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Nuclear accidents / by Mayell, Mark.(CARDINAL)378539;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Accidents waiting to happen -- From meltdowns to leaks -- Weapons of mass destruction -- Risky business -- Nuclear 911: rescue and response -- The challenge of preventing nuclear accidents.Discusses the uses of radioactive substances and the dangers they present, including fallout from nuclear weapons testing, the meltdown at the Chernobyl power plant, and uranium mining accidents.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986; Disasters; Disasters; Nuclear power plants; Nuclear power plants; Radioactive substances;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Nuclear bodies : the global hibakusha / by Jacobs, Robert A.,1960-author;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-306) and index"In the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of miles from H-bomb detonations, yet he approved ninety-six US nuclear weapon tests for 1962. Cold War nuclear testing, production, and disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima have exposed millions to dangerous radioactive particles; these are the global hibakusha. Many communities continue to be plagued with dire legacies and ongoing risks: sickness and early mortality, forced displacement, uncertainty and anxiety, dislocation from ancestors and traditional lifestyles, and contamination of food sources and ecosystems. Robert A. Jacobs re-envisions the history of the Cold War as a slow nuclear war, fought on remote battlegrounds against populations powerless to prevent the contamination of their lands and bodies. His comprehensive account necessitates a profound rethinking of the meaning, costs, and legacies of our embrace of nuclear weapons and technologies"--Book jacket
Subjects: Nuclear energy;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Radioactive man : radioactive repository, volume one.
"Born in the Plutonium Age of Comics, 'Radioactive Man' has delighted comic aficionados with its savvy satire and pointed parodies of the last sixty years of comic book history. Ever since his historic comic book debut in 1952 (in 'The Simpsons' universe), Radioactive Man (otherwise known as layabout playboy Claude Kane III) and his faithful sidekick Fallout Boy (aka former juvenile delinquent Rod Runtledge) have been making Zenith City safe from insidious evildoers such as Dr. Crab, Magmo the Lava Man, Hypno-Head, Larva Girl, Larceny Lass, and Richard Milhous Nixon-- to name but a few. On a grander scale, Radioactive Man often battles evil across the universe, and even between dimensions, in the ranks of the Superior Squad, a super team of metahumans that includes Captain Squid, Bug Boy, Plasmo the Mystic, Lure Lass, Weasel Woman, and Brave Heart! For decades, fans have been clamoring for a deluxe collection of 'Radioactive Man' tales. Now, at last, the Atomic Avenger receives the treatment he deserves in this comprehensive and historic archival edition of his greatest adventures!"--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Fiction.; Graphic novels.; Graphic novels.; American wit and humor, Pictorial.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Strange glow : the story of radiation / by Jorgensen, Timothy J.,author.(CARDINAL)762830;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-464) and index."More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports. We worry and debate about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the safety of nuclear power plants. But how much do we really know about radiation? And what are its actual dangers? An accessible blend of narrative history and science, Strange Glow describes mankind's extraordinary, thorny relationship with radiation, including the hard-won lessons of how radiation helps and harms our health. Timothy Jorgensen explores how our knowledge of and experiences with radiation in the last century can lead us to smarter personal decisions about radiation exposures today. Jorgensen introduces key figures in the story of radiation--from Wilhelm Roentgen, the discoverer of x-rays, and pioneering radioactivity researchers Marie and Pierre Curie, to Thomas Edison and the victims of the recent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. Tracing the most important events in the