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The 21st-century economy : a beginner's guide : with 101 easy-to-learn tools for surviving and thriving in the new global marketplace / by Epping, Randy Charles.(CARDINAL)367517;

With recent economic turmoil monopolizing the headlines, it has become more important than ever to understand fundamental economic terms and concepts.

Subjects: International finance.; Economic history; Globalization.; International trade.;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4

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Light & shade : conversations with Jimmy Page / by Tolinski, Brad.(CARDINAL)536912; Page, Jimmy.(CARDINAL)205284;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-298)."There was a fight almost every time we performed" -- "I wanted to play loud" ; A conversation with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck -- "I took full advantage of them..." ; The Yardbirds according to Chris Dreja -- "I wanted artistic control in a vise grip" ; A conversation with John Paul Jones -- "Fuck the sixties! We're going to chart the new decade" ; A conversation with Jimmy Page and Jack White -- "They told us we were committing professional suicide" -- "The tours were exercises in pure hedonism" -- "It was my life -- that fusion of magick and music" ; A conversation with Led Zeppelin publicist Danny Goldberg ; Top ten Led Zeppelin guitar moments -- "I was knocked sideways" ; A conversation with Bad Company and Firm vocalist Paul Rodgers -- "I still had a lot to offer and say musically" ; An inventory of Jimmy Page's primary guitars, amps, and effects -- "We're older and wiser" ; A conversation with men's fashion designer John Varvatos -- The astrology of Jimmy Page.Draws on twenty years of personal interviews to cover Page's early work with such artists as Tom Jones and Eric Clapton, the creative years of Led Zeppelin, and his post-Zeppelin relationships with Robert Plant and John Paul Jones.

Subjects: Biographies.; Interviews.; Page, Jimmy; Led Zeppelin (Musical group); Rock musicians;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5

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Autistic distress / by Mather, Charis,1999-author.(CARDINAL)863370;

"Sometimes a person with autism might become so overwhelmed they have a hard time controlling themselves. Uh-oh, it's an emergency! Prepare young readers to empathetically understand and care for a friend with autism who is in distress. Learn what's happening, how to be a helper, and ways to keep your friend safe and calm. A bright design and carefully crafted text takes fear out of emergencies to make them easier to understand"--Grades 2-3Ages 6-8620LAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Autism; Autistic people; Medical emergencies;

Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13

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Eagle Station : a novel / by Brown, Dale,1956-author.(CARDINAL)351669;

"Because its enemies never stop trying to undermine the United States' security, the men and women who serve to protect America must always be vigilant. Few know this better than warriors Brad McLanahan and Nadia Rozek. Newly married, the two are just beginning to settle into their new life together when they are called back into action. Though the Russians were badly defeated by Brad and the Iron Wolf Squadron in their previous bid for world dominance, they are back and doubling down on their quest for control of outer space. In addition to their cutting-edge weaponry, they have a formidable new ally: China's energetic and ruthless leader, President Li Jun. To protect America and the rest of the free world from the Russians and the Chinese, the Americans plan to mine the moon's helium-3 resources, which will allow them to fully exploit the revolutionary fusion power technology Brad and his team captured from the Russians aboard the Mars One weapons platform. But Leonov and Li have devised a daring plan of their own. They are building a joint secret base on the moon's far side fortified with a powerful Russian plasma rail gun that can destroy any spacecraft entering lunar orbit. If the heavily armed base becomes operational, it will give America's enemies control over the world's economic and military future. As this latest skirmish in the war for space accelerates, Brad, Nadia, and their compatriots in the Space Force must use their cunning and skill--and America's own high-tech weaponry - to derail the Sino-Russian alliance and destroy their lunar site before it's too late for the U.S. and the entire world." --

Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Space weapons; Special operations (Military science); Special forces (Military science); Terrorism; Space stations; National security;

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Taking Manhattan [audio-enabled device] : the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America / by Shorto, Russell,author,narrator.(CARDINAL)353390; Playaway Digital Audio,issuing body.(CARDINAL)565887; Playaway Products, LLC,issuing body.(CARDINAL)868990;

Read by Russell Shorto.Sound files.The thrilling narrative of how New York came to be, by the author of the beloved classic The Island at the Center of the World. In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he began parleying with Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch leader on Manhattan. Bristling with vibrant characters, Taking Manhattan reveals the founding of New York to be an invention: the result not of an English military takeover but of clever negotiations that led to a fusion of the multiethnic capitalistic society the Dutch had pioneered to the power of the rising English empire. But the birth of what might be termed the first modern city is also a story of the brutal dispossession of Native Americans and of the roots of American slavery. Taking Manhattan shows how the paradox of New York's origins boundless opportunity coupled with subjugation and displacement-reflect America's promise and failure to this day. Russell Shorto, whose work has been described as "astonishing" (New York Times) and "revelatory" (New York magazine), has once again mined newly translated sources to offer a vibrant tale and a fresh and trenchant argument about American beginnings.Adult.Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

Subjects: Audiobooks.; Informational works.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Influx / by Suarez, Daniel,1964-(CARDINAL)493754;

