Author: Hodges, Andrew, author.
Published: 2014
Call Number: B TURING
Format: Books
Summary: "This classic biography of the founder of computer science, reissued on the centenary of his birth with a substantial new preface by the author, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life. A gripping story of mathematics, computers, cryptography, and homosexual persecution, Andrew Hodges's acclaimed book captures both the inner and outer drama of Turing's life. Hodges tells how Turing's revolutionary idea of 1936--the concept of a universal machine--laid the foundation for the modern computer and how Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. The book also tells how this work was directly related to Turing's leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. At the same time, this is the tragic story of a man who, despite his wartime service, was eventually arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment program--all for trying to live honestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime"--Publisher description.
Author: Ries, Eric, 1978- author.
Published: 2011
Call Number: 658.11
Format: Books
Summary: "Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business. The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on 'validated learning,' rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs--in companies of all sizes--a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it's too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in an age when companies need to innovate more than ever"--Publisher's description.
Author: Wood, Dorothy, 1955- author.
Published: 2008
Call Number: 745.582
Format: Books
Summary: "Dorothy Wood's essential resource for the modern beader guides you through basic skills, tools and materials, before tackling more advanced techniques and projects"--Page 4 of cover
Author: Volponi, Paul.
Published: 2006 2005
Call Number: Y VOLPONI
Format: Books
Summary: Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught. "Marcus and Eddie are best friends who found the strength to break through the racial barrier. Marcus is black; Eddie is white... They are inseparable, watching each other's backs, both on and off the basketball court. But one decision--one mistake--will change their friendship, and their lives, forever. Can Marcus and Eddie rise above their differences and save their friendship?" --Back cover
Author: Fraser, Kennedy, author.
Published: 1998 1996
Call Number: 809.89 FRASER
Format: Books
Summary: Kennedy Fraser brings to the fourteen essays in this indispensible volume the sensitivity, freshness of observation, and offhand elegance that made her fashion reportage for The New Yorker so legendary. Now Fraser turns her attention to women: women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often render them invisible. In Ornament and Silence, we see Virginia Woolf, haunted and eventually destroyed by the sexual secrets of her childhood. We meet Flaubert's theatrically importunate mistress, Louise Colet, the one woman who could briefly slip past the master's misogyny. Fraser offers vibrant portraits of the Russian novelist Nina Berberova and the English naturalist Miriam Rothschild. And here is Fraser herself, learning her craft at The New Yorker, tending her English garden and--on every page--delighting us with the manifold felicities of her prose.-- Back cover.
Author: Lake, Simon, 1866-1945, author. Corey, Herbert, 1872-1954.
Published: 1938
Call Number: B LAKE
Format: Books
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Author: Chiappe, Gaby, creator, screenwriter. Karukoski, Dome, director. Jumbo, Cush, actor. Howle, Billy, 1989- actor. McMeekin, Douggie, actor.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: BEAST SEASON 1
Format: Video disc
Summary: After learning the police investigation into the fatal hit and run of her young son Martie has been dropped, Frances Cairns takes matters into her own hands. Mystery writer Felix Lane suffers a tragic loss; his nine-year-old son is killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Desperate for vengeance, Lane bypasses the authorities, adopts a new identity, and begins looking for clues that will lead him to the culprit. The suspense reaches hair-raising levels as Felix's vendetta leads him to infiltrate an affluent family rife with its own intrigues. But who among this highly suspect bunch is the killer? And will Felix follow his mission to its bitter end?
Author: Noyce, Phillip, film director. Corkin, Andrew, 1985- film producer. Sparling, Chris, screenwriter. Watts, Naomi, 1968- actor. Gobbo, Colton, actor.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: DESPERAT
Format: Video disc
Summary: A recently widowed mother races to save her teenage son when she's out jogging and a shooting takes place at his school. Unfolding in real time, a "riveting and pulse-pounding" thriller from award-winning director Phillip Noyce. Recently widowed mother Amy Carr is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town. As she's on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as shooting takes place at her son's school. Miles away, on foot in the dense forest, Amy desperately races against time to save her son.
Author: McNamara, Sean, 1963- film director, film producer. Berman, Barry, 1957- screenwriter. Schamus, James, 1959- screenwriter. Hong, James Pang, film producer. Currie, Paul, 1968- film producer.
Published: 2022
Call Number: DRAMA KINGS DAUGHTER
Format: Video disc
Summary: In 1684 France, Louis XIV, the Sun King, is the most powerful and influential monarch on the planet. But his birthday is approaching along with a rare solar eclipse and he's worried about the future of France. His spiritual advisor, Pr?e La Chaise, comforts him, while his physician, Dr. Labarthe informs him that scientists believe mermaids contain a life force that grants immortality. Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture a mermaid's life force, but his immovable will is challenged when his long-hidden illegitimate daughter forms a bond with the magical creature.
Author: Wright, Joe, 1972- film director. Bevan, Tim, film producer. Fellner, Eric, film producer. Heeley, Guy, film producer. Schmidt, Erica, screenwriter.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: DRAMA CYRANO
Format: Video disc
Summary: A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her, and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.
