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Empire of the ants [electronic resource]. by Sony Computer Entertainment.;
Game.Players will immerse themselves in the world of ants where they must ensure the prosperity of a colony through tactical and strategic battles in a microscopic world of immense proportions. You embody the 103,683rd ant, determined to lead the colony to new, more prosperous horizons. In Empire of the Ants, every decision matters, every move is strategic, and every conquest reflects your ability to master a world where the small are mighty! Strategy, exploration, conflicts, and even alliances with the local wildlife will be necessary to emerge victorious from the numerous challenges.ESRB Content Rating: E10, Everyone, 10 (Fantasy violence, mild language).Ultra HD Blu-ray disc compatible with Playstation 5 console ; HDTV 720p/1080i/1080p/4K/8K ; in game surround sound ; 1-3 player online multiplayer (paid subscription and broadband internet connection required) ; 41 GB storage required ; online play optional ; Vibration function supported ; PS5 Pro enhanced.
Subjects: Empire-building video games.; Role playing video games.; Video games.; Adventure video games.; Playstation 5 (Video game console); Video games.; Ants; Insects; Ant communities; Empire of the ants (Game);
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Batman, the brave and the bold. [videorecording] / by Cartoon Network (Television network); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Journey to the center of the Bat! -- The eyes of Despero! -- Return of the fearsome fangs! -- Deep cover for Batman! -- Game over for Owlman!Often outmatched in powers but never in wits, Batman and fellow DC Comics superheroes Green Arrow, Aquaman, Bronze Tiger, and the Atom take down villains of all shapes and sizes. The larger-than-life humanoid Despero and the microscopic toxin in Batman's bloodstream that could be deadly. Just when Batman thinks he has this universe under control, he discovers a parallel world where Batman is the villainous Owlman. It will take all his cunning and courage to defeat this evil counterpart, especially with Owlman travels to Gotham City and convinces our world that Batman has turned criminal.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, region 1, widescreen (matted, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo surround.
Subjects: Animated television programs.; Aquaman (Fictitious character); Batman (Fictitious character); Children's television programs.; Criminal behavior; Criminal investigation; Green Arrow (Fictitious character); Superhero television programs.; Video recordings for children.;
© c2010., Distributed by Warner Home Video,
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Garden wonders : a guidebook for little green thumbs / by Grindler, Sarah.;
"The newest book in the Little Explorers series shows young readers how to garden everything from flowers to veggies--and offers tips and tricks for keeping it all in bloom. Let's get our hands dirty! Whether you have a big backyard or pots on a balcony, you can grow just about anything if you have healthy soil, plenty of water, and bright sunlight. The newest book in the Little Explorers series takes young readers through every step to creating their own garden: from collecting nutrient-rich soil and choosing the right time of day to water your plants, to identifying helpful critters from unwanted pests. Featuring new vocabulary words like "germinate," "fertilizer," and "pollinator," and encouraging a microscopic look at nature, this is the perfect book for curious little gardeners. What will you grow first?"--
Subjects: Gardening;
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Spook : science tackles the afterlife / by Roach, Mary;
Includes bibliographical references.You again : a visit to the reincarnation nation -- The little man inside the sperm, or possibly the big toe : hunting the soul with microscopes and scalpels -- How to weigh a soul : what happens when a man (or a mouse, or a leech) dies on a scale -- The Vienna sausage affair : and other dubious highlights of the ongoing effort to see the soul -- Hard to swallow : the giddy, revolting heyday of ectoplasm -- The large claims of the medium : reaching out to the dead in a University of Arizona lab -- Soul in a dunce cap : the author enrolls in medium school -- Can you hear me now? : telecommunicating with the dead -- Inside the haunt box : can electromagnetic fields make you hallucinate? -- Listening to Casper : a psychoacoustics expert sets up camp in England's haunted spots -- Chaffin v. the dead guy in the overcoat : in which the law finds for a ghost, and the author calls in an expert witness -- Six feet over : a computer stands by on an operating room ceiling, awaiting near-death experiencers.
Subjects: Future life; Religion and science;
© 2005., W.W. Norton and Co.,
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Mosquito bite / by Siy, Alexandra; Kunkel, Dennis;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 32), Internet addresses and index.Black-and-white photographs show a children's game of hide-and-seek ending in a mosquito bite, while colour photomicrographs show the life story of Culex pipiens, the common house mosquito, as seen through an electron microscope.
