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A plague of rats and rubbervines : the growing threat of species invasions / by Baskin, Yvonne.(CARDINAL)169661; Global Invasive Species Programme.(CARDINAL)265839; International Council of Scientific Unions.Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment.(CARDINAL)268259;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-354) and index.1. Introduction : confronting a shrinking world -- 2. Reuniting Pangaea -- 3. Wheat and trout, weeds and pestilence -- 4. Elbowing out the natives -- 5. The good, the bad, the fuzzy -- 6. The making of a pest -- 7. Taking risks with strangers -- 8. Stemming the tide -- 9. Beachheads and sleepers -- 10. Taking control -- 11. Islands no longer -- 12. Can we preserve integrity of place.
Subjects: Biological invasions.; Nature conservation.; Environmental education.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Witness [sound recording] by Roberts, Nora(CARDINAL)341043; Whelan, Julia :arrator;
Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man?s seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance programmer, she works at home designing sophisticated security systems. Her own security is supplemented by a fierce dog and an assortment of firearms. She keeps to herself, saying little, revealing nothing. Unfortunately, that seems to be the quickest way to get attention in a tiny southern town. The mystery of Abigail Lowery intrigues local police chief Brooks Gleason, on both a personal and a professional level. Her sharp, logical mind, her secretive nature, her unromantic viewpoints leave him fascinated but frustrated. He suspects that Abigail needs protection from something, even if he doesn?t know what ? and that her elaborate defenses hide a story that must be revealed. Accustomed to two-bit troublemakers, Gleason is about to walk into the sights of very powerful and dangerous men. And Abigail Lowery, who has built a life based on security and self-control, is at risk of losing both.Fiction
Subjects: Drama; Mystery; Romance; Suspense;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Introduction to computer organization : an under the hood look at hardware and X86-64 assembly / by Plantz, Bob,author.;
Introduction to Computer Organization gives programmers a practical understanding of what happens in a computer when you execute your code. You may never have to write x86-64 assembly language or design hardware yourself, but knowing how the hardware and software works will give you greater control and confidence over your coding decisions. We start with high level fundamental concepts like memory organization, binary logic, and data types and then explore how they are implemented at the assembly language level. The goal isn't to make you an assembly programmer, but to help you comprehend what happens behind the scenes between running your program and seeing "Hello World" displayed on the screen. Classroom-tested for over a decade, this book will demystify topics like: ?How to translate a high-level language code into assembly language ?How the operating system manages hardware resources with exceptions and interrupts ?How data is encoded in memory ?How hardware switches handle decimal data ?How program code gets transformed into machine code the computer understands ?How pieces of hardware like the CPU, input/output, and memory interact to make the entire system work.
Subjects: Computer organization.; X86 assembly language (Computer program language);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Super scratch programming adventure! : learn to program by making cool games / by LEAD Project,creator.(CARDINAL)401602;
"Scratch is the wildly popular educational programming language used by millions of first-time learners in classrooms, libraries, and homes worldwide. By dragging together colorful blocks of code, kids quickly learn computer programming concepts and make cool games and animations. In Super Scratch Programming Adventure!, kids learn programming fundamentals as they make their very own playable video games. They'll create projects inspired by classic arcade games that can be programmed (and played!) in an afternoon. The book's patient, step-by-step explanations of the code and fun programming challenges will have kids creating their own games in no time. This full-color comic book makes programming concepts like flow control, subroutines, and data types effortless to absorb. Packed with ideas for games that kids will be proud to show off, Super Scratch Programming Adventure! is the perfect first step for the budding programmer."--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Scratch (Computer program language); Video games;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Toxic : a history of nerve agents, from Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia / by Kaszeta, Dan,author.(DLC)n 2012060853;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-347) and index.Nerve agents are the world's deadliest means of chemical warfare. Nazi Germany developed the first military-grade nerve agents and massive industry for their manufacture--yet, strangely, the Third Reich never used them. At the end of the Second World War, the Allies were stunned to discover this advanced and extensive programme. The Soviets and Western powers embarked on a new arms race, amassing huge chemical arsenals. From their Nazi invention to the 2018 Novichok attack in Britain, Dan Kaszeta uncovers nerve agents' gradual spread across the world, despite international arms control efforts. They've been deployed in the Iran-Iraq War, by terrorists in Japan, in the Syrian Civil War, and by assassins in Malaysia and Salisbury--always with bitter consequences. Toxic recounts the grisly history of these weapons of mass destruction: a deadly suite of invisible, odourless killers.
Subjects: Chemical warfare; Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous.; Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Resumes that knock 'em dead / by Yate, Martin John.(CARDINAL)184035;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-290) and index.