Author: Wright, Joe, 1972- film director. Schmidt, Erica, screenwriter. Bevan, Tim, film producer. Fellner, Eric, film producer. Heeley, Guy, film producer.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: CYRANO
Format: Video disc
Summary: A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her, and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.
Author: Emmerich, Roland, film director, screenwriter, film producer. Kloser, Harald, 1956- screenwriter, film producer, composer (expression) Cohen, Spenser, screenwriter. Berry, Halle, actor. Wilson, Patrick, 1973- actor.
Published: 2022
Call Number: MOONFALL BLU-RAY
Format: Video disc
Summary: A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life, as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone they love, only to find that they might have prepared for the wrong mission.
Author: McNamara, Tony (Director), creator. Fanning, Elle, 1998- actor. Hoult, Nicholas, 1989- actor. Fox, Phoebe, 1987- actor. Dhawan, Sacha, 1984- actor.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: GREAT SEASON 2
Format: Video disc
Summary: The Great returns in Season Two from Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee Tony McNamara (The Favourite). Catherine finally takes the Russian throne for her own--but if she thought coup-ing her husband was difficult, it's nothing compared to the realities of liberating a country that doesn't want to be. She'll battle her court, her team, even her own mother in a bid to bring the Enlightenment to Russia.
Author: Tremaine, Jeff, film director, film producer. Jonze, Spike, film producer. Knoxville, Johnny, 1971- film producer, actor. Steve-O, 1974- actor. Pontius, Chris, 1974- actor.
Published: 2022
Call Number: JACKASS
Format: Video disc
Summary: After eleven years, the Jackass crew is back for their final adventure.
Author: Emmerich, Roland, film director, film producer, screenwriter. Kloser, Harald, 1956- screenwriter, film producer. Cohen, Spenser, screenwriter. Berry, Halle, actor. Wilson, Patrick, 1973- actor.
Published: 2022
Call Number: MOONFALL
Format: Video disc
Summary: Mankind is threatened when a mysterious force throws the moon out of orbit, and sends it hurtling on a collision course with Earth. A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life, as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone they love, only to find that they might have prepared for the wrong mission.
Author: Honeyborne, James, 1960- television producer. Brownlow, Mark, television producer. Doherty, Orla, television producer. Jeffs, Kathryn, television producer. Ridgeon, Will, television producer.
Published: 2018
Call Number: 578.77 BLUE 2
Format: Video disc
Summary: David Attenborough returns to the world's oceans in this sequel to the acclaimed documentary filming rare and unusual creatures of the deep, as well as documenting the problems our oceans face.
Author: Chiappe, Gaby, creator, screenwriter. Karukoski, Dome, director. Jumbo, Cush, actor. Howle, Billy, 1989- actor. McMeekin, Douggie, actor.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: BEAST SEASON 1
Format: Video disc
Summary: After learning the police investigation into the fatal hit and run of her young son Martie has been dropped, Frances Cairns takes matters into her own hands. Mystery writer Felix Lane suffers a tragic loss; his nine-year-old son is killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Desperate for vengeance, Lane bypasses the authorities, adopts a new identity, and begins looking for clues that will lead him to the culprit. The suspense reaches hair-raising levels as Felix's vendetta leads him to infiltrate an affluent family rife with its own intrigues. But who among this highly suspect bunch is the killer? And will Felix follow his mission to its bitter end?
Author: Noyce, Phillip, film director. Corkin, Andrew, 1985- film producer. Sparling, Chris, screenwriter. Watts, Naomi, 1968- actor. Gobbo, Colton, actor.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: DESPERAT
Format: Video disc
Summary: A recently widowed mother races to save her teenage son when she's out jogging and a shooting takes place at his school. Unfolding in real time, a "riveting and pulse-pounding" thriller from award-winning director Phillip Noyce. Recently widowed mother Amy Carr is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town. As she's on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as shooting takes place at her son's school. Miles away, on foot in the dense forest, Amy desperately races against time to save her son.
Author: McNamara, Sean, 1963- film director, film producer. Berman, Barry, 1957- screenwriter. Schamus, James, 1959- screenwriter. Hong, James Pang, film producer. Currie, Paul, 1968- film producer.
Published: 2022
Call Number: DRAMA KINGS DAUGHTER
Format: Video disc
Summary: In 1684 France, Louis XIV, the Sun King, is the most powerful and influential monarch on the planet. But his birthday is approaching along with a rare solar eclipse and he's worried about the future of France. His spiritual advisor, Pr?e La Chaise, comforts him, while his physician, Dr. Labarthe informs him that scientists believe mermaids contain a life force that grants immortality. Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture a mermaid's life force, but his immovable will is challenged when his long-hidden illegitimate daughter forms a bond with the magical creature.
Author: Wright, Joe, 1972- film director. Bevan, Tim, film producer. Fellner, Eric, film producer. Heeley, Guy, film producer. Schmidt, Erica, screenwriter.
Published: 2022 2021
Call Number: DRAMA CYRANO
Format: Video disc
Summary: A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her, and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.
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