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How to draw steampunk / by Berry, Bob,1953-(CARDINAL)460894; DeBlasio, Allison.(CARDINAL)599716; Marsocci, Joey.(CARDINAL)597103;
Discover steampunk. History & origin -- Artistic inspiration -- Tools & materials -- Drawing techniques -- Creating textures -- Perspective basics -- Color theory -- Colored pencil techniques -- Painting techniques -- Digital illustration -- Gadgetry. Spider -- Infolodeon -- Lightning gun -- Pipe organ -- Bison -- Speedster -- Steampunk characters. Figure proportions -- Iconic characters and victorian styles -- Soldier -- Steam lady -- Villain -- Massive machines. Nautilus -- Zeppelin -- Flying galleon -- Steam world. Time machine -- Steam city -- Conclusion.Presents step-by-step instructions for drawing steampunk gadgets, characters, machines, and worlds, and discusses various artistic techniques and tools.
Subjects: Drawing; Fantasy in art.; Image processing; Science fiction in art.; Steampunk comic books, strips, etc.; Steampunk culture.; Technology in art.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 12
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The encaustic studio : a wax workshop in mixed-media art / by Woolf, Daniella,1948-(CARDINAL)591330;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Tools and Materials -- Design Theory, Visual Thinking, and Inspiration -- Preparation, Finishing, and Studio Tips -- Techniques -- Transfers -- Lines and Edges -- Collage -- Pigment -- 3-D and Sculptural -- Projects -- A Day with You -- Mom's Recipes -- Collage Composition -- True Grid with Variations -- Stripes (Love Notes to Me) -- What's in a Name -- Encaustic Spirit Boat -- Paper Pyramids -- Gallery -- Resources -- Recommended Reading -- Index."Award-winning encaustic artist Daniella Woolf shares her groundbreaking techniques and ideas in working with encaustic, a highly-versatile and popular mixed-media technique that unifies and brings all elements together. Inside this essential resource on encaustic art, you'll discover a thorough introduction to materials and methods, pigment exploration, sculptural techniques, and incorporating found objects. Daniella also teaches you how to compose encaustic art by layering such techniques as collage, stenciling, masking, pigmenting, and image transfers into wax, as well as how to fuse the layers with heat. You'll be inspired by a broad selection of projects and progress into extending the myriad of possibilities using encaustic techniques. The versatility of encaustic is enhanced and beautifully illustrated throughout the book. Also included in the book is a one-hour bonus DVD showcasing Daniella's expert teaching and the book's extensive techniques. "--
Subjects: Encaustic painting;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Pseudoscience : an amusing history of crackpot ideas and why we love them / by Kang, Lydia,author.(CARDINAL)349637; Pedersen, Nate,author.(CARDINAL)349636;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-296) and index.Introduction --"More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle originated the scientific method. And it's been an uphill battle ever since. Instead of sticking to what the evidence proves, we love to believe in things like the Bermuda Triangle, personality tests, crop circles, Bigfoot, spontaneous human combustion, and UFOs. Covering everything from the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, hucksterism to conspiracy theories, Pseudoscience is an entertaining, compulsively readable, and visually rich look at the history of the bizarre and our all-too-human weakness to fall for things scientifically suspect. But also, let's be honest--the earth does seem kind of flat."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Pseudoscience.; Quacks and quackery.;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 12
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The great reset : Joe Biden and the rise of 21st century fascism / by Beck, Glenn,author,editor.(CARDINAL)460573; Haskins, Justin(Director of the Stopping Socialism Center),author,editor.; Kendal, Donald,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-317).Preface -- A brave [crossed out] terrifying new world -- Never let a global pandemic go to waste -- Climate change: the catalyst for a "new world order" -- Modern monetary theory: fuel for a global economic takeover -- The great reset: building a twenty-first century fascism machine -- Joe Biden and the great reset of America -- Derailing the great reset."[The authors] use a blend of humor, storytelling, and detailed analysis to reveal for the first time the unbelievable truth about the Great Reset, tying together nearly two decades of groundbreaking research about authoritarian movements and their efforts to fundamentally transform the United States."--
Subjects: Fascism; Elite (Social sciences); Economic policy; Conservatism;
Available copies: 42 / Total copies: 52
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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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The Usborne illustrated dictionary of physics / by Stockley, Corinne.(CARDINAL)200284; Oxlade, Chris.(CARDINAL)343232; Wertheim, Jane.(CARDINAL)533702; Johnson, Fiona,illustrator.(CARDINAL)425591;
Illustrations portray theories, experiments, and instruments related to all areas of physics, including energy, machines, waves, electricity, magnetism, and nuclear reactions.7-9
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Physics;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Tangle stitches for quilters + fabric artists : relax, meditate, and create with rhythmic stitches / by Monk, Jane,author.(CARDINAL)614866;
Zentangle = filling odd shaped spaces with repetitive patterns using pen and paper, developed by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas. Zentangle quilting = filling odd shaped spaces with repetitive patterns using machine stitches and thread. Free-motion quilting in repetitive patterns is not new to quilters. They have long used stitch patterns like "vermicelli" and "echo" stitching to quilt their projects. Tangle Stitches for Quilters and Fabric Artists takes the concepts, theory and method of Zentangle and transfer them into quilting patterns and projects. You will learn how to create tangle patterns on paper and then how to create the same patterns in thread, the key difference being that Zentangle patterns on paper are 'one stroke at a time' while quilting patterns are most efficiently achieved in one continuous line. Zentangle-inspired quilting projects include materials, how to mark and prepare fabric, tricks and tools. The projects can be achieved on either a domestic (conventional sit-down) sewing machine or longarm quilting machine.