Subjects: Résumés (Employment);
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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Talk on the wild side : why language can't be tamed / by Greene, Robert Lane,author.(CARDINAL)502688;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index."Language is a wild thing. It is vague and anarchic. Style, meaning, and usage are continually on the move. Throughout history, for every mutation, idiosyncrasy, and ubiquitous mistake, there have been countervailing rules, pronouncements and systems making some attempt to bring language to heel. From the utopian language-builder to the stereotypical grammatical stickler to the programmer trying to teach a computer to translate, Lane Greene takes the reader through a multi-disciplinary survey of the many different ways in which we attempt to control language, exploring the philosophies, motivations, and complications of each. The result is a highly readable caper that covers history, linguistics, politics, and grammar with the ease and humor of a dinner party anecdote. Talk on the Wild Side is both a guide to the great debates and controversies of usage, and a love letter to language itself. Holding it together is Greene's infectious enthusiasm for his subject. While you can walk away with the finer points of who says "whom" and the strange history of "buxom" schoolboys, most of all, it inspires awe in language itself: for its elegance, resourcefulness, and power."--publisher's description.Introduction: The Case of the Missing Whom -- Bringing the universe to order -- Is language logic? -- Machines for talking -- Buxom, but never nice -- Language tamers with armies and navies -- Whom in a biker bar -- Apologies to Orwell -- Conclusion: Weirder and more wonderful.
Subjects: Language and languages.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The witness / by Roberts, Nora,author.(CARDINAL)341043;
"A brand new novel--and a stunning new heroine--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author"--Provided by publisher."Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance programmer, she works at home designing sophisticated security systems. Her own security is supplemented by a fierce dog and an assortment of firearms. She keeps to herself, saying little, revealing nothing. Unfortunately, that seems to be the quickest way to get attention in a tiny southern town. The mystery of Abigail Lowery intrigues local police chief Brooks Gleason, on both a personal and a professional level. He suspects that Abigail needs protection from something. Gleason is about to walk into the sights of very powerful and dangerous men. And Abigail, who has built a life based on security and self-control, is at risk of losing both." -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Romance fiction.; Child witnesses; Mafia; Murder; Police chiefs;
Available copies: 136 / Total copies: 182
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A second chance for yesterday / by Sinn, R. A.,author.(CARDINAL)874948;
"Nev Bourne is a hotshot programmer for the latest and greatest tech invention out there: SavePoint, the brain implant that rewinds the seconds of all our most embarrassing moments. She's been working non-stop on the next rollout, even blowing off her boyfriend, her best friend and her family to make SavePoint 2.0. But when she hits go on the test-run, she wakes up the next day only to discover it's yesterday. She's falling backwards in time, one day at a time. As things spiral out of control, a long-lost friend from college reappears in her life claiming they know how to save her. Airin is charming and mysterious, and somehow knows Nev intimately well. Desperate and intrigued, Nev takes a leap of faith. A friendship born of fear slowly becomes a bond of deepest trust, and possibly love. With time running out, and the whole world of SavePoint users at stake, Nev must learn what it will take to set things right, and what it will cost"--
Subjects: Time-travel fiction.; Science fiction.; Women computer programmers;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Sustaining life : how human health depends on biodiversity / by Bernstein, Aaron,1976-(CARDINAL)337984; Chivian, Eric.(CARDINAL)337985; IUCN--The World Conservation Union.(CARDINAL)322445; Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.(CARDINAL)337983; United Nations Development Programme.(CARDINAL)324018; United Nations Environment Programme.(CARDINAL)149220;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-514) and index.From the Publisher: The Earth's biodiversity-the rich variety of life on our planet-is disappearing at an alarming rate. And while many books have focused on the expected ecological consequences, or on the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, or economic dimensions of this loss, Sustaining Life is the first book to examine the full range of potential threats that diminishing biodiversity poses to human health. Edited and written by Harvard Medical School physicians Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein, along with more than 100 leading scientists who contributed to writing and reviewing the book, Sustaining Life presents a comprehensive-and sobering-view of how human medicines, biomedical research, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, and the production of food, both on land and in the oceans, depend on biodiversity. The book's ten chapters cover everything from what biodiversity is and how human activity threatens it to how we as individuals can help conserve the world's richly varied biota. Seven groups of organisms, some of the most endangered on Earth, provide detailed case studies to illustrate the contributions they have already made to human medicine, and those they are expected to make if we do not drive them to extinction. Drawing on the latest research, but written in language a general reader can easily follow, Sustaining Life argues that we can no longer see ourselves as separate from the natural world, nor assume that we will not be harmed by its alteration. Our health, as the authors so vividly show, depends on the health of other species and on the vitality of natural ecosystems. With a foreword by E.O. Wilson and a prologue by Kofi Annan, and more than 200 poignant color illustrations, Sustaining Life contributes essential perspective to the debate over how humans affect biodiversity and a compelling demonstration of the human health costs.1600L
Subjects: Biodiversity.; Environmental health.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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