evolution of radiation, Jorgensen explains exactly what radiation is, how it produces certain health consequences, and how we can protect ourselves from harm. He also considers a range of practical scenarios such as the risks of radon in our basements, radiation levels in the fish we eat, questions about cell-phone use, and radiation's link to cancer. Jorgensen empowers us to make informed choices while offering a clearer understanding of broader societal issues. Investigating radiation's benefits and risks, Strange Glow takes a remarkable look at how, for better or worse, radiation has transformed our society." -- $c Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Radiation.;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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Fallout / by Mara, Wil,author.(CARDINAL)330969;
Wil Mara returns with a top-notch thriller that will keep you flipping pages.Silver Lake, Pennsylvania, is hit by a monster storm. When a massive lightning strike hits one of the nuclear reactors that provides power to Silver Lake and much of the state, essential components fail. Explosions and containment breaches follow. Radiation pours into the storm-wracked air. Preparing for a storm was one thing, but all the duct tape, plastic tarps, and particle board in the world won't protect the townspeople from the fallout. Sarah Redmond, acting mayor of Silver Lake, and her husband, an EMT, find themselves battling the storm and nuclear disaster simultaneously: flash floods and evacuations, downed trees and radiation sickness. Staff at the power plant scramble to determine the extent of the damage and stop the leaks. Everything's being streamed onto the internet by Marla Hollis, a local journalist who happened to be in the right place at the wrong time. Trapped at the plant, she's determined to get the story out at any cost. Nuclear disaster, not in far-off Chernobyl or Fukushima, but on American soil. How much of Pennsylvania will become a radioactive nightmare for generations to come?When lightning hits a power plant's nuclear reactor releasing radiation into the air, a town's mayor and her EMT husband battle the monster storm and nuclear disaster simultaneously, while a journalist, trapped at the plant, streams the story live.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Fiction.; Nuclear power plants; Storms;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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If this book exists, you're in the wrong universe : a novel / by Pargin, Jason,1975-author.(CARDINAL)856992;
"... John Dies at the End series continues with If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe. If the broken neon signs, shuttered storefronts, and sub-standard housing didn't tip you off, you've just wandered into the city of "Undisclosed". You don't want to be caught dead here, because odds are you just might find yourself rising from the grave. That hasn't stopped tourists from visiting to check out the unusual phenomena that hangs around our town like radioactive fallout. Interdimensional parasites feeding on human hosts, paranormal cults worshipping demonic entities, vengeful teenage sorcerers, we've got it all. Did I mention the possessed toy? It's a plastic football-sized egg that's supposed to hatch an adorable, colorful stuffed bird when a child "feeds" it through a synchronized smartphone app. What's actually inside is an otherworldly monstrosity that's enticing impressionable wayward youth into murdering folks and depositing their body parts inside the egg as if it's a hungry piggy bank to trigger the end of the world. That's where Dave, John, and Amy come in. They face supernatural threats so the rest of us don't have to-and sometimes even earn a couple of bucks to so do. But between the bloody ritual sacrifices and soul-crushing nightmares, our trio realizes this apocalypse is way above their pay grade." --
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Novels.; Cults; Murder; Ritual murder;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13
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The conqueror [videorecording] : Hollywood fallout / by Nunez, William,1967-film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Waller, Douglas C.,film producer.(CARDINAL)166424; Okonedo, Sophie,on-screen participant,narrator.(CARDINAL)786771; Wayne, Patrick,1939-on-screen participant.; Medved, Michael,on-screen participant.(CARDINAL)140833; Chaire, Hugo de,film composer.; Weinstein, Justin,film editor.; Painter, Samuel,director of photography.; Breaking Glass Pictures (Firm),publisher.;