Includes bibliographical references.What if our civilization is more advanced than we know? Are smartphones really humanity's most significant innovation since the moon landings? Or can something else explain why the bold visions of the twentieth century - fusion power, genetic enhancements, artificial intelligence, cures for common diseases, extended human life, and a host of other world-changing advances - have remained beyond our grasp? Why has the high-tech future that seemed imminent in the 1960s failed to arrive? Perhaps it did arrive... but only for a select few. Particle physicist Jon Grady is ecstatic when his team achieves what they've been working toward for years: a device that can reflect gravity. Their research will revolutionize the field of physics - the crowning achievement of Grady's career. He expects widespread acclaim for his entire team. The Nobel Prize. Instead, his lab is locked down by a shadowy organization whose mission is tp prevent at all costs the social the social upheaval sudden technological advances bring. This Bureau of Technology Control (BTC) uses the advanced technologies they have harvested over teh decades to fulfill their mission. They are living in our future. Presented with the opportunity to join the BTC and improve his own technology in secret, Grady resists and is instead thrown into a nightmarish high-tech prison built to hold rebellious geniuses like himself. With so many great intellects confined together, can Grady and his fellow prisoners conceive of a way to usher humanity out of its artificial dark age? And can they hope to defeat an enemy who wields a technological advantage half a century in the making? -- Jacket flap.

Subjects: Science fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Discoveries in science; Extremists; Gravitational waves; Physicists; Space and time;

Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13

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The age of insight : the quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain : from Vienna 1900 to the present / by Kandel, Eric R.(CARDINAL)508313;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-574) and index.A psychoanalytic psychology and art of unconscious emotion -- An inward turn : Vienna 1900 -- Exploring the truths hidden beneath the surface : origins of a scientific medicine -- Viennese artists, writers, and scientists meet in the Zuckerkandl Salon -- Exploring the brain beneath the skull : origins of a scientific psychiatry -- Exploring mind together with the brain : the development of a brain-based psychology -- Exploring mind apart from the brain : origins of a dynamic psychology -- Searching for inner meaning in literature -- The depiction of modern women's sexuality in art -- The depiction of the psyche in art -- The fusion of eroticism, aggression, and anxiety in art -- A cognitive psychology of visual perception and emotional response to art -- Discovering the beholder's share -- Observation is also invention : the brain as a creativity machine -- The emergence of twentieth-century painting -- Biology of the beholder's visual response to art -- The brain's processing of visual images -- Deconstruction of the visual image: the building blocks of form perception -- Reconstruction of the world we see : vision is information processing -- High-level vision and the brain's perception of face, hands, and body -- Top-down processing of information : using memory to find meaning -- The deconstruction of emotion : the search for emotional primitives -- The artistic depiction of emotion through the face, hands, body, and color -- Unconscious emotions, conscious feelings, and their bodily expression -- Biology of the beholder's emotional response to art -- Top-down control of cognitive emotional information -- The biological response to beauty and ugliness in art -- The beholder's share : entering the private theater of another's mind -- The biology of the beholder's share : modeling other people's minds -- How the brain regulates emotion and empathy -- An evolving dialogue between visual art and science -- Artistic universals and the Austrian expressionists -- The creative brain -- The cognitive unconscious and the creative brain -- Brain circuits for creativity -- Talent, creativity, and brain development -- Knowing ourselves : the new dialogue between art and science.

Subjects: Subconsciousness.; Perception.; Subconsciousness in art.;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6

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Fallout : nuclear bribes, Russian spies, and the Washington lies that enriched the Clinton and Biden dynasties / by Solomon, John,author.(CARDINAL)400161; Bruner, Seamus,author.; Schweizer, Peter,1964-writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)767704;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-328) and index.Foreword -- Chapter 1: Putin's nuclear conquest: the uncanny origins of Trump's Impeachment -- Chapter 2: Putin and the oligarchs: how Putin used the Soviet playbook and weaponized energy deals -- Chapter 3: Putin's coldest war: the strategic quest for global nuclear dominance -- Chapter 4: Obama's nuclear cronies: how a young anti-nuclear activist grew up to become a pro-nuclear president -- Chapter 5: Clinton cash (Part II): From Kazakhstan to Russia, with love and money -- Chapter 6: Putin and the pastor: a nuclear bribery plot exposed -- Chapter 7: The Gatekeepers of CFIUS: how Clinton turned a national security review into a tollbooth (and how Obama allowed It) -- Chapter 8: Reset cracks and Skolkovo hacks: the Russian-Silicon Valley tech transfer -- Chapter 9: The Ukraine boomerang: Obama's Russia failures unleash new chaos and cronyism in Ukraine -- Chapter 10: Uranium one, spygate, and impeachment: what they portend for the future -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgments."An exhaustively researched book that reads like an investigative thriller, Fallout reveals how Obama's "Russian Reset" led to corruption, scandal, and a desperate bid to impeach Donald Trump. In 2015, a major story broke exposing Hillary Clinton's role in approving the sale of American uranium assets to the Russian state nuclear agency, Rosatom. Not only did the sale of Uranium One put 20 percent of America's domestic uranium supply under the control of Vladimir Putin, there was also evidence that the Clintons themselves had hugely profited from the deal. When presidential candidate Donald Trump made Uranium One the centerpiece of his "Crooked Hillary" attacks, the Clinton team feared its potential to damage Hillary's campaign. Others in the Obama-Biden camp worried that if elected, Trump would expose their role in selling out America's security to Putin. Their desperate need to neutralize the issue led them to launch an unprecedented investigation into the Trump campaign's purported ties to Russia. The infamous Steele dossier, produced by Clinton-connected Fusion GPS, sparked an investigation under FBI Director James Comey. Instead of ending after the election, the investigation grew bigger, eventually leading to Comey's firing and the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. When Mueller failed to find grounds for impeachment, Democrats seized on an ambiguous phone call with the Ukrainian president as a pretext to remove Trump from office. This gambit blew up in their faces when it exposed the secrets that Democrats tried hard to keep buried. An indispensable guide to the hidden background of recent events, Fallout shows how Putin's bid for nuclear dominance produced a series of political scandals that ultimately posed one of the greatest threats to our democracy in modern American history."--

