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Goddess in the machine / by Johnson, Lora Beth.;
Bound for humanity's new colony planet, seventeen-year-old Andra wakes up from a cryogenic sleep 1,000 years later than she was supposed to, forcing her to navigate an unfamiliar planet where technology is considered magic and its practitioners revered as deities.LSC
Subjects: Science fiction.; Artificial intelligence; Cryonics; Space colonies;
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Welcome to the stupidpocalypse : survival tips for the dumbageddon / by Reynolds, Stewart,author.;
Welcome to the Stupidpocalypse-where common sense has become the rarest element on Earth and rage is all the rage. Social media darling Brittlestar, A.K.A. Stewart Reynolds, brings readers a book of essays similar to his online presence. In these essays, he provides a "voice of reason" by approaching some of the folly and absurdity in the world of social media and politics-not to mention the just plain dumbness of humanity-with a dose of common sense and modern reasoning.
Subjects: Essays.; American wit and humor.; Bloggers; Comedians;
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5, SE, 6, 7 iPhone made easy / by Alger, Kieran.; Smith, Chris(Technology journalist);
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Subjects: iOS (Electronic resource); iPhone (Smartphone); Smartphones.; Cell phones.; Mobile computing.; Pocket computers.;
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Bombshell [videorecording] : the Hedy Lamarr story / by Dean, Alexandra,1979-screenwriter,film director,film producer,editor of moving image work.; Haggiag, Adam,1983-film producer.; Drew, Katherine,film producer.; Lamarr, Hedy,1913-2000,interviewee (expression); Brooks, Mel,1926-interviewee (expression); Bogdanovich, Peter,1939-interviewee (expression); Osborne, Robert,1932-2017,interviewee (expression); Reframed Pictures (Firm),presenter,production company.; American Masters Pictures,production company.; Submarine Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Artemis Rising Foundation,production company.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,publisher,film distributor.; Zeitgeist Films,publisher.;
Editors, Lindy Jankura, Penelope Falk, Alexandra Dean ; director of photography, Buddy Squires ; music, Jeremy Bullock, Keegan DeWitt.Interviewees: Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Osborne.What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.E.DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Historical films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000.; Motion picture actors and actresses; Inventors; Immigrants;
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Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world / by Applebaum, Anne,1964-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them. We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents. But in the 21st century, that bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are underpinned not by one dictator, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, surveillance technologies, and professional propagandists, all of which operate across multiple regimes, from China to Russia to Iran. Corrupt companies in one country do business with corrupt companies in another. The police in one country can arm and train the police in another, and propagandists share resources and themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America. International condemnation and economic sanctions cannot move the autocrats. Even popular opposition movements, from Venezuela to Hong Kong to Moscow, don't stand a chance. The members of Autocracy, Inc, aren't linked by a unifying ideology, like communism, but rather a common desire for power, wealth, and impunity. In this urgent treatise, which evokes George Kennan's essay calling for "containment" of the Soviet Union, Anne Applebaum calls for the democracies to fundamentally reorient their policies to fight a new kind of threat"--
Subjects: Democracy.; Dictatorship.; Political corruption.; Power (Social sciences);
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To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods [electronic resource] : by Chang, Molly X..aut; cloudLibrary;
She has power over death. He has power over her. When two enemies strike a dangerous bargain, will they end a war . . . or ignite one? “A thrilling tale of magic and murder, intrigue and betrayal.”—Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sword Catcher Heroes die, cowards live. Daughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen. Blessed by Death, born with the ability to pull the life right out of mortal bodies, Ruying shouldn’t have to fear these foreign invaders, but she does. Especially because she wants to keep herself and her family safe. When Ruying’s Gift is discovered by an enemy prince, he offers her an impossible deal: If she becomes his private assassin and eliminates his political rivals—whose deaths he swears would be for the good of both their worlds and would protect her people from further brutalization—her family will never starve or suffer harm again. But to accept this bargain, she must use the powers she has always feared, powers that will shave years off her own existence. Can Ruying trust this prince, whose promises of a better world make her heart ache and whose smiles make her pulse beat faster? Are the evils of this agreement really in the service of a much greater good? Or will she betray her entire nation by protecting those she loves the most?
Subjects: Electronic books.; Epic; Cultural Heritage; Action & Adventure;
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Discovering Titanic's remains / by Goldish, Meish.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.After the Titanic sank in 1912, many schemes were proposed to lift the great ship from its watery grave. But there were problems no one knew exactly where the Titanic had sunk, and, even if they had, the technology to reach the ship, which lay on the ocean floor almost two miles down, didn't exist. By the 1970s, however, new technologies allowed explorers like Dr. Richard Ballard to search the deep ocean. Finally, in 1985, Dr. Ballard found something.
Subjects: Titanic (Steamship); Shipwrecks;
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Theft [text (large print)] : A Novel. by Gurnah, Abdulrazak.;
At the turn of the 21st century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. As tourism, technology, and unexpected opportunities and perils reach their quiet corner of the world, each arrives at a different understanding of what it means to take your fate into your own hands. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Historical / General; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / World Literature / Africa / East Africa;
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Proving ground : the untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer / by Kleiman, Kathy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."After the end of World War II, top-secret research continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer-a machine built to calculate a single ballistic trajectory in twenty seconds rather than forty hours by human hand-even though there were no instruction codes or programming languages in existence. But their story, never told to the reporters and scientists who thronged the huge computer after it became public, was lost. Kathy Kleiman, through meticulous research and vivid prose, brings these women back to life, and back into the historical record. For more than two decades, she met with four of the original six ENIAC Programmers, poured over documentation and images, and recorded extensive oral histories with the women about their work. She found stories that had been relegated and dismissed by even computer history experts, who had assumed the women in the old black-and-white pictures with ENIAC were nothing more than models. PROVING GROUND is a character-driven narrative that restores these women to their rightful place as technological revolutionaries. As the tech world continues to struggle with gender imbalance and its far-reaching consequences, the story of the ENIAC Programmers' groundbreaking work is more urgently necessary than ever before, and PROVING GROUND is the celebration they deserve"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Computer programmers; ENIAC (Computer); Women computer programmers;
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New cold wars : China's rise, Russia's invasion, and America's struggle to defend the West / by Sanger, David E.,author.; Brooks, Mary K.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries -- Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia -- based on deep reporting from inside the White House, U.S. intelligence agencies, technology firms, and foreign governments"--
Subjects: Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-; Xi, Jinping.; Cold War.; Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022.; Strategic rivalries (World politics);
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