and trying to do it.
Subjects: Agricultural systems.; Climatic changes.; Food security.; Food supply; Human ecology.; Sustainable agriculture.;
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The Earth is all that lasts : Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the last stand of the Great Sioux Nation / by Gardner, Mark Lee,1960-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull paints both a triumphant and tragic portrait of these two fascinating and heroic leaders struggling to maintain the freedom of their people.
Subjects: Biographies.; Crazy Horse, approximately 1842-1877.; Sitting Bull, 1831-1890.; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.; Dakota; Hunkpapa; Lakota; Oglala;
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Batman. [graphic novel] / by Snyder, Scott,author.; Capullo, Greg,artist.; Glapion, Jonathan,artist.; Plascencia, Fco,colourist,artist.; Napolitano, Tom,letterer.;
"Twenty years in the future Bruce Wayne wakes up in Arkham Asylum. Young. Sane. And ... he's never been Batman. So begins this sprawling tale of the Dark Knight as he embarks on a quest through a devastated DC landscape featuring a massive cast of familiar faces from the DC Universe. As he tries to piece together the mystery of his past, he must unravel the cause of this terrible future and track down the unspeakable force that destroyed the world as he knew it."--Ages 17+.
Subjects: Superhero comics.; Graphic novels.; Batman (Fictitious character); Joker (Fictitious character); Superheroes; Supervillains; Psychotherapy patients; Psychiatric hospitals;
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Fantastic Four. [graphic novel] / by North, Ryan,1980-author.; Aburto, Jesus,colorist.; Caramagna, Joe,letterer.; Cummings, Steven,illustrator.; Faucher, Wayne,illustrator.; Fiorelli, Ivan,illustrator.; Gomez, Carlos,1985-illustrator.; Reber, Brian,colourist.;
When a cosmic incident from outer space threatens forty percent of the planet, the Fantastic Four will need teamwork, cleverness and an old vehicle dug out of storage to save the world!T+.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Superhero comics.; Fantastic Four (Fictitious characters); Extraterrestrial beings; Human-alien encounters; Superheroes;
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Earth's the right place for love : a novel / by Berg, Elizabeth,author.;
"This beautiful novel tells the love story of young Arthur Moses and Nola, and how a young man grew up to become the wise old man known as Arthur trulove. Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy,in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns that Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses--Arthur's older brother, Frank. Meanwhile, Frank is busy pursuing his own passion, and avoiding their father, a war veteran with a drinking problem and a penchant for starting fights. When a sudden tragedy rocks Arthur's world, Arthur is force to grow up, and to learn how to create a life that involves the kinds of relationships that are the most important to him"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Dysfunctional families; Families; Interpersonal relations;
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Earth's the right place for love [text (large print)] : a novel / by Berg, Elizabeth,author.;
"This beautiful novel tells the love story of young Arthur Moses and Nola, and how a young man grew up to become the wise old man known as Arthur trulove. Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy,in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns that Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses--Arthur's older brother, Frank. Meanwhile, Frank is busy pursuing his own passion, and avoiding their father, a war veteran with a drinking problem and a penchant for starting fights. When a sudden tragedy rocks Arthur's world, Arthur is force to grow up, and to learn how to create a life that involves the kinds of relationships that are the most important to him"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Dysfunctional families; Families; Interpersonal relations;
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