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- How to become an accidental genius / by MacLeod, Elizabeth.; Wishinsky, Frieda.; Playford, Jennifer.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.Introduces young readers to both famous and lesser-known inventors who have changed the world.LSC- Subjects: Inventors; Inventors; Inventions; Inventions; Serendipity in science;
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- In a flight of starlings : the wonders of complex systems / by Parisi, Giorgio,author.; Carnell, Simon,1962-translator.; Parisi, Anna(Writer on science),contributor.; translation of:Parisi, Giorgio.In un volo di storni.English.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science In In a Flight of Starlings, already a #1 bestseller in his native Italy, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work: investigating the principles of physics by observing the flight of flocks of birds. Studying the movements of these communities, he has realized, proves an illuminating way into understanding complex systems of all kinds-collections of everything from atoms and planets to other animals like ourselves. Along the way, he reflects on the lessons he's taken from a life in pursuit of scientific truth: the importance of serendipity to the discovery of new ideas, the surprising kinship between physics and other disciplines, and the value of science to a thriving society. In so doing, he removes the practice of science from the confines of the laboratory and into the real world. Part elegant scientific treatise, part thrilling journey of discovery, In a Flight of Starlings is an invitation to find wonder in the world around us"--- Subjects: Physics;
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- Crimes of the future [videorecording] / by Cronenberg, David,1943-film director,screenwriter.; Lantos, Robert,1949-film producer.; Mortensen, Viggo,1958-actor.; Seydoux, Léa,1985-actor.; Speedman, Scott,actor.; Stewart, Kristen,1990-actor.; Serendipity Point Films,production company.; Sphere Films,publisher.;
Viggo Mortensen, Lea Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman.A performance artist who turns the removal of organs into real time theatre is forced to consider the most shocking performance of all as the government and a strange subculture take note of his act.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPA rating: R; for strong disturbing violent content and grisly images, graphic nudity and some language.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Feature films.; Science fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Mutation (Biology); Organ culture; Organs (Anatomy); Performance artists; Theater;
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- In Putin's footsteps : searching for the soul of an empire across Russia's eleven time zones / by Khrushcheva, Nina L.,1962-author.; Tayler, Jeffrey,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In Putin's Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler's unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia's dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades. With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1983, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on earth through their recreation of Vladimir Putin's fabled New Year's Eve speech planned across all eleven time zones. After taking over from Yeltsin in 1999, and then being elected president in a landslide, Putin traveled to almost two dozen countries and a quarter of Russia's eighty-nine regions to connect with ordinary Russians. His travels inspired the idea of a rousing New Year's Eve address delivered every hour at midnight throughout Russia's eleven time zones. The idea was beautiful, but quickly abandoned as an impossible feat. He correctly intuited, however, that the success of his presidency would rest on how the country's outback citizens viewed their place on the world stage. Today more than ever, Putin is even more determined to present Russia as a formidable nation. We need to understand why Russia has for centuries been an adversary of the West. Its size, nuclear arsenal, arms industry, and scientific community (including cyber-experts), guarantees its influence"--- Subjects: Khrushcheva, Nina L., 1962-; Tayler, Jeffrey; Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-; Regionalism;
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