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Fluke : chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters / by Klaas, Brian P.(Brian Paul),1986-author.;
In the perspective-altering tradition of Malcolm Gladwell's 'The Tipping Point' and Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 'The Black Swan', 'Fluke' is a provocative challenge to how we think our world works-and why small, chance events can divert our lives and change everything. Drawing on social science, chaos theory, history, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Brian Klaas provides a brilliantly fresh look at why things happen-all while providing mind-bending lessons on how we can live smarter, be happier, and lead more fulfilling lives.
Subjects: Chance; Chaotic behavior in systems.; Conduct of life.; Forecasting.; Forecasting;
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Commanding hope : the power we have to renew a world in peril / by Homer-Dixon, Thomas F.,author.;
"Calling on history, cutting-edge research, complexity science and even Lord of the Rings, Homer-Dixon lays out the tools we can command to rescue a world on the brink. For three decades, the renowned author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, and The Ingenuity Gap: Can We Solve the Problems of the Future?, has examined the threats to our future security--predicting a deteriorating global environment, extreme economic stresses, mass migrations, social instability and wide political violence if humankind continued on its current course. He was called The Doom Meister, but we now see how prescient he was. Today just about everything we've known and relied on (our natural environment, economy, societies, cultures and institutions) is changing dramatically--too often for the worse. Without radical new approaches, our planet will become unrecognizable as well as poorer, more violent, more authoritarian. In his fascinating long-awaited new book (dedicated to his young children), he calls on his extraordinary knowledge of complexity science, of how societies work and can evolve, and of our capacity to handle threats, to show that we can shift human civilization onto a decisively new path if we mobilize our minds, spirits, imaginations and collective values. Commanding Hope marshals a fascinating, accessible argument for reinvigorating our cognitive strengths and belief systems to affect urgent systemic change, strengthen our economies and cultures, and renew our hope in a positive future for everyone on Earth."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Creative ability.; Environmental responsibility.; Social change.;
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Mars up close : inside the Curiosity mission / by Kaufman, Marc,author.; Musk, Elon.; National Geographic Society (U.S.);
Includes bibliographical references and index.The landing -- On Bradbury Rise -- Getting started -- The river -- Mars looks different -- In search of organics -- A habitable place? -- The anomaly -- Stories in stone -- Driving Curiosity -- The promised land -- Fourth planet astrobiology -- Humans to Mars -- Reflections."National Geographic and science journalist Marc Kaufman combine inside stories, fascinating facts, and eye-popping pictures, some never before seen, of the red planet and NASA's groundbreaking Curiosity mission. Renowned author Kaufman spent two years embedded with the engineers and scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, cheering on the rover's spine-tingling landing, learning the backstory of anticipated findings, and witnessing the inescapable frustrations that come from operating a $2.5-billion multitasking robot on a planet 35 million miles from Earth. With images never published before, and computer-enhanced with colors that make you want to spend your next vacation on Mars, this is the only book that explains everything, detail by detail and moment by moment, about the most ambitious space expedition the human race has ever undertaken."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Curiosity (Spacecraft);
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Tripping on utopia : Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the troubled birth of psychedelic science / by Breen, Benjamin,1985-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician John C. Lilly infamously dosed dolphins (and himself) with LSD in a NASA-funded effort to teach dolphins to talk. A tripping Cary Grant mumbled into a Dictaphone about Hegel as astronaut John Glenn returned to Earth. At the center of this revolution were the pioneering anthropologists-and star-crossed lovers-Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster, Mead and Bateson made it their life's mission to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work, whose intentions were less than pure. Mead and Bateson's partnership unlocks an untold chapter in the history of the twentieth century, linking drug researchers with CIA agents, outsider sexologists, and the founders of the Information Age. As we follow Mead and Bateson's fractured love affair from the malarial jungles of New Guinea to the temples of Bali, from the espionage of WWII to the scientific revolutions of the Cold War, a new origin story for psychedelic science emerges"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980.; Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.; Anthropology; Cold War.; Hallucinogenic drugs;
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Beyond skyline [videorecording] / by Grillo, Frank,1963-actor.; Novakovic, Bojana,1981-actor.; O'Donnell, Liam,1982-film director,screenwriter.; Strause, Greg,1975-film producer.; Uwais, Iko,1983-actor.; Weston, Jonny,actor.; Vertical Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Frank Grillo, Bojana Novakovic, Iko Uwais, Jonny Weston.When the population of Los Angeles is vacuumed off the face of the Earth, Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien ship to rescue his estranged son. But after crashing the ship in Southeast Asia, he must forge an alliance with a band of survivors to discover the key to saving his son and taking back the planet once and for all.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA Rating: R; for sequences of bloody sci-fi violence, and language throughout.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Aliens; Fathers and sons; Rescues; Space vehicles;
