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- Inky the octopus [audio-enabled device] by Guendelsberger, Erin,author.(CARDINAL)628907; Leonard, David,1979-illustrator.(CARDINAL)493708; Mayers, Chris(Narrator),narrator.(CARDINAL)834335;
Includes bibliographical references.Out of this tank, I must be free. I must explore the open sea! Follow Inky the octopus as he escapes from the National Aquarium of New Zealand to the ocean! Based on a true story, Inky the Octopus chronicles the adventure that the real-life Inky might have taken on his escape to freedom in the open ocean!5-8K-3- Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Fiction.; National Aquarium of New Zealand; Aquariums; Captive marine animals; Captive marine invertebrates; Marine aquarium animals; Octopuses;
- Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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- Zoology : the secret world of animals. by DK Publishing, Inc.(CARDINAL)317714; Smithsonian Institution.(CARDINAL)141176;
"Explore the everyday miracle of the animal kingdom. With spectacular photography and clear explanations, Zoology reveals the incredible anatomy, behavior, and beauty of every type of creature, from hair to scale, whisker to tail." -- back cover.The animal kingdom -- What is an animal? -- Evolution -- Types of animals -- Beetle diversity -- Fish and amphibians -- Reptiles and birds -- Mammals -- Prehistoric paintings -- Shape and size -- Symmetry and asymmetry -- Forming colonies -- Radial symmetry -- Symmetry in motion -- The darwinists -- Comb jellies -- Bodies with simple heads -- Sexual differences -- The renaissance eye -- Segmented bodies -- Vertebrate bodies -- Frog body form -- Shape shifters -- Large and small -- Fantasy beasts -- Tall animals -- Skeletons -- Communal skeletons -- Water skeletons -- External skeletons -- Exoskeletons on land -- Chalky skeletons -- Internal skeletons -- Aboriginal insights -- Vertebrate skeletons -- Vertebrate shells -- Bird skeletons -- Cheetah -- Mammal horns -- Deer antlers -- Skin, coats, and armor -- Permeable skin -- Getting oxygen -- Toxic skin -- Skin color -- Forming a shell -- Mollusk shells -- Vertebrate scales -- Reptile skin -- Advertisement colors -- In the mughal courts -- Frills and dewlaps -- Weapons and fighting -- Blending in -- Lichen katydid -- Feathers -- Flight feathers -- Display plumage -- Seasonal protection -- Mammal fur -- Expressionist nature -- Skin glands -- Horns from skin -- Armored skin -- Senses -- Sensitive antennae -- Sensory bristles -- Small world -- Sensory whiskers -- Sensing under water -- Tasting the air -- Sensing heat -- Electrical sense -- Detecting light -- Pupil shapes -- Compound eyes -- Color vision -- Seeing depth -- Common kingfisher -- Scent detection -- Smell in birds -- Song birds -- Smell in mammals -- How animals hear -- Mammal ears -- Listening for echoes -- Common dolphin -- Mouths and jaws -- Filter feeding -- Christmas tree worms -- Invertebrate jaws -- Injecting venom -- Vertebrate jaws -- Bird bills -- Bird bill shapes -- Art of the ornithologist -- Carnivore teeth -- Giant panda -- Eating plants -- Flexible faces -- Legs, arms, tentacles, and tails -- Tube feet -- Jointed legs -- Vertebrate limbs -- Vertebrate claws -- Tiger -- Sticky feet -- Raptor feet -- Climbing and perching -- Mammal hooves -- Alpine ibex -- Arthropod pincers -- Artists of the floating world -- swinging through tree -- Primate hands -- Orangutan -- Octopus arms -- Stinging tentacles -- Prehensile tails -- Pintailed whydah -- Fins, flippers, and paddles -- Nekton and plankton -- Blue dragon sea slug -- How fish swim -- Underwater wings -- Fish fins -- Swimming with the dorsal fin -- Four-winged flying fish -- Venomous spines -- Empire of abundance -- Walking on the seabed -- Returning to water -- Tail flukes -- Wings and parachutes -- Insect flight -- Scaly wings -- Gliding and parachuting -- How birds fly -- Lammergeier -- Bird wings -- Emperor penguin -- Hovering -- Egyptian birdlife -- Wings of skin -- Eggs and Offspring -- Making eggs -- Fertilization -- Parental devotion -- Polar bear -- Shelled eggs -- Bird eggs -- Marsupial pouches -- From larva to adult -- Amphibian metamorphosis -- Reaching maturity -- Classification -- Glossary.- Subjects: Illustrated works.; Zoology; Animals;
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- How to win friends and influence fungi : collected quirks of science, tech, engineering, and math from Nerd Nite / by Balakrishnan, Chris,editor.(CARDINAL)883979; Wasowski, Matt,editor.(CARDINAL)883980; Orr, Kristen,illustrator.(CARDINAL)883981;
