Search:

Results 1 to 7 of 7

Genetic roulette [videorecording] : the gamble of our lives / by Smith, Jeffrey M.(CARDINAL)423607; Oz, Lisa.(CARDINAL)649005; Irons, Jeremy,1948-(CARDINAL)809321; Institute for Responsible Technology.; Gaia Foundation.; African Biodiversity Network.;
Bonus disc contains: Seeds of Freedom (28 min. ; produced by The Gaia Foundation and African Biodiversity Network ; narrated by Jeremy Irons) -- The Documented health risks of genetically modified foods (42 min.) -- The Politics of GMOs (16 min.) -- 12 short Public Service Announcements.Edited by Micah Salaberrios ; original music, Joey Peters, Brianna Eason, Kevin Macleod, Setunimam, ERH, Xserra, Rhumphries.Narrated by Lisa Oz."Never-before-seen evidence points to genetically engineered foods as a major contributor to rising disease rates in the U.S. population, especially among children...Monsanto's strong arm tactics, the FDA's fraudulent policies, and how the USDA ignores a growing health emergency are also laid bare. This sometimes shocking film may change your diet, help you protect your family, and accelerate the consumer tipping point against genetically modified organisms." -- Container.DVD.
Subjects: Genetically modified foods.; Genetically modified foods; Crops; Food; Transgenic plants.; Agricultural biotechnology.; Agricultural biotechnology; Food industry and trade.; Food industry and trade; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Feature films.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
unAPI

Foundation's edge / by Asimov, Isaac,1920-1992,author.(CARDINAL)155738;
Councilman -- Mayor -- Historian -- Space -- Speaker -- Earth -- Farmer -- Farmwoman -- Hyperspace -- Table -- Sayshell -- Agent -- University -- Forward! -- Gaia-S -- Convergence -- Gaia -- Collision -- Decision -- Conclusion.Interplanetary intrigue, hyperspace pursuit, and future technology combine with a desperate search for the planet Earth.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Novels.; Romans.; Seldon, Hari (Fictitious character); Life on other planets; Psychohistory; Proofs (Printing);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Foundation's edge / by Asimov, Isaac,1920-1992.(CARDINAL)155738;
At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations has come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation have proved victorious, and now they return to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all--and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now two exiled citizens of the Foundation--a renegade Councilman and a doddering historian--set out in search of the mythical planet Earth...and proof that the Second Foundation still exists. Meanwhile someone--or something--outside of both Foundations seems to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final, shocking destiny at the very end of the universe.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Science fiction.; Seldon, Hari (Fictitious character); Life on other planets; Psychohistory; Quests (Expeditions);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
unAPI

Foundation and earth / by Asimov, Isaac,1920-1992.(CARDINAL)155738;
Barely a millisecond has passed since the close of Foundation's Edge, and Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, finds himself entrusted with an awesome task: to determine the very future of Galactic development. Rejecting the anarchy of a Galactic Empire built on the technology of the First Foundation, as well as that of an Empire based on the mentalics of the Second Foundation, Trevize chooses Gaia. The planet Gaia is a supra-superorganism, a psychic confederation of peoples that merged with humankind, it will metamorphose into a supra-superorganism dedicated to the common good - a world Trevize calls Galaxia. But what instinctive force has led Trevize to this extraordianry concept - does it perhaps lie deep within the ancient history of another great world known as Earth? Trevize is compelled to learn the answer. Discovering that all reference to Earth is mysteriously missing from the Galactic Library at Trantor, he sets out in search of the "lost" planet. And as he and his companions, historian Janov Pelorat and the beautiful Gaian woman Bliss, travel from one forbidden world to the next, they face a daring and danger-filled odyssey that will decide the fate of the Empire - and humanity itself.--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Seldon, Hari (Fictitious character); Life on other planets; Psychohistory;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 17
unAPI

Foundation and Earth / by Asimov, Isaac,1920-1992,author.(CARDINAL)155738;
The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man's fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Science fiction.; Novels.; Romans.; Seldon, Hari (Fictitious character); Life on other planets; Psychohistory; Life on other planets;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

