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The double dangerous book for boys [sound recording] / by Iggulden, Conn,author.(CARDINAL)356454; Heyborne, Kirby,narrator.(CARDINAL)547280; Iggulden, Arthur,author.(CARDINAL)827761; Iggulden, Cameron,author.(CARDINAL)827758;

Read by Kirby Heyborne.A guide for males of any age provides instructions for engaging in a wide range of classic boyhood projects and activities, from tying knots, making an igloo, and playing chess to playing cards, solving the Rubik's Cube, and making coffee.

Subjects: Sound recordings.; Trivia and miscellanea.; Amusements; Amusements; Boys; Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.; Recreation; Recreation;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The footprints of God / by Iles, Greg.(CARDINAL)373501;

In the heart of North Carolina's Research Triangle stands a corporate laboratory much like the others nearby. But behind its walls, America's top scientists work around the clock to attain the holy grail of the twenty-first century -- a supercomputer that surpasses the power of the human mind. Appointed by the president as ethicist to Project Trinity, Dr. David Tennant finds himself in a pressure cooker of groundbreaking science and colossal ambition. When his friend and fellow scientist is murdered, David discovers that the genius who runs Project Trinity was responsible and that his own life is in danger. Unable to reach the president, and afraid to trust his colleagues, David turns to Rachel Weiss, the psychiatrist probing the nightmares that have plagued him during his work at Trinity. Rachel is skeptical of David's fears, but when an assassin strikes, the two doctors must flee for their lives. Pursued across the globe by ruthless National Security Agency operatives, David and Rachel struggle to piece together the truth behind Project Trinity and the enormous power it could unleash upon the world. As constant danger deepens their intimacy, Rachel realizes the key to Trinity lies buried in David's disturbed mind. But Trinity's clock is ticking... Mankind is being held hostage by a machine that cannot be destroyed. Its only hope -- a terrifying chess game between David and the Trinity computer, with the cities of the world as pawns. But what are the rules? How human is the machine? Can one man and woman change the course of history? Man's future hangs in the balance, and the price of failure is extinction. Considered one of the most insightful and ingenious of the new generation of bestselling authors, Greg Iles has written a thriller that maps the fascinating territory where science and spirit clash in a battle for the future of humanity. Stunning in its scope, The Footprints of God is a brilliant realization of its author's talent.

Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Information technology; Medical ethics; Technological innovations;

Available copies: 71 / Total copies: 81

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Apple computing for seniors in easy steps : covers OS X Yosemite (10.10) and iOS 8 / by Vandome, Nick,author.(CARDINAL)350439;

Includes index."Apple Computing for Seniors in Easy Steps" begins with an overview of Mac computers, covering different types of desktops and laptops available and gives a tour around them so that the reader quickly feels confident about using them. It also covers customizing the desktop and takes an in-depth look at the latest Mac operating system, 10.9, detailing everything from working with programs to organizing folders and files. "Apple Computing for Seniors in Easy Steps" shows how to work with photos, videos, and music, using the popular iLife suite of programs. It also deals with the iPod, iPhone, and the new iPad and helps the reader with hassle-free use of the Internet and email. The final chapters of the book cover issues such as setting up a wireless network and also ensuring that the computer stays secure and virus free. This new edition shows how to put the fun back into computing experiences -- even Seniors can now enjoy the sleek and stylish world of Apple Macs.

Subjects: Macintosh (Computer); Computer science.; Computers and older people.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2

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Hawk / by Kendig, Ronie,author.(CARDINAL)356017;

Raptor's communications expert, Staff Sergeant Brian "Hawk" Bledsoe, is struggling with his inner demons, leaving him on the verge of an "other than honorable" discharge. Plagued with corrupted intel, Raptor team continues to track down the terrorist playing chess with their lives. Afghan pilot Fekiria Haidary is devastated when a systems glitch on her aircraft forces a weapons launch on a safe target. And when the deadly bombing separates Hawk from the team, he must make an impossible choice: save his brothers-in-arms, or save the woman and children depending on him to survive a brutal snowstorm.

Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Christian fiction.; Romance fiction.; Fiction.; National security; Cyber intelligence (Computer security); Missionaries;

Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7

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Duelling idiots and other probability puzzlers / by Nahin, Paul J.(CARDINAL)765163;

Includes bibliographical references and index."In this collection of twenty-one puzzles, Paul Nahin challenges us to think creatively about the laws of probability as they apply in playful, sometimes deceptive, ways to a fascinating array of speculative situations. Games of Russian roulette, problems involving the accumulation of insects on flypaper, and strategies for determining the odds of the underdog winning the World Series all reveal intriguing dimensions to the workings of probability. Over the years, Nahin, a veteran writer and teacher of the subject, has collected these and other favorite puzzles designed to instruct and entertain math enthusiasts of all backgrounds." "Written in an informal way and containing a plethora of interesting historical material, Duelling Idiots is ideal for those who are fascinated by mathematics and the role it plays in everyday life and in our imaginations."--Jacket.