Introduction -- Creature features. Camel spiders: the rumors of my size have been greatly exaggerated ; Military marine mammals: dolphins so smart they should give their own Nerd Nite presentation ; Sex catapults! ; Cephalopods: the impossibly awesome invertebrates ; Stomatopods: why is my thumb bleeding and my mind blown? ; Finding nemo('s sex): sex change and gender roles in anemonefishes -- Mmm...brains. It's not you, it's misophonia ; Sex, drugs, and happiness ; Don't trust your brain: why foreign accents are all in your head ; Lessons from the Oregon trail ; Synesthesia: hearing colors and tasting sounds ; Brain on a chip: the ethics of brain experimentation ; How we become disgusting (some more than others) -- Bodily fluids. To boldly go: dealing with poop and pee in space ; Milk! you'll see it everywhere once you know what to look for ; Triclosan: it's not the bacteria but the soap that's going to kill you! ; Lost: bladder control. reward for safe return. ; Microbes can save you, kill you, or just give you the poops ; Runoff: what is it and why even notice it? -- Doing it. Hot or not? how to be a perfect 10; or, how to manipulate perceptions of physical attractiveness ; Dating tips from the animal kingdom: what to wear and how to flaunt it ; Dating as a data nerd ; 10 things you didn't know about sex...education ; Going ape for pansexual primates ; Smells and the microbiome: are microbes controlling your sex life? -- Health and (un)wellness. Maggot therapy; or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bugs ; Happy 13th birthday, Nerd Nite! now get yourself to an adolescent medicine doctor ; What your DNA says about you ; The science of the hangover ; You and your microbiome: say hello to your little friends ; Penis or vagina? ‘tain’t that simple! ; The modern study of genetics is full of twists and turns -- Pathogens and parasites. Everything you always wanted to know about birds ; Pigeons, cannibals, and vaginas: the story of my favorite parasite ; What birds can teach us about the impending zombie apocalypse ; Zombies are real and you might be one ; Hacking the antiviral immune response ; Human parasites (no, not your mooching off your roommate) -- Death and taxes (but really, just death). Monarch the bear: a tale of tycoons, taxidermy, and the California flag ; How to not destroy ourselves: lessons from sci-fi ; Mass extinction ; How and why cancer happens; or, if you live long enough you’re going to die ; Algae apocalypse: the most important slime -- Space, the big and the beautiful. Bullshit in space: an astronomical adventure through cosmic misinformation ; Preparation a: our relief against severe assteroids ; Life under the ice of Europa ; Artificial gravity in science fiction ; Sky rockets in flight, asteroids delight: asteroid mining for science, profit, and fun! ; Better than NASA: Canada’s sample of an asteroid; or, the untold story of the Tagish lake meteorite ; The telescope that blew everyone’s mind…part two! -- Tech (high and low). "They’re putting acid in our food!": the everyman’s guide to thwarting fear and understanding GMOs ; What I learned about dating apps (generally) after I spent five f*cking years studying them for a PhD ; Adventures in human-powered flight ; What does Google see? ; Becoming a cyborg through disability: building prosthetic limbs ; Machine learning for a free and open internet ; How to win friends and influence bacteria ; Why nuclear fusion would be awesome—if we get it to work -- Math is fun. A tea test tempest ; The mathematics of gossip ; From Bach to Tool: the secret math behind music theory ; Getting to know infinity ; Math for a better city ; A little "bit" of cryptography -- Careers. Veterinary confidential ; Chindogu: the Japanese art of unuseless inventions ; Caskets, corpses, and biers, oh my!: a brief look at death care and the history and science of embalming in the US ; Wildlife detectives: the science and stories of "animal CSI" in investigating and solving wildlife crime ; Cut it off!: a civil war amputation ; Fermentation: a cultural story ; Fire: of flames and friendship -- Our beloved Nerd Nite bosses."In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, yet fascinating STEM topics. For 20 years, Nerd Nite has delivered to live audiences around the world, the most interesting, fun, and informative presentations about science, history, the arts, pop culture, you name it. There hasn't been a rabbit hole that their army of presenters hasn't been afraid to explore. Finally, after countless requests to bring Nerd Nite to more fans across the globe, co-founders and college pals Matt Wasowski and Chris Balakrishnan are bringing readers the quirky and accessible science content that they crave in book form, focused on STEM and paired with detailed illustrations that make the content pop. The resulting range of topics is quirky and vast, from kinky, spring-loaded spiders to the Webb telescope's influence on movie special effects. Hilariously named after Dale Carnegie's iconic book, How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi features narratives, bursts, and infographics on all things STEM from scientists around the world. Chapters are sure to make you laugh-out-loud, with titles such as "The Science of the Hangover," "What Birds Can Teach Us About the Impending Zombie Apocalypse," and "Lessons from the Oregon Trail." With fascinating details, facts, and illustrations, combined with Chris and Matt's incredible connections to organizations such as the Discovery Network and the Smithsonian Institution, How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi is sure to reach joyful STEM enthusiasts of all ages around the world. About Nerd Nite: Started in 2003, Nerd Nite is a monthly event held in 100+ cities worldwide during which folks give 20-minute fun-yet-informative presentations across all disciplines, while the audience drinks along!"--- Subjects: Humor.; Trivia and miscellanea.; Science; Science; Medicine; Medicine; Technology; Technology;
- Available copies: 25 / Total copies: 27
