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Explorers : great tales of adventure and endurance / by MacLeod, Alasdair.; Gilbert, Richard,editor.; Headon, Deirdre.; Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain); Smithsonian Institution.;
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Subjects: Explorers.; Discoveries in geography.;
© 2010., DK Pub.,
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Great discoveries : explorations that changed history / by Knauer, Kelly.;
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Subjects: Discoveries in geography.; Discoveries in science.; Paleontology; Archaeology; Astronomy;
© c2009., Time Home Entertainment,
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Polar exploration / by Hamilton, Sue L.,1959-;
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Subjects: Discoveries in geography;
© c2014., ABDO Pub.,
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Annihilation [videorecording] / by Garland, Alex,1970-screenwriter,film director.; Rudin, Scott,1958-film producer.; Isaac, Oscar,actor.; Rodriguez, Gina,1984-actor.; Novotny, Tuva,1979-actor.; Gyasi, David,1980-actor.; Leigh, Jennifer Jason,1962-actor.; Portman, Natalie,1981-actor.; Thompson, Tessa,1983-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):VanderMeer, Jeff.Annihilation.; Paramount Pictures Corporation,publisher,presenter.; Skydance Productions,presenter.; DNA Films,production company.; Scott Rudin Productions,production company.;
Music, Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow ; editor, Barney Pilling ; director of photography, Rob Hardy.Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, David Gyasi, Oscar Isaac, Gina Rodriguez, Benedict Wong, Tuva Novotny.Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; VanderMeer, Jeff.; Discoveries in geography; Scientists; Women scientists;
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Annihilation [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Garland, Alex,1970-screenwriter,film director.; Rudin, Scott,1958-film producer.; Isaac, Oscar,actor.; Rodriguez, Gina,1984-actor.; Novotny, Tuva,1979-actor.; Gyasi, David,1980-actor.; Leigh, Jennifer Jason,1962-actor.; Portman, Natalie,1981-actor.; Thompson, Tessa,1983-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):VanderMeer, Jeff.Annihilation.; Paramount Pictures Corporation,publisher,presenter.; Skydance Productions,presenter.; DNA Films,production company.; Scott Rudin Productions,production company.;
Music, Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow ; editor, Barney Pilling ; director of photography, Rob Hardy.Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, David Gyasi, Oscar Isaac, Gina Rodriguez, Benedict Wong, Tuva Novotny.Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format ; Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; VanderMeer, Jeff.; Discoveries in geography; Scientists; Women scientists;
For private home use only.
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Historical atlas of expeditions / by Farrington, Karen;
Subjects: Explorers; Discoveries in geography; Voyages and travels;
© c2000., Facts on File,
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Exploration in the Renaissance / by Elliott, Lynne,1968-;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses (p. 32), and index.Provides an overview of exploration and what the life of an explorer was like during the Renaissance.LSC
Subjects: Discoveries in geography; Renaissance;
© c2009., Crabtree Pub.,
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Alone against the north : an expedition into the unknown / by Shoalts, Adam,1986-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Shoalts, Adam, 1986-; Discoveries in geography.; Explorers;
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The explorer's gene : why we seek big challenges, new flavors, and the blank spots on the map / by Hutchinson, Alex,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Off the beaten path, on unmarked trails, we are wired to explore. More than just a need to get outside, the search for the unknown is a specific, primal urge that has shaped the history of our species and continues to mold our behavior in ways we are just beginning to understand. In fact, the latest evolutionary neuroscience suggests that exploration is an essential ingredient of human life. Exploration, it turns out, isn't merely a hobby-it's our story. In this long-awaited follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Endure, Alex Hutchinson dives headfirst into a fascinating and provocative new field of research, examining how exploration is a fundamental part of what makes us human and revealing how, even in our fully mapped modern world, the pursuit of the unknown remains an indispensable mindset in all walks of life. And yet, it has never been easier to live an exploration-free life, without the struggle and uncertainty that true exploration-of places, experiences, and ideas-requires. With the digital world frequently exploiting the neural circuitry behind our drive to explore, we receive the illusion of novelty without accompanying growth. This despite mounting evidence that our lives are better-more productive, more satisfying, and more fun-when we ditch the maps on our phones and find our own way. From paddling the lost rivers of the northern Canadian wilderness to the ocean-spanning voyages of the Polynesians, The Explorer's Gene combines riveting stories of exploration with cutting-edge insights from behavioral psychology and neuroscience. The end result offers a singular approach to finding meaning in our past struggles, embracing the possibility of failure in our future, and crucially, recognizing when our present is good enough"--
Subjects: Adaptability (Psychology); Cognitive psychology.; Curiosity.; Demographic anthropology.; Discoveries in geography.; Evolutionary developmental biology.; Experiential learning.; Human beings; Voyages and travels.;
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The map of knowledge : a thousand-year history of how classical ideas were lost and found / by Moller, Violet,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index."The foundations of modern knowledge--philosophy, math, astronomy, geography--were laid by the Greeks, whose ideas were written on scrolls and stored in libraries across the Mediterranean and beyond. But as the vast Roman Empire disintegrated, so did appreciation of these precious texts. Christianity cast a shadow over so-called pagan thought, books were burned, and the library of Alexandria, the greatest repository of classical knowledge, was destroyed. Yet some texts did survive and The Map of Knowledge explores the role played by seven cities around the Mediterranean--rare centers of knowledge in a dark world, where scholars supported by enlightened heads of state collected, translated and shared manuscripts. In 8th century Baghdad, Arab discoveries augmented Greek learning. Exchange within the thriving Muslim world brought that knowledge to Cordoba, Spain. Toledo became a famous center of translation from Arabic into Latin, a portal through which Greek and Arab ideas reached Western Europe. Salerno, on the Italian coast, was the great center of medical studies, and Sicily, ancient colony of the Greeks, was one of the few places in the West to retain contact with Greek culture and language. Scholars in these cities helped classical ideas make their way to Venice in the 15th century, where printers thrived and the Renaissance took root. The Map of Knowledge follows three key texts--Euclid's Elements, Ptolemy's The Almagest, and Galen's writings on medicine--on a perilous journey driven by insatiable curiosity about the world"--
Subjects: Learning and scholarship; East and West.;
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