White night / by Marsh, JJ.;
If there's one thing Beatrice Stubbs hates more than weddings, it's wedding planning. So when a missing persons' case in Finland offers a chance of escape, she grabs assistant Theo and runs to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Two environmental protestors have disappeared after an anti-nuclear demonstration in Helsinki turned violent. Suspicions revolve around the energy companies and their controversial modular reactor. But the woman in charge is the same person who hired Beatrice to find the teenagers. Is this a serious job or a PR exercise? Using natural charm and acquired skills, Theo infiltrates the Gaia Warriors to discover passion, ideology and deep fissures in their foundations. Meanwhile, Beatrice tackles the energy giants, allies herself with the police and reports to her boss. Confidential information finds its way into the press. Her ship has sprung a leak. Family demands grow unbearable and she's run out of time. When a storm hits the Finnish coast, finding the young people becomes an emergency. On an insider tip, Theo rushes to the rescue. Beatrice is trapped. The police won't listen and a Nordic giant is on her tail. She has to place her faith in a new acquaintance and risk everything on a gut feeling. Or lose more than one life. Can Beatrice trust her right-hand man?
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Stubbs, Beatrice (Fictitious character); Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Systems / by Shanken, Edward A.,1964-editor.(CARDINAL)350007;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- FOUNDATIONS. Systems theory and new paradigm, 1988 / Fritjof Capra -- To know and to let know: An applied theory of knowledge / Heinz von Foerster -- A mathematical theory of communication, 1948 / Claude E. Shannon -- Recent contributions to the mathematical theory of communication, 1949 / Warren Weaver -- The use of human beings, 1950 / Norbert Wiener -- Contesting for the body of information: The Macy Conference on Cybernetics (1946 and 1953), 1999 / N. Katherine Hayles -- Style, grace and information in primitive art, 1967 / Gregory Bateson -- Our own metaphor, 1972 / Mary Catherine Bateson -- Cybernetics of cybernetics, 1973 / Heinz von Foerster -- The tree of knowledge: Biological roots of human understanding, 1984 / Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela -- Dancing with systems, 2001 / Donella H. Meadows -- CYBERNETIC ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN. Cybernated art, 1966 / Nam June Paik -- The cybernetic stance: My process and purpose, 1968 / Roy Ascott -- Art society feedback: In conversation with Emily Pethick, 2011 / Stephen Willats -- Woody's famous feedback rap, 1973 / Steina and Woody Vasulka -- Notes for a proposal on conceptual gaming, 1973 / Frank Gillette -- From the gun controller to the mandala: The cybernetic cinema of John and James Whitney, 2009 / Zabet Patterson -- Art and telematics: Towards a network consciousness, 1981 / Roy Ascott -- The architectural relevance of cybernetics, 1969 / Gordon Pask -- The fun palace project (1961-64), 2000 / Mary Louise Lobsinger -- The architectural relevance of Gordon Pask, 2007 / Usman Haque -- Intelligent cities, 2007 / William J. Mitchell -- Morphogenesis and the mathematics of emergence, 2004 / Michael WeinstockSYSTEMS AESTHETICS. Systems aesthetics, 1968 / Jack Burnham -- Real time systems, 1969 / Jack Burnham -- In conversation with Jeanne Siegel, 1971 / Hans Haacke -- Reprogramming systems aesthetics, 2009-14 / Edward A. Shanken -- Systems of art, 2008 / Francis Halsall -- Systems symptoms: Jack Burnham's 'Systems aesthetics', 2011 / Caroline A. Jones -- The mimesis of thinking, 2005 / Boris Groys -- A cultural systems approach to collaboration in art and technology, 2005 / Stephen Jones -- GENERATIVE SYSTEMS. Lines of development, 1943-84 / Richard Paul Lohse -- Free stochastic music, 1965 / Iannis Xenakis -- Iannis Xenakis and systems thinking, 2011 / Phivos-Angelos Kollias -- Statement, 1971 / Manfred Mohr -- Mind/Senses/Hand: The generative systems program at the Art Institute of Chicago 1970-80, 1990 / Sonia Landy Sheridan -- Generating and organizing variety in the arts, 1976 / Brian Eno -- Statement, c. 2004 / Michael Joaquin Grey -- Art as a living system, 1999 / Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau -- Autopoiesis, 2000 / Ken Rinaldo -- Context machines, 2013 / Benjamin Bogart and Philippe Pasquier -- Google will eat itself, 2005 / Ubermorgen.com, with Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico -- Systems stories and model worlds, 2005 / Mitchell Whitelaw -- Generator: The value of software art, 2007 / Geoff Cox -- ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS. Operating manual for spaceship earth, 1969 / R. Buckminster Fuller -- Geophysiology: The science of Gaia, 1989 / James Lovelock -- Shifting positions towards the earth: Art and environmental awareness, 1993 / Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison -- Entomogenic climate change: Insect bio-acoustics and future forest ecology, 2009 / David Dunn and Jim Crutchfield -- The field of cultural production, or the economic world reversed, 1983 / Pierre Bourdieu -- Putting a glitch in the field: Bourdieu, actor network theory and contemporary music, 2008 / Nick Prior -- The function of art and the differentiation of the art system, 1995 / Niklas Luhmann -- Systematically observing surveillance: Paradoxes of observation according to Niklas Luhmann's systems theory, 1999 / Christian Katti -- Some experiments in art and politics, 2011 / Bruno Latour.In the late 1950s, experiments such as the cybernetic sculptures of Nicolas Schöffer or the programmatic music compositions of John Cage and Iannis Xenakis transposed systems theory from the sciences to the arts. By the 1960s, artists as diverse as Roy Ascott, Hans Haacke, Robert Morris, Sonia Sheridan, and Stephen Willats were breaking with accepted aesthetics to embrace open systems that emphasized organism over mechanism, dynamic processes of interaction among elements, and the observer's role as an inextricable part of the system. Jack Burnham's 1968 Artforum essay "Systems Aesthetics" and his 1970 "Software" exhibition marked the high point of systems-based art until its resurgence in the changed conditions of the twenty-first century. Systems traces this radical shift in aesthetics from its roots in mid twentieth-century general systems theory, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence to the cutting-edge science of the present. The collected texts examine the connections between advanced technological systems, our bodies and minds; the relation of musical to spatial and architectural structures; and the ways in which systems-based art projects can create self-generating entities and networks, alter our experience of time, change the configurations of social relations, cross cultural borders, and interact with threatened ecosystems.
Subjects: Arts, Modern; Arts, Modern; System theory.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Results 1 to 7 of 7