Subjects: Quilting; Textile crafts.; Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts) in art.; Stitches (Sewing); Quilting.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The cosmic landscape : string theory and the illusion of intelligent design / by Susskind, Leonard.(CARDINAL)473658;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The world according to Feynman -- The mother of all physics problems -- The lay of the land -- The myth of uniqueness and elegance -- A thunderbolt from heaven -- On frozen fish and boiled fish -- A rubber band-powered world -- Reincarnation -- On our own? -- The branes behind Rube Goldberg's greatest machine -- A bubble bath universe -- The black hole war -- Summing up.The beginning of the 21st century is a watershed in modern science, a time that will forever change our understanding of the universe, Susskind contends. Several decades ago, he introduced the revolutionary concept of string theory to the world of physical science. In doing so, he inspired a generation of physicists who believed that the theory would uniquely predict the properties of our universe. Now, in his first book, Susskind argues that the very idea of such an "elegant theory" no longer suits our understanding of the universe, and that our narrow 20th-century view of a unique universe will have to give way to the much broader concept of a gigantic cosmic landscape--a megaverse, pregnant with new possibilities.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Cosmogony.; Astrophysics.; Intelligent design (Teleology); String models.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 10
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Power, sex, suicide : mitochondria and the meaning of life / by Lane, Nick,1967-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-512) and index.The deepest evolutionary chasm -- Quest for a progenitor -- The hydrogen hypothesis -- The meaning of respiration -- Proton power -- The origin of life -- Why bacteria are simple -- Why mitochondria make complexity possible -- The power laws of biology -- The warm-blooded revolution -- Conflict in the body -- Foundations of the individual -- The asymmetry of sex -- What human prehistory says about the sexes -- Why there are two sexes -- The mitochondrial theory of ageing -- Demise of the self-correcting machine -- A cure for old age?Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are fundamental for driving complex life on the planet. But there is much more to them than that. Mitochondria have their own DNA, with their own small collection of genes, separate from those in the cell nucleus. It is thought that they were once bacteria living independent lives. Their enslavement within the larger cell was a turning point in the evolution of life, enabling the development of complex organisms and, closely related, the origin of two sexes. Unlike the DNA in the nucleus, mitochondrial DNA is passed down exclusively (or almost exclusively) via the female line. That's why it has been used by some researchers to trace human ancestry daughter-to-mother, to 'Mitochondrial Eve'. Mitochondria give us important information about our evolutionary history. And that's not all. Mitochondrial genes mutate much faster than those in the nucleus because of the free radicals produced in their energy-generating role. This high mutation rate lies behind our ageing and certain congenital diseases. The latest research suggests that mitochondria play a key role in degenerative diseases such as cancer, through their involvement in precipitating cell suicide. Mitochondria, then, are pivotal in power, sex, and suicide. In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Nick Lane brings together the latest research findings in this exciting field to show how our growing understanding of mitochondria is shedding light on how complex life evolved, why sex arose (why don't we just bud?), and why we age and die. This understanding is of fundamental importance, both in understanding how we and all other complex life came to be, but also in order to be able to control our own illnesses, and delay our degeneration and death. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.
Subjects: Mitochondria.; Mitochondrial DNA.; Energy metabolism.; Eukaryotic cells;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Timeline [large print] : a novel / by Crichton, Michael,1942-2008,author.(CARDINAL)125108;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 752-756).Using a quantum time machine, a group of young historians are sent back to the year 1357 to rescue their project leader
Subjects: Large print books.; Science fiction.; Time-travel fiction.; Historians; Quantum theory; Twenty-first century;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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