Subjects: Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Clinton, Hillary Rodham.; Obama, Barack.; Political corruption; Bribery; Nuclear weapons; Espionage, Russian.;

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Renewable energy : sources and methods / by Maczulak, Anne E.(Anne Elizabeth),1954-(CARDINAL)763099;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-198) and index.Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Earth's Energy Sources -- World's appetite for energy -- Case Study: Western energy crisis, 2000-2001 -- Renewable or nonrenewable -- Oil -- Sun's energy stored in the earth -- Carbon economics -- Our renewable energy resources -- Smart energy grids -- Social aspects of alternative energy -- Energy programs in the global community -- US House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment -- Conclusion -- 2: Recycling -- Grassroots history of recycling -- How recycling saves energy -- Industrial raw materials from waste -- Recycled materials chemistry -- High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) -- Minerals and metals -- Case Study: Recycling during World War II -- Rubber recycling -- Conclusion -- 3: Gasoline Alternative Vehicles -- Evolution of alternative vehicles -- Biofuels -- Case Study: Toyota's Prius -- Synthetic fuels -- Battery power -- Combustion -- Fuel cell technology -- Nuclear fission and fusion -- Natural gas fuels -- Next generation hybrids -- Conclusion -- 4: Biorefineries -- Today's refinery industry -- Pipelines -- US Department of Energy -- Case Study: Alaska's oil economy -- Biorefining steps -- Developing the biorefining industry -- Conclusion -- 5: Innovations In Clean Energy -- Alternative energy emerging -- Wind, wave, and tidal power -- Solar power -- Solar films -- Hydropower and geothermal energy -- Nuclear energy -- Direct carbon conversion -- Fuel cells -- Conclusion -- 6: Green Building Design -- Building green comes of age -- Controlling energy and heat flows -- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) -- Cooling and ventilation -- Insulation -- Daylighting -- Windows technology -- Water conservation -- Case Study: Four Horizons House, Australia -- Managing waste streams -- Off the energy grid -- Conclusion -- 7: Energy From Solid Biomass -- Earth's biomass -- Types of biomass -- Phosphate bond -- Conversion to energy and fuels -- Energy value of garbage -- Biomass economy -- Case Study: Chicago climate exchange -- Conclusion -- 8: Future Needs -- Appendixes -- Glossary -- Further resources -- Index.Synopsis: Green Technology is an eight-volume set that examines the relationship between human activities and their sometimes harmful consequences for the environment and explores new methods of repairing and restoring the Earth. Approaching environmental issues confronting society from a technological perspective has spawned significant controversy, and the books in this set present all sides of the debate. Designed to complement science curricula, the set also covers relevant history and new green technologies and innovations that will contribute to the field in the future. Renewable Energy: Sources and Methods examines the current technologies in renewable energy, a critical subject given that the world increases its energy consumption between 1 and 3 percent each year. Considering the current rate of energy consumption and the consequences of continuing at this rate, the book explains how the main conventional sources of energy-including coal, oil, and gas-affect economies worldwide. The book also focuses on the remarkable diversity of ideas and innovations in the field of alternative energy. Sidebars, figures, and case studies enhance fundamental concepts and examine urgent issues related to the future of the environment. The volume includes information on: alternative vehicles; biomass; the biorefining industry; "clean" energy; converting solid waste to energy; Earth's energy sources; green building design and construction; recycling; water conservation; and worldwide energy programs. The book contains more than 40 color photographs and line illustrations, five appendixes, a glossary, a detailed list of print and Internet resources, and an index. Green Technology is essential for general readers who seek information on the important issues that affect the environment worldwide.

Subjects: Renewable energy sources;

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The young skin diet : science-based recipes & treatments to reveal your best skin ever / by Lee, Michelle(Cookbook writer)(CARDINAL)620968;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-267) and index.

Subjects: Skin; Skin;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3

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