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Meteor. by Neame, Ronald,film director.; Fonda, Henry,actor.; Malden, Karl,actor.; Landau, Martin,actor.; Wood, Natalie,actor.; Connery, Sean,actor.; Howard, Trevor,actor.; MGM (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Henry Fonda, Karl Malden, Martin Landau, Natalie Wood, Sean Connery, Trevor HowardOriginally produced by MGM in 1979.Outer space can hardly contain all the stars that round out the extraordinary cast in this thriller: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard and Henry Fonda. Dr. Paul Bradley (Connery) is summoned to Washington by NASA chief Harold Sherwood (Malden) who informs him that a huge meteor will smash into earth in six days. The only chance to destroy the meteor is to work with the Soviets, revealing to them top nuclear secrets. But the clock is ticking…Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; War films.; Science fiction.; Motion Pictures.; Action and adventure films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.).;
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Planet hockey : first star of the game / by Torres, J.,1969-; Levins, Tim.;
Isaac may be the best in his hockey video game, but he's terrible on actual ice. Unfortunately, the scouts from Planet Galaxia don<U+2019>t know this and warp him away to be the new superstar of their terrible team. Luckily, Isaac's friend Lily tags along--she just might be the best goalie this side of the Milky Way! But interstellar hockey isn<U+2019>t like hockey on Earth. Opposing players are electrified, shaped like trees, or built like actual boulders. And even if Isaac is able to turn the octopus-like Pods into shape, Emperor Mad Maroon, the ruler of Galaxia, might not release the Earthlings. Can Isaac score a win in the Galaxia Championship Tournament--and get back to home ice?LSC
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Science fiction comic books, strips, etc.; Hockey players; Extraterrestrial beings; Hockey teams; Hockey;
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Ender's game [videorecording] / by Breslin, Abigail,1996-; Butterfield, Asa,1997-; Card, Orson Scott.Ender's game.Videorecording.; Davis, Viola,1965-; Ford, Harrison,1942-; Hood, Gavin,film director.; Kingsley, Ben,1943-; Partha, Suraj.; Steinfeld, Hailee,actor.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Odd Lot Entertainment (Firm);
Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Abigail Breslin, Viola Davis, Moises Arias, Aramis Knight, Suraj Partha.A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the future of Earth and save the human race.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen presentation; 5.1 Dolby digital.
Subjects: Wiggin, Ender (Fictitious character); Action and adventure films.; Brothers and sisters; Extraterrestrial beings; Feature films.; Genetic engineering; Gifted children; Human-alien encounters; Military education; Science fiction films.; War games;
© c2014., Odd Lot Entertainment ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
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Twelve trees : the deep roots of our future / by Lewis, Daniel,1959-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees that represent the challenges facing our planet, and the ways that scientists are working urgently to save our forests and our future.The world today is undergoing the most rapid environmental transformation in human history--from climate change to deforestation. Scientists, ethnobotanists, indigenous peoples, and collectives of all kinds are closely studying trees and their biology to understand how and why trees function individually and collectively in the ways they do. In Twelve Trees, Daniel Lewis, curator and historian at one of the world's most renowned research libraries, travels the world to learn about these trees in their habitats. Lewis takes us on a sweeping journey to plant breeding labs, botanical gardens, research facilities, deep inside museum collections, to the tops of tall trees, underwater, and around the Earth, journeying into the deserts of the American west and the deep jungles of Peru, to offer a globe-spanning perspective on the crucial impact trees have on our entire planet. When a once-common tree goes extinct in the wild but survives in a botanical garden, what happens next? How can scientists reconstruct lost genomes and habitats? How does a tree store thousands of gallons of water, or offer up perfectly preserved insects from millions of years ago, or root itself in muddy swamps and remain standing? How does a 5,000-year-old tree manage to live, and what can we learn from it? And how can science account for the survival of one species at the expense of others? To study the science of trees is to study not just the present, but the story of the world, its past, and its future."--
Subjects: Trees; Trees;
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A beautifully foolish endeavor : a novel / by Green, Hank,author.;
"The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While they were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction without ever lifting a finger. Well, that's not exactly true. Part of their maelstrom was the sudden viral fame and untimely death of April May: a young woman who stumbled into Carl's path, giving them their name, becoming their advocate, and putting herself in the middle of an avalanche of conspiracy theories. Months later, the world is as confused as ever. Andy has picked up April's mantle of fame, speaking at conferences and online about the world post-Carl; Maya, ravaged by grief, begins to follow a string of mysteries that she is convinced will lead her to April; and Miranda infiltrates a new scientific operation ... one that might have repercussions beyond anyone's comprehension. As they each get further down their own paths, a series of clues arrive-mysterious books that seem to predict the future and control the actions of their readers; unexplained internet outages; and more-which seem to suggest April may be very much alive. In the midst of the gang's possible reunion is a growing force, something that wants to capture our consciousness and even control our reality. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor is the bold and brilliant follow-up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. It's a fast-paced adventure that is also a biting social commentary, asking hard, urgent questions. How will we live online? What powers over our lives are we giving away for free? Who has the right to change the world forever? And how do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world?"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Internet personalities; Celebrities; Fame; Social media;
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