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Cold burn / by Landau, A. J.,author.;
"Agent Michael Walker returns when multiple deaths at Glacier Bay National Park are just the first steps in a potential global disaster. National Park Service investigator Michael Walker is battling smugglers stealing priceless artifacts when he's dispatched to Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, where, in the first stage of a potential global disaster, a team of scientists has gone missing. Meanwhile, in Florida's Everglades National Park, FBI special investigator Gina Delgado traces the murder of an environmental science intern back to another U.S. Geological Survey team's ongoing experiments that are decimating the fragile ecosystem. That is before she's dispatched to the scene of a sunken U.S. nuclear submarine, the entire crew of which has inexplicably been killed. The connection between these disparate investigations lies in a deadly prehistoric organism, frozen for thousands of years in the ice until global warming brings it back to life in what could mean the death of all life on Earth. An organism that a rogue billionaire sees as the ultimate fuel source and a Russian strongman views as the ultimate weapon that can shift the global balance of power forever. Against that backdrop, Walker and Delgado find themselves desperately doing battle across multiple fronts against an ancient, unstoppable enemy"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; United States. National Park Service; Missing persons; Murder; Organisms;
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Arrival [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Adams, Amy; Renner, Jeremy; Stuhlbarg, Michael; Whitaker, Forest; O'Brien, Mark;
Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Michael Stuhlbarg, Forest Whitaker, Mark O'Brien.Director, Denis Villeneuve.Blu-ray.CHVRS rating: PG.When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team, including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
Subjects: Drama.; Drama.; Award Winners.; Sci-Fi.;
© 2017., Paramount,
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Inferno [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Hanks, Tom; Jones, Felicity; Khan, Irrfan; Foster, Ben; Sy, Omar;
Director, Ron Howard.Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Ben Foster, Omar Sy.When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world's population.CHVRS rating: 14A.Blu-ray.
Subjects: Action.; Action / Adventure.; Crime.;
© 2017., Columbia Pictures,
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Arrival [videorecording] / by Adams, Amy,actor.; Renner, Jeremy,actor.; Stuhlbarg, Michael,actor.; Whitaker, Forest,actor.; O'Brien, Mark,1984-actor.; Villeneuve, Denis,film director.; Paramount Pictures,distributor.;
Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Michael Stuhlbarg, Forest Whitaker, Mark O'Brien.When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team, including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Feature films.; Unidentified flying objects; Human-alien encounters; Extraterrestrial beings;
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Disturbing the bones / by Davis, Andrew,1946-author.; Biggers, Jeff,1963-author.;
"A propulsive debut political thriller set in the aftermath of a global nuclear weapons crisis -- from the acclaimed filmmaker of The Fugitive and an award-winning journalist. A plot to disrupt a global peace summit in Chicago collides with a civil rights case breakthrough at a mysterious archaeological site "Andrew Davis is a cinematic master, and Jeff Biggers is a brilliant scribe of wild places. Together, they have created a thriller that will keep you up all night." --Luis Urrea, NY Times bestselling author of Good Night, Irene. Chicago detective Randall Jenkins has not been back home to the historic Civil Rights hotspot of Cairo, Illinois since the disappearance of his mother, a well-known journalist, several decades ago. That all changes the day Dr. Molly Moore, an ambitious young archaeologist in the national spotlight for her groundbreaking high-tech discoveries, uncovers a set of strange bones at a huge 12,000-year-old site at a highway construction project. With retired military general and contractor William Alexander breathing down her neck to cover up the dig, Molly and Randall soon find themselves in the middle of a wild military conspiracy. The detective and archaeologist's entwined family mysteries suddenly thrust them into the central position as the only people who can ensure the safety of the ongoing Chicago global peace summit. They must take on the rogue general who views any disarmament agreement as a clear and present danger to the United States. The fate of global peace and the lives of Molly and Randall hang in the balance"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Archaeologists; Conspiracies; Detectives; Missing persons; Women archaeologists;
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The raging 2020s : companies, countries, people--and the fight for our future / by Ross, Alec,1971-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."For 150 years, there has been a contract. Companies hold the power to shape our daily lives. The state holds the power to make them fall in line. And the people hold the power to choose their leaders. But now, this balance has shaken loose. As the market consolidates, the lines between Walmart and the Halls of Congress have become razor-thin. Private companies have begun to behave like nations, and with the government bogged down in bureaucratic negotiations and partisan wars, people look to nimble, powerful firms to solve societal problems-and to be our moral standard-bearers. As Walter Isaacson said about Ross's first book, "The future is already hitting us, and Ross shows how it can be exciting rather than frightening." Through interviews with the world's most influential thinkers and stories of corporate activism and malfeasance, government failure and renewal, and innovative economic and political models, Alec Ross proposes a new social contract-one that resets the equilibrium between corporations, the governing, and the governed"--
Subjects: Corporate power; Business and politics; Corporations;
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Inferno [videorecording] / by Howard, Ron,1954-film director.; Foster, Ben,1980-actor.; Hanks, Tom,actor.; Jones, Felicity,actor.; Khan, Irrfan,1962-actor.; Sy, Omar,1978-actor.; Brown, Dan,1964-Inferno.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Ben Foster, Omar Sy.When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world's population.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Langdon, Robert (Fictitious character); Amnesiacs; Viruses; Billionaires;
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Gasland. [videorecording] / by Fox, Josh,1972-; Cinedigm (Firm); Docurama (Firm); HBO Documentary films.; International WOW Company.;
In this explosive follow-up to his Oscar-nominated film Gasland, filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark dark humor to take a deeper, broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now occurring on a global level (in 32 countries worldwide).E.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Environmental films.; Gas industry; Hydraulic fracturing; Natural gas reserves; Oil and gas leases; Political films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2014., Docurama Films : Distributed by Cinedigm Entertainment,
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All we want : building the life we cannot buy / by Harris, Michael,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.We face a reckoning - the forces of consumerism are being powerfully confronted by the effects of a global pandemic and ecological crisis. In this book, award-winning author Michael Harris allows us to re-define "the good life" and envision new, more sustainable ways to measure our days. Harris lives in Vancouver, BC.
Subjects: Consumption (Economics); Consumption (Economics); Consumption (Economics);
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How to be a climate optimist : blueprints for a better world / by Turner, Chris,1973-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the National Business Book Award winner and GG finalist, a very different book about facing the climate crisis, and what awaits us on the other side. Chris Turner has reported from the places where the sustainable future first emerged--from green islands in Denmark and green office parks in southern India, to solar panel factories in California and idealistic intentional communities from Scotland to New Mexico. Here, he condenses the first quarter century of the global energy transition into bite-sized chunks of optimistic reflection and reportage, telling a story of a planet in peril and a global effort already beginning to save it. This is a book that moves past the despair and futile anger over ecological collapse and harnesses that passion toward the project of building a twenty-first century quality of life that surpasses the twentieth-century version in every way. How to Be a Climate Optimist overflows with optimism in a moment of great panic, upheaval and uncertainty over a world on fire."--
Subjects: Climate change mitigation.; Sustainability.; Sustainable living.;
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