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Chaos [videorecording] / by Czerny, Henry.; Derbas, Michael.; Giglio, Tony.; Jones, Huw Penallt.; Phillippe, Ryan,1974-(CARDINAL)848147; Pierce, Michael(Michael A.); Snipes, Wesley.(CARDINAL)347120; Statham, Jason,1972-; Waddell, Justine.; Wilding, Gavin.; Chaotic Films UK Limited.; Chaotic Productions.; Lions Gate Films (Santa Monica, Calif.)(CARDINAL)340342; Möbius Entertainment (Firm); Mark Williams Entertainment, Inc.; Mobius International.(CARDINAL)819097;

Director of photography, Richard Greatrex ; editor, Sean Barton ; music, Trevor Jones ; costume designer, Bobbie Read ; production designer, Chris August.Jason Statham, Ryan Phillippe, Wesley Snipes, Justine Waddell, Henry Czerny.After a deadly bank heist, Detectives Quentin Conners and Shane Dekker are drawn into a mysterious case where nothing is what it seems. Pulling the strings is a criminal mastermind who seems to kill without warning or reason. Abound with random acts of violence and deception, the only hope for survival is finding an order to the chaos.MPAA rating: R; violence and language.DVD ; Region 1 ; widescreen (2.35:1, 16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo., NTSC.

Subjects: Fiction films.; Police films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Adventure films.; Feature films.; Suspense films.; Bank robberies; Chaotic behavior in systems; Computer viruses; Criminal investigation; Detectives; Murder; Asesinato; Policía; Robos bancarios;

Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 15

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Chaotic neutral : how the Democrats lost their soul in the center / by Burmila, Ed,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-323) and index."In Chaotic Neutral, political scientist Ed Burmila tracks the evolution (or devolution) of the Democratic Party--from the New Deal era to the pandemic, when, even in the midst of a genuine national crisis, the Dems could not manage to pass such sweeping progressive legislation. Why did the Democrats initially abandon their principles, and why haven't they been able to grasp that they need a new strategy in the face of decades of diminishing returns? To offer guidance, Burmila identifies ten recurring patterns of behavior and key aspects of their approach to politics that have left the Dems politically inept and in the position of permanent also-rans-even when they win! If we are going to be stuck with a two-party system for the foreseeable future, Burmila argues, then the Democratic Party must become an effective counterweight to the Republicans' death cult. Breaking free of these pathologies of learned helplessness and attachment to the status quo is the only way to get there. Chaotic Neutral captures not only the Democrats' calculated shift toward neoliberalism and the center, but also the Republican party's response of moving further right, in the knowledge that the Dems will continue trying to meet them in the middle. It also explains that the Democrats' refusal to acknowledge this new political reality has brought them increasingly out of touch as the stakes climb higher. To understand the possibilities for their survival, we need to consider how and why the Democrats got here, and where they must go next"--

Subjects: Democratic Party (U.S.); Democratic Party (U.S.); Democratic Party (U.S.); Neoliberalism; Progressivism (United States politics);

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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Guided growth : educational and behavioral interventions for children and teens with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and early trauma / by Chasnoff, Ira,author.; Powell, Ronald,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-335).Introduction -- How does learning take place? -- Understanding the misunderstood: factors affecting a child's behavior and readiness to learn -- How the brain works -- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: behavior belongs in the brain -- Alcohol, trauma, and stress regulation in the brain -- Toward one-on-one: individual behavior interventions -- Effective educational strategies -- Toward a proactive classroom -- Social-emotional learning -- The home/school bridge -- Afterword -- Bibliography.One of the greatest challenges teachers and parents face is the increasing number of children who do not respond to traditional instruction and classroom management techniques. Many of the children who present such a challenge are those who were prenatally exposed to alcohol and illicit drugs. To complicate matters, many - if not most - of these children suffered significant emotional and social trauma early in their lives. In the past twenty years, we have learned about these children and the chaotic lives many of them face. The difficulty has been translating this growing body of knowledge into practical information teachers can use in the classroom and parents can use at home. Guided Growth incorporates the latest research-based information into a guide designed for teachers, parents, physicians, psychologists - for anyone who works with children. The authors ask the reader to consider the child affected by prenatal substance exposure or early trauma and to shift perceptions - from seeing the child as one who is willfully disobedient to one whose central nervous system may have been affected by conditions that were beyond his or her control. Ultimately, Guided Growth relies on a key lesson learned from neuroscience: if we are to influence the hearts and behaviors of others, we must do so by using the tools of caring and compassion; in this way we can remain open to the needs of those around us who are suffering from the deepest hurts. Whether those hurts are in our children, the adults in our children's lives, or in ourselves, they are rooted in our deepest needs to feel that we are understood, that we are felt, and that our lives matter. A child's hurts can only be healed through interaction with a loving and caring adult. Guided Growth knows that it is within your capacity to be the one.