Music by Hugo de Chaire ; editor, Justin Weinstein ; director of photography, Samuel Painter.Featuring Sophie Okonedo, Patrick Wayne, Michael Medved, Barrie Chase, John William Law, Mary Dickson, James D'arcy; narrated by Sophie Okonedo.Hollywood's infamous flop, The Conqueror, stars John Wayne as Genghis Khan, embodying a slew of racist and sexist problems. Its enduring notoriety stems from the tragic fact that nearly half its cast and crew developed cancer, revealing a tale of government deception and negligent production choices, highlighting the devastating impact of nuclear fallout.Rating: Not rated.Closed captioning in English.DVD, NTSC, region 1; wide screen (1.85:1); 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Historical films.; Conqueror (Motion picture); Motion pictures; Racism in motion pictures.; Sexism in motion pictures.; Radioactive pollution.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ultimate Comics Spider-Man : 1 / by Bendis, Brian Michael.(CARDINAL)340454; Pichelli, Sara.(CARDINAL)591718; Messina.(CARDINAL)354888; Hickman, Jonathan.(CARDINAL)345815; Larroca, Salvador.(CARDINAL)340000; Spencer, Nick.(CARDINAL)345856; Crain, Clayton.(CARDINAL)552822;
Ultimate comics : Fallout #4. Reed Richards / Jonathan Hickman, writer ; Salvador Larroca, artist ; Frank D'Armata, colorist ; VC's Cory Petit, Clayton Cowles, letterers ; Valerie Cooper / Nick Spencer, writer ; Clayton Crain, artist ; VC's Cory Petit, Clayton Cowles, letterers.After being bitten by a stolen radioactive spider, grade-school student Miles Morales becomes the new Spider-Man, but, even with powers uniquely his own, he will find Peter Parker's legacy difficult to live up to.IG310L
Subjects: Superhero comics.; Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Young adult fiction.; Spider-Man (Fictitious character); Science fiction Cartoons and comics.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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100 diagrams that changed the world : from the earliest cave paintings to the innovation of the iPod / by Christianson, Scott.(CARDINAL)163678;
Chauvet cave drawings (c. 30,000 BC) -- Triple spiral (c. 3200 BC) -- Marshall Islands stick navigation charts (c. 2000-500 BC) -- Babylonian "Pythagoras theorem" (c. 1900-1700 BC) -- Phaistos disc (c. 1700 BC) -- Egyptian Book of the Dead (c. 1550-50 BC) -- Sheet music (c. 1400 BC) -- Battering ram (c. 865-860 BC) -- Babylonian map of the world (c. 600 BC) -- Classical orders of architecture (c. 600-100 BC) -- Acupuncture points (c. 305-204 BC) -- Elements of geometry, Euclid (c. 300 BC) -- Rosetta stone (196 BC) -- The Ptolemaic system, Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 140-150) -- Ptolemy's World map, Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 150) -- Porphyrian tree, Porphyry of Tyre (c. AD 300) -- Nazca lines (c. AD 400-650) -- Dunhuang star map (c. AD 649-684) -- Lunar eclipse, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni (1019) -- Heraldry (1127) -- Compendium of the genealogy of Christ, Peter of Poitiers (c. 1230) -- Carta Pisana (chart of Pisa) (c. 1275-1300) -- Optics, Roger Bacon (c. 1267-69) -- Dante's Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1308-21) -- Windmill-powered "car"/submarine, Guido da Vigevano (1328) -- Astrarium, Giovanni de 'Dondi (1364) -- The Voynich manuscript (c. 1404-38) -- The castle of perseverance (c. 1405-25) -- Exploded-view diagram, Mariano Taccola (c. 1450) -- Aztec calendar (1479) -- Vitruvian man, Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1487) -- Helicopter and flying machine, Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1493-1505) -- Foetus in the womb, Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1510) -- Triangulation, Regnier Gemma Frisius (1533) -- Astronomicum Caesareum, Petrus Apianus (1540) -- Human body, Andreas Vesalius (1543) -- Heliocentric universe, Nicolas Copernicus (1543) -- Camera obscura, Regnier Gemma Frisius (1544) -- The Four Books of Architecture, Andrea Palladio (1570) -- Flush toilet, John Harington (1596) -- Kepler's law of