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Sam and the waves / by Smith, Annette.; Reynolds, Pat.;: LSC; Subjects: Beaches; Swimming pools;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
A Life in Waves. by Whitcomb, Brett,film director.; Cineverse (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;: Originally produced by Cineverse in 2017.Explores the life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer, Suzanne Ciani. This documentary is a nostalgic look at one woman's journey, and the trials she overcame to succeed in a traditionally male-dominated art form.Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Subjects: Documentary films.; Arts.; Documentary films.; Women's studies.; Artists.; History.; Biography.;; unAPI
The coming wave : technology, power, and the twenty-first century's greatest dilemma / by Suleyman, Mustafa,author.; Bhaskar, Michael,author.;: Includes bibliographical references and index."A stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologies poses to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance--from a cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind. Imagine a world in which anyone with a $20,000 desktop DNA synthesizer could develop and unleash a deadly virus. Imagine an undetectable deepfake video of a U.S. president making a racial slur racing across the internet on the eve of an election. Imagine terrorists or paramilitaries stockpiling autonomous weapons designed to make their own decisions about when to engage. As cofounder of DeepMind, the pioneering AI company now owned by Google, Mustafa Suleyman has witnessed firsthand just how rapidly our technology is advancing--and how flawed our approaches to grappling with these changes are. The coming decades, he argues, will be defined by a burst of innovation, an inevitable wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies across fields like synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing. Driven forward by immense strategic and financial incentives, these breakthroughs will solve huge challenges and create vast wealth--but upheaval, too, on a once unimaginable scale. Will humankind make it through the narrow corridor between dystopia and catastrophe? In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how this new technological super-wave fits a historical pattern of innovation and proliferation, while departing from it in key ways: namely, the speed of change, the breadth of risks, and the wave's potential to democratize access to dangerous, world-altering power. The cumulative risks threaten the very nation state, humanity's centuries' old "grand bargain" of living under centralized authority in exchange for security. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into catastrophe, humanity is left in an existential bind, with techno-authoritarianism on one side and even more catastrophic outcomes, like societal collapse, on the other. We are about to cross a critical threshold in the history of our species. In this groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider, Suleyman firmly establishes "the containment problem"--or the challenge of maintaining human control over dangerous technologies--as the essential dilemma of our age, showing that radical steps must be taken if we are to live alongside technology of once unimaginable power"--; Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Information technology;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Wave of the sea dragon / by West, Tracey,1965-; Loveridge, Matt.;: Drake and the other Dragon Masters go to the island of Kapua seeking a Sea Dragon needed to help stop the evil wizard Astrid's dangerous False Life spell.Appeals to 1st-3rd graders.Reading level: Grade 2.LSC; Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Dragons; Magic; Wizards;; Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
To rule the waves : how the British navy shaped the modern world / by Herman, Arthur,1956-;: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy; Naval battles; Sea-power; Naval art and science;; © c2004., HarperCollins,; Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Mia Mayhem rides the waves / by West, Kara.; Hernandez, Leeza.;: Mia Mayhem learns some important things about herself and her abilities during a family vacation to the beach.Ages 5-9.LSC; Subjects: Macarooney, Mia (Fictitious character); Women superheroes; African American children; Ability; Vacations; Beaches;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Under the wave at Waimea / by Theroux, Paul,author.;: "From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember"--; Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Surfers; Self-actualization (Psychology);; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Love Monster & the extremely big wave / by Bright, Rachel.;: LSC; Subjects: Monsters; Surfing; Beaches;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The heat will kill you first : life and death on a scorched planet / by Goodell, Jeff,author.;: Includes bibliographical references and index."The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90° F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory event--one that culls out the most vulnerable people. But that is changing. As heatwaves become more intense and more common, they will become more democratic. As an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of environmental journalism for decades, Goodell's new book may be his most provocative yet, explaining how extreme heat will dramatically change the world as we know it"--; Subjects: Climatic changes.; Global warming.; Heat waves (Meteorology);; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI

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