Subjects: Problems and exercises.; Probabilities;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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In the shuffle by Findaway World, LLC. (CARDINAL)345268; Playaway Products, LLC,issuing body.(CARDINAL)868990;

3in1 old skool games -- Astraware crosswords, volume 51 -- Bricks blitz -- Chess and mate -- Cribbage with grandpas -- Crossy poker : 5x5 card fight -- Majong joy -- Smash ping pong -- Solitaire mystery stolen power -- Switch color."Do you have what it takes to be the champion? These just-for-fun apps are a great way to unwind, relieve stress, challenge your skills, and play against your own high scores."--Teens.

Subjects: Educational games.; Educational games. ; Games; Computer games.; Mobile apps. ;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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Seven games : a human history / by Roeder, Oliver,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-296) and index.Prologue -- Introduction -- Checkers -- Chess -- Go -- Backgammon -- Poker -- Scrabble -- Bridge -- Epilogue."A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why-and how-we play them. Checkers, Backgammon, Chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and Bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the behavioral design that make them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai the Master, the last Go champion of Imperial Japan, defending tradition against "modern rationalism"; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the Space Shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games-and for us. Funny, fascinating and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human"--

Subjects: Board games; Card games; Word games;

Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6

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The point of it all : a lifetime of great loves and endeavors / by Krauthammer, Charles,1950-2018,author.(CARDINAL)746290; Krauthammer, Daniel,1985-editor.(CARDINAL)783398;

PART I: WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN. 1: Life well lived. Reveries of a newborn father ; Irving Kristol : a great good man ; Ronald Reagan : he could see for miles ; Thomas Jefferson : the sublime oxymoron ; Thank you, Isaiah Berlin ; John Paul II : the power of faith ; George Weidenfeld : Syrian Christians and the English Jew ; Meg Greenfield : my editor, my friend -- 2: Customs and culture. Why I love Australia ; Rampway to heaven ; Junk rights ; Genius, insanity, innocence ; Two Cromwells : separate and independent realities ; Parenthesis to history ; The Cold War memorials -- 3: Contests. Suffering a relapse, and loving it ; The tyranny of chess ; Revenge, American-style ; Man vs. computer : still a match ; The greatness gap ; Why do they even play the game? ; Jim Dickson's triumph -- 4: Cosmos. In sorrow and glory we find our common humanity ; Front-page physics : why the news from beyond is beyond us ; What Sputnik launched ; Pluto and us ; Space : the visionaries take over ; Redeeming Columbia -- 5: The doctor is in. A doctor's duty ; Why doctors quit ; Sick, tired and not taking it anymore ; The twilight of psychotherapy ; They die with their rights on -- 6: Matters of life and death. Five lives vs. one principle ; Stem cells : mounting the slippery steps ; The abortion debate : just words ; The price of fetal parts ; What to do for little Charlie Gard -- PART II: MAN AND SOCIETY. 7: Look outward. Three pieces of sage advice -- 8: Against the grain. Apocalypse, with and without God ; When modern medicine fails ; The myth of "settled science" ; Thought police on patrol -- 9: The too-examined life. Suicide ad absurdum ; Holiday : living on a return ticket ; Shakespeare, ruined ; Illusions of self-love -- 10: Out of many, one. Assimilation nation ; The tribalization of America ; Counting by race ; Redskins and reason ; Neither ennobling nor degrading ; On lowering the flag -- 11: Church and state. Civil religion--and no religion ; Just leave Christmas alone ; Religion as taste -- PART III: POLITICS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. 12: The two last tribes of Israel. The miracle, at 60 ; The Holocaust and Jewish identity ; Demystifying Judaism ; How to fight academic bigotry ; Do we really mean "Never again"? -- 13: Keeping the world at bay. How to deal with countries gone mad ; The Iranian "moderate" ; Middle East peace and the great Muslim civil war ; The Bush legacy ; Iraq, abandoned ; The climate pact swindle ; Russia rising ; To die for Estonia? ; Trump and the "Madman Theory" -- 14: Democracy and its discontents. In defense of fanatics ; The death penalty and the Constitution ; Finally getting it right on affirmative action ; The right-to-work dilemma ; Brexit : sovereign kingdom or Little England? ; Trump derangement syndrome : you can't govern by id ; Revolt of the attorneys general ; American democracy : not so decadent after all -- 15: On liberty. Constitutions, conservatism and the genius of the Founders ; The meaning of human rights -- PART IV: COMPETING VISIONS : America's role and the course of world history. 16: Reluctant colossus. When to intervene ; The arrow of history ; Trump's foreign policy revolution -- 17: The end of "the end of history". After a mere 25 years, the triumph of the West is over ; The coming disillusionment of liberated Europe ; The authoritarian temptation -- PART V: SPEAKING IN THE FIRST PERSON. 18: A life without regrets. An anniversary of sorts ; Choosing a life ; A statement of principle ; Beauty and soul ; A note to readers ; Eulogy / by Daniel Krauthammer.Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is an intimate collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, political and philosophical-including never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future of global democracy-this is the most profound book yet by the legendary writer and thinker. For longtime readers and newcomers alike, The Point of It All is a timely and much needed demonstration of what it means to cut through the noise of petty politics with clarity, integrity and intellectual fortitude. Edited and with an introduction by the columnist's son, Daniel Krauthammer, the book is a reminder of what made Charles Krauthammer the most celebrated American columnist and political thinker of his generation, a look at the man behind the words, and a lasting testament to his belief that anyone with an open and honest mind can grapple deeply with the most urgent questions in politics and life.