planetary motion, Johannes Kepler (1609) -- Telescope, Galileo Galilei (1610) -- Moon drawings, Galileo Galilei (1610) -- Movement of objects, René Descartes (1644) -- Pendulum clock, Christiaan Huygens (1657) -- Micrographia, Robert Hooke (1665) -- Prism "crucial experiment", Isaac Newton (1666-72) -- Bacteria, Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1683) -- Steam engine, Thomas Newcomen (1708-12) -- Machine gun, James Puckle (1718) -- Color wheel, Moses Harris (1766) -- A new chart of history, Joseph Priestly (1769) -- Bifocals, Benjamin Franklin (1784) -- Bar chart, William Playfair (1786) -- Line graph, William Playfair (1786) -- Brooks slave ship, Thomas Clarkson (1788) -- Cotton gin, Eli Whitney (1794) -- Phrenology, Franz Joseph Gall (1796) -- Electrical circuit diagram, Alessandro Volta (1800) -- Steam locomotive, George Stephenson (1815) -- Clifton suspension bridge, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1830) -- Evolutionary tree, Charles Darwin (1837) -- Morse code, Samuel Morse (1840) -- Dinosaur (Megalosaurus), Richard Owen (1854) -- Rose (or polar area) diagram, Florence Nightingale (1858) -- Graded sewing patterns, Ebenezer Butterick (1863) -- Pedal bicycle, Pierre Lallement (1866) -- Periodic table, Dmitri Mendeleev (1869) -- Weather map, Francis Galton (1875) -- Telephone, Alexander Graham Bell (1876) -- Light bulb, Thomas Edison (1880) -- Venn diagrams, John Venn (1880) -- Emoticons, Puck Magazine (1881) -- Treasure Island map, Robert Louis Stevenson (1883) -- Pictogram graphs, Michael George Mulhall (1884) -- Car, Karl Benz (1886) -- Right-hand rule, John Ambrose Fleming (c. 1890) -- Powered plane, Wright Brothers (1903) -- London underground map (1908) -- Spacetime diagrams, Hermann Minkowski (1908) -- Flow chart, Frank Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1921) -- Id, ego, super-ego, Sigmund Freud (1921-23) -- Television, John Logie Baird (1926) -- Nazi propaganda map, Rupert von Schumacher (1934) -- London A-Z, Phyllis Pearsall (1936) -- Cubism and abstract art, Alfred Barr (1936) -- V2 rocket, German Armed Forces (1942) -- Feynman diagrams, Richard Feynman (1949) -- DNA double helix, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Odile Crick (1953) -- Flat-pack furniture, Gillis Lundgren, IKEA (1956) -- Vostok 1, Sergei Korolev (1961) -- Cuban Missile Crisis, Central Intelligence Agency (1962) -- ARPANET, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (1969) -- Intel 4004 CPU, Ted Hoff, Stanley Mazor, Masatoshi Shima, Frederico Faggin, Philip Tai, and Wayne Pickette (1971) -- Pioneer plaque, Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, and Linda Salzman Sagan (1972) -- Mobile phone, Martin Cooper/Motorola (1973) -- Apple Computer, Steve Jobs (1980) -- Chernobyl radioactive fallout map (1986) -- World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee (1989) -- iPod, Steve Jobs (2001).From primitive cave paintings to deciphering the DNA helix, this chronological guide describes the important sketches, plans, and drawings that had profound and dramatic effects on history and the way people viewed the world.
Subjects: Chronologies.; Charts, diagrams, etc.; Visual communication in science; Visual communication;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Marvel-verse. by Busiek, Kurt,writer.(CARDINAL)350752; Chen, Sean,artist.(CARDINAL)426379; Cordeiro, James,artist.(CARDINAL)490249; Michelinie, David,writer.(CARDINAL)355541; Nolan, Graham,artist.(CARDINAL)635688; Van Lente, Fred,writer.(CARDINAL)344252;
When the genius Tony Stark is held captive and forced to make weapons, his best chance of escape lies in building the greatest weapon of all - the very first version of the Iron Man armor! Then, Shellhead meets Webhead as Iron Man and Spider-Man team up to take down the deadly Radioactive Man! And when Tony Stark makes a dramatic public return to start the next chapter of his business life, a newly-souped up Iron Man finds himself targeted for death! Finally, does Iron Man stand a ghost of a chance battling the Marvel-Verse's most fearsome armored foe - the dastardly Doctor Doom?!For Ages 10+.
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Novels.; Science fiction comics.; Iron Man (Fictitious character);
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 18
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