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- The social conquest of earth / by Wilson, Edward O.(CARDINAL)138801;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-326) and index.[pt.] 1. Why does advanced social life exist? The human condition -- [pt.] 2. Where do we come from? The two paths to conquest ; The approach ; The arrival ; Threading the evolutionary maze ; The creative forces ; Tribalism is a fundamental human trait ; War as humanity's hereditary curse ; The breakout ; The creative explosion ; The sprint to civilization -- [pt.] 3. How social insects conquered the invertebrate world. The invention of eusociality ; Inventions that advanced the social insects -- [pt.] 4. The forces of social evolution. The scientific dilemma of rarity ; Insect altruism and eusociality explained ; Insects take the giant leap ; How natural selection creates social instincts ; The forces of social evolution ; The emergence of a new theory of eusociality -- [pt.] 5. What are we? What is human nature? ; How culture evolved ; The origins of language ; The evolution of cultural variation ; The origins of morality and honor ; The origins of religion ; The origins of the creative arts -- [pt.] 6. Where are we going? A new enlightenment.Based on a lifetime of pioneering research, preeminent naturalist Edward O. Wilson gives us a new history of human evolution, presented in an elegant and provocative narrative that promises to have reverberations in fields as diverse as anthropology and social psychology, neuroscience and 21st-century intellectual and religious history. Wilson begins by addressing three "fundamental questions" of religion and philosophy that have fascinated thinkers for centuries: Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Writing that "the origin of modern humanity was a stroke of luck, good for our species for a while, bad for most of the rest of life forever," Wilson traces the rise of Homo sapiens from its infancy, drawing on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behavior to present us with the clearest explanation ever produced as to the origin of the human condition. Wilson also reveals how "group selection" can be the only model for explaining man's origins and domination, and warns that it has now accelerated--through unregulated and untrammeled growth--to such a point that the planet as we know it is being threatened.--From publisher description.From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.- Subjects: Social evolution; Human evolution; Evolution (Biology); Behavior genetics.; Sociobiology.;
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- Star Wars : the visual encyclopedia / by Barr, Patricia,author.(CARDINAL)345024; Bray, Adam,author.(CARDINAL)345026; Horton, Cole,author.(CARDINAL)345027; Muren, Dennis,writer of foreword.;
Foreword / by Dennis Muren -- Geography. Map of the galaxy ; Inner planets ; Outer rim planets ; Wild space and uknown regions planets ; Other celestial bodies ; Physical geography ; Urban geography ; Architecture -- Nature. Aquatic creatures ; Aerial creatures ; Space creatures ; Bugs, beasts, and invertebrates ; Mammals ; Amphibians and reptiles ; Wet habitat sentients ; Dry habitat sentients ; Adaptive sentients ; Plants -- History. Timeline ; Galactic politics ; The senate ; Wartime senate ; The jedi council ; The jedi ; The sith ; The separatists ; Regional politics ; The empire ; Rebels ; A new era ; Military officers ; Soldiers ; Pilots ; War ; Criminal organizations ; Criminal professions -- Culture. Royal outfits ; Occasion wear ; Everyday wear ; Work clothing ; Protective clothing ; Armor ; Helmets: intragalactic militaries ; Helmets: best of the rest ; Accessories ; Musical instruments ; Musicians and entertainers ; Leisure ; Podracing ; Podracers ; Fresh food ; Processed food ; Luggage ; Furniture ; Interior design ; Art ; Ethnography ; Languages of the galaxy -- Science and technology. The force ; Cloning ; Cyborgs ; Space technology ; Camera droids ; Labor droids ; Service droids ; Protocol droids ; Astromerch droids ; War droids ; Interrogation and security droids ; Medical droids ; Communications technology ; Information ; Health and safety ; Equipment ; Field gear ; Binoculars ; Stationary weapons ; Blasters: the good ; Blasters: the bad ; Rifles ; Unusual weapons and poisons ; Projectiles and shields ; Melee weapons ; Lightsabers ; Conventional lightsabers ; Unorthodox lightsabers ; Superweapons ; Warships ; Space travel ; Starfighters ; Air vehicles ; Surface and sea vehicles ; Walkers ; Tanks."Take a stunning visual tour of Star Wars with DK's comprehensive pictorial guide to the galaxy far, far away! From lightsabers and beasts to food and clothing, Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia is a virtual museum in a book. Explore beautiful galleries with more than 2,500 images, and discover facts about Star Wars culture, science, and geography."--IG1180L- Subjects: Encyclopedias.; Science fiction films.; Visual works.; Facts, Miscellaneous.; Illustrated works.; Trivia and miscellanea.; Star Wars films; Star Wars films;
- Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 19
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- The Internet kids & family yellow pages / by Polly, Jean Armour.(CARDINAL)757833;
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- Subjects: Directories.; Web sites; Web sites for children;
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