Subjects: Culex pipiens; Mosquitoes; Photomicrography;
© c2005., Charlesbridge,
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How plants work : the science behind the amazing things plants do / by Chalker-Scott, Linda.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Under the microscope -- The underground railroad -- What's essential -- Transforming sunlight into sugar -- Why leaves can turn red anytime, anyplace -- How plants tell time -- Night shifts and other unexpected movements -- Garden care, not control -- Finding love in a sedentary world.LSC
Subjects: Plant physiology.; Gardening.;
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The Feather Detective : Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne. by Sweeney, Chris.;
'The Feather Detective' is the fascinating and remarkable true story of the worlds first forensic ornithologist - Roxie Laybourne, who broke down barriers for women, solved murders, and investigated deadly airplane crashes with nothing more than a microscope and a few fragments of feathers.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; NATURE / Animals / Birds;
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Billion dollar burger : inside big tech's race for the future of food / by Purdy, Chase,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The riveting story of the entrepreneurs and renegades fighting to bring lab-grown meat to the world. The trillion-dollar meat industry is one of our greatest environmental hazards; it pollutes more than all the world's fossil-fuel-powered cars. Global animal agriculture is responsible for deforestation, soil erosion, and more emissions than air travel, paper mills, and coal mining combined. It also, of course, depends on the slaughter of more than 60 billion animals per year, a number that is only increasing as the global appetite for meat swells. But a band of doctors, scientists, activists, and entrepreneurs have been racing to end animal agriculture as we know it, hoping to fulfill a dream of creating meat without ever having to kill an animal. In the laboratories of Silicon Valley companies, Dutch universities, and Israeli startups, visionaries are growing burgers and steaks from microscopic animal cells and inventing systems to do so at scale--allowing us to feed the world without slaughter and environmental devastation. Drawing from exclusive and unprecedented access to the main players, from polarizing activist-turned-tech CEO Josh Tetrick to lobbyists and regulators on both sides of the issue, Billion Dollar Burger follows the people fighting to upend our food system as they butt up against the entrenched interests fighting viciously to stop them. The stakes are monumentally high: cell-cultured meat is the best hope for sustainable food production, a key to fighting climate change, a gold mine for the companies that make it happen, and an existential threat for the farmers and meatpackers that make our meat today. Are we ready?"--
Subjects: Meat; Meat industry and trade; Meat substitutes.;
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The invisible siege : the rise of coronaviruses and the search for a cure / by Werb, Dan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An engrossing family history of coronaviruses and the modern-day scientific quest to conquer viral epidemics forever. The urgency of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic has fixed humanity's gaze on the present crisis. But the story of this pandemic extends far further back than many realize. In this engrossing narrative, epidemiologist Dan Werb traces the rising threat of the coronavirus family and the attempts by a small group of scientists who worked for decades to stop a looming viral pandemic. When virologist Ralph Baric began researching coronaviruses in the 1980s, the field was a scientific backwater-the few variants that infected humans caused little more than the common cold. But when a novel coronavirus sparked the 2003 SARS epidemic, and then the MERS epidemic a decade later, Baric and his allies realized that time was running out before a pandemic strain would make the inevitable jump from animals to human hosts. In The Invisible Siege, Werb unpacks the dynamic history and microscopic complexity of an organism that has wreaked cycles of havoc upon the world for millennia. Elegantly tracing decades of scientific investigation, Werb reveals how Baric's team of scientists hatched an audacious plan not merely to battle COVID-19 but to end pandemics forever. Yet as they raced to find a cure, they ran into a complicated nexus of science, ethics, industry, and politics that threatened to derail their efforts just as COVID-19 loomed ever larger. The Invisible Siege is an urgent and moving testament to the unprecedented scientific movement to stop COVID-19-and a powerful look at the infuriating factors that threaten to derail discovery and leave the world vulnerable to the inevitable coronaviruses to come"--
Subjects: COVID-19 (Disease); Epidemics; Virus diseases;
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A (very) short history of life on Earth : 4.6 billion years in 12 pithy chapters / by Gee, Henry,1962-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman-an entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place-in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to form membrane-bound bubbles that were mostly-faithful copies of their parents-a foamy lather of soap-bubble cells standing as tiny clenched fists, defiant against the lifeless world. Life on this planet has continued in much the same way for millennia, adapting to literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter and thriving, from these humblest beginnings to the thrilling and unlikely story of ourselves. In A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, Henry Gee zips through the last 4.6 billion years with infectious enthusiasm and intellectual rigor. Drawing on the very latest scientific understanding and writing in a clear, accessible style, he tells an enlightening tale of survival and persistence that illuminates the delicate balance within which life has always existed"--
Subjects: Evolution (Biology); Life;
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