Subjects: Children of prenatal alcohol abuse; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.;

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Ten patterns that explain the universe / by Clegg, Brian,author.(CARDINAL)530574;

"How patterns--from diagrams of spacetime to particle trails revealed by supercolliders--offer clues to the fundamental workings of the physical world."--Amazon."Our universe might appear chaotic, but deep down it's simply a myriad of rules working independently to create patterns of action, force, and consequence. In Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe, Brian Clegg explores the phenomena that make up the very fabric of our world by examining ten essential sequenced systems. From diagrams that show the deep relationships between space and time to the quantum behaviors that rule the way that matter and light interact, Clegg shows how these patterns provide a unique view of the physical world and its fundamental workings. Guiding readers on a tour of our world and the universe beyond, Clegg describes the cosmic microwave background, sometimes called the "echo of the big bang," and how it offers clues to the universe's beginnings; the diagrams that illustrate Einstein's revelation of the intertwined nature of space and time; the particle trail patterns revealed by the Large Hadron Collider and other accelerators; and the simple-looking patterns that predict quantum behavior (and decorated Richard Feynman's van). Clegg explains how the periodic table reflects the underlying pattern of the configuration of atoms, discusses the power of the number line, demonstrates the explanatory uses of tree diagrams, and more."--Back cover.

Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Popular works.; Cosmology; Quantum cosmology; Space and time;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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The weight of nature : how a changing climate changes our brains / by Aldern, Clayton Page,1990-author.(CARDINAL)873974;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-308) and index.Tension -- Part 1: Push/Pull -- A history of forgetting -- Wet machines -- Who killed Tyson Morlock? -- Part 2: Friction -- Bloom -- Spilling -- The body keeps the storm -- Part III: Displacement -- Karl Friston's theory of everything -- Burn scar -- The grammar of Earth -- Counterbalance."For readers of Kolbert's Under a White Sky and Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life, to all those who love science books about the brain. The effects of climate change on our brains are a public health crisis that has gone largely unreported. Based on six years of research, award-winning journalist and trained neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern synthesizes the emerging neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics of climate change and brain health. A masterpiece of deeply reported, superb literary journalism, this book shows readers how a changing environment is changing us, today, from the inside out. Aldern calls it the weight of nature. Newly named mental conditions include: climate grief, ecoanxiety, environmental melancholia, pre-traumatic stress disorder. High-schoolers are preparing for a chaotic climate with the same combination of urgency, fear, and resignation they reserve for active-shooter drills. But mostly, as Aldern richly details, we don't realize what global warming is doing to our brains. More heat means it is harder to think straight and solve problems. It influences serotonin release, which in turn increases the chance of impulsive violence. Air pollution from wildfires and smokestacks affects everything from sleeplessness to baseball umpires' error rates. Immigration judges are more likely to reject asylum applications on hotter days. And these kinds of effects are not easily medicated, since certain drugs we might look to just aren't as effective at higher temperatures. Heatwaves and hurricanes can wear on memory, language, and pain systems. Wildfires seed PTSD. And climate-fueled ecosystem changes extend the reach of brain-disease carriers like the mosquitos of cerebral-malaria fame, brain-eating amoebae, and the bats that brought us the mental fog of long Covid. From farms in the San Joaquin Valley and public schools across the US to communities in Norway's arctic, Micronesian islands, and the French Alps, this is a disturbing, unprecedented portrait of a global crisis we thought we understood"--

Subjects: Informational works.; Human beings; Climatology.; Climatic changes; Brain;

Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 10

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