Subjects: Essays.; Krauthammer, Charles, 1950-2018.; Political science.; Popular culture;

Available copies: 40 / Total copies: 48

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Off the charts : the hidden lives and lessons of American child prodigies / by Hulbert, Ann,author.(CARDINAL)364323;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-352) and index.Part I: Nature vs. nurture. The wonder boys of Harvard ; "A very free child" -- Part II: Daughters and dreams. "A renaissance of creative genius in girlhood" ; Performance pressures -- Part III: Rebels with causes. Bobby Fischer's battles ; The programmers -- Part IV: Miracles and strivers. The mystery of savant syndrome ; Tiger parents, super children."From the author of the widely praised Raising America, an eye-opening exploration of child genius and the parental and societal aspirations that accompany it. Off the Charts casts Americas current obsession with early high achievement in a new light, uncovering its history and offering insights into our ever less playful, increasingly purposeful ethos of childhood. Ann Hulbert examines in depth the lives of sixteen children whose extraordinary accomplishments over the course of a century raised hopes about untapped human potential and questions about how best to nurture it. She probes the changing role of parents and teachers, as well as of psychologists and a curious press. Above all, she delves into the feelings of the prodigies themselves, whose talents inspire ambitions and fears particularly relevant to their historical moment. The moving stories focus in on children who range from the well known--including Norbert Wiener, the future father of cybernetics; the movie superstar Shirley Temple; and the chess champion Bobby Fischer--to the overlooked, among them the African American pianist and composer Philippa Schuyler and two girl authors of the 1920s. Math prodigies, young computer pioneers, and autistic 'prodigious savants' stand out as both models and mold-breakers in an increasingly meritocratic country. Off the Charts also offers an inside look at Lewis Terman's study of high-IQ children, the SAT-based talent search begun decades later at Johns Hopkins, and Amy Chua's Tiger Mother manifesto. In this revelatory book, it is the prodigies who deliver the most valuable messages for an era when parents worry about pushing too hard or too little and experts warn about wasting the brilliant young talents the nation needs."

Subjects: Gifted children;

Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 16

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Boys who rocked the world : heroes from King Tut to Bruce Lee / by McCann, Michelle Roehm,1968-(CARDINAL)642928; McCann, Michelle Roehm,1968-(CARDINAL)642928; Beyond Words Publishing.(CARDINAL)663424;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and filmography (page 247).King Tutankhamun : Pharaoh -- Galileo Galilei : inventor and physicist -- Blaise Pascal : mathematician, scientist, and philosopher -- Kangxi : Emperor -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : composer -- John Quincy Adams : President, politician, and abolitionist -- Louis Braille : teacher and inventor -- Los Niños Héroes : soldiers -- Crazy Horse : warrior and leader -- Okita Soji : swordsman -- Thomas Alva Edison : inventor -- Chester Greenwood : inventor -- George Washington Carver : botanist -- Matthew Alexander Henson : explorer -- Pablo Picasso : artist -- Albert Einstein : physicist -- José Raúl Capablanca : chess player -- Salvatore Ferragamo : shoe designer -- Jesse Owens : athlete -- Nelson Mandela : activist -- Stan Lee : writer and illustrator -- Vidal Sassoon : hair stylist -- Mau Piailug : explorer -- The Dalai Lama : spiritual and political leader -- Elvis Presley : King of rock 'n' roll -- Bruce Lee : martial artist and actor -- Pelé : athlete -- Bob Dylan : singer -- Chico Mendes : activist -- Stephen King : writer -- Stevie Wonder : singer -- Matt Groening : cartoonist -- Yo-Yo Ma : cellist -- Bill Gates : software developer -- Steve Jobs : computer programmer and inventor -- Cameron Crowe : journalist and movie director -- Sherman Alexie : writer -- Will Smith : actor -- Tony Hawk : athlete -- Hrithik Roshan : actor -- The Black Eyed Peas : musicians -- Mark Zuckerberg : software developer -- Shaun White : athlete -- William Kamkwamba : inventor and engineer -- Om Prakash Gurjar : activist -- The Billy Elliot Boys : dancers.Short profiles of famous men throughout history, from King Tut to Crazy Horse to Stan Lee to Shaun White.008-012.1090LAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Biographies.; Boys; Heroes; Men; Boys; Heroes; Men; Boys; Heroes; Men; Boys.; Men.;

Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7

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