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The pursuit of happyness [videorecording] / by Black, Todd,producer.(CARDINAL)543439; Blumenthal, Jason,producer.(CARDINAL)848916; Castellaneta, Dan,actor.(CARDINAL)847497; Conrad, Steve,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)481616; Fuller, Kurt,1953-actor.(CARDINAL)848200; Gardner, Chris(Chris P.),interviewee.(CARDINAL)476394; Guerra, Andrea,1961-composer.(CARDINAL)852201; Howe, Brian(Actor),actor.(CARDINAL)849826; Karen, James,1923-2018,actor.(CARDINAL)852132; Lassiter, James,producer.(CARDINAL)852202; Muccino, Gabriele,director.(CARDINAL)848312; Newton, Thandiwe,1972-actor.(CARDINAL)786248; Papamichael, Phedon,cinematographer.(CARDINAL)838320; Smith, Jaden,1998-actor.(CARDINAL)552625; Smith, Will,1968-producer,actor.(CARDINAL)340614; Tisch, Steve,producer.(CARDINAL)847866; Winborne, Hughes,film editor.(CARDINAL)852034; Columbia Pictures Industries.(CARDINAL)161442; Escape Artists (Firm)(CARDINAL)548664; Overbrook Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)340622; Relativity Media.(CARDINAL)551892; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)282399;
One day at a time -- Riding the bus -- Two questions -- Being stupid -- Making contacts -- Birthday wishes -- Ride share -- Cab fare -- Go get happy -- Parking tickets -- Big interview -- Second thought -- Linda is leaving -- Packing up -- Taking care -- Internship -- Beyond the call -- Hot lead -- Possibilities -- Paying taxes -- The time machine -- Locked out -- Safe cave -- Four spots left -- Climbing mountains -- Shining light -- Change of scenery -- Happyness.Director of photography, Phedon Papamichael ; film editor, Hughes Winborne ; music by Andrea Guerra ; production designer, J. Michael Riva ; costume designer, Sharen Davis.Will Smith (Chris Gardner), Thandie Newton (Linda), Brian Howe (Jay Twistle), James Karen (Martin Frohm), Dan Castellaneta (Alan Frakesh), Kurt Fuller (Walter Ribbon), Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (Christopher).Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a single dad who has to support and care for a young child. Impressing a Dean Witter higher-up by solving a Rubik's cube during a taxi ride, Chris gets a place in a stockbroker-training program. But internships don't pay, and there's no guarantee he'll be offered a job at the end of it. Against all odds, he pushes toward success, and eventually turns his life around.MPAA rating: PG-13 for some language.DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 2.40:1.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Drama.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Interviews.; Melodramas (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Gardner, Chris (Chris P.); Gardner, Chris (Chris P.); Despair; Dreams; Fathers and sons; Homelessness; Internship programs; Millionaires; Sales personnel; Single fathers; Stockbrokers;
Available copies: 74 / Total copies: 113
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F-35 : the inside story of the Lightning II / by Burbage, Tomauthor.; Clark, Betsyauthor.; Pitman, Adrianauthor.; Poyer, Davidauthor.(CARDINAL)171426;
Preface -- A dark and stormy night -- History of fighter aircraft -- The tension builds -- A battle in the sky -- The Rubik's Cube of partnering -- Building the Global Security Partnership-European and Pacific alliances -- Building the global industrial ecosystem -- Engineering a new global culture -- Defining a new beast: converting general requirements into a combat machine -- The devil's in the details -- Controlling the beast -- Innovation doesn't just happen -- Testing the beast -- The best seat in the house -- Roles and missions matter -- Remaking Her Majesty's armed forces -- The perfect storm -- Transparency, trust, and realism -- It's only software -- Executing to the new plan -- Building the beast -- Sustaining the beast -- The media war and the sleeping stakeholders -- Spy vs. spy -- The land down under -- G'day USA, G'day world -- The Arctic alliance: The reluctant partner-eh, Canada? -- Final exams -- The tyranny of time -- Postscript -- Epilogue -- Acronym list -- Index.The inside story of the most expensive and controversial military program in history, as told by those who lived it. The F-35 has changed allied combat warfare. But by the time it?s completed, it will cost more than the Manhattan Project and the B-2 Stealth Bomber. It has been subject to the most aggressive cyberattacks in history from China, Russia, North Korea, and others. Its stealth technology required nearly 9 million lines of code; NASA?s Curiosity Mars rover required 2.5 million. And it was this close to failure. F-35 is the only inside look at the most advanced aircraft in the world and the historic project that built it, as told by those who were intimately involved in its design, testing, and production. Based on the authors' personal experience and over 100+ interviews, F-35 pulls back the curtain on one of the most heavily criticized government programs in history from start to finish: the dramatic flights that won Lockheed Martin the contract over Boeing; the debates and decisions over capabilities; feats of software, hardware, and aeronautical engineering that made it possible; how the project survived the Nunn-McCurdy breach; the conflicts among all three branches of the U.S. military, between the eight other allied nation partners, and against spy elements from enemies.
Subjects: F-16 (Jet fighter plane).; Fighter planes.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The 1980s / by Batchelor, Bob.(CARDINAL)352434; Stoddart, Scott Frederick,1960-(CARDINAL)436325;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208) and index.The eighties are seen by many as a time of excess and extremes. From Boy George to Madonna, metal heads to valley girls, and workout clothes to shoulder pads, many pushed the boundaries of what was was conventional. After a decade of war, disillusionment of the government, advances in civil rights, and disco, Americans became status seekers and shopaholics and the Me generation was born. Twelve narrative chapters describe the decade of decedence and its impact on popular culture including: the AIDS epidemic, preppies, Miami Vice, the Rubik's Cube, E.T., hair bands, the advent of the personal computer, malls, Ronald Reagan, Pac-Man, Cheers, Stephen King, Michael Jackson, the shuttle Challenger explosion, Bonfire of the Vanities, music videos, Roseanne, the power suit, Less Than Zero, rap music, and The Cosby Show, among many others. Chapters on Everyday America and the World of Youth describe the important changes in American society, from Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs, to latch-key kids, to Black Monday. The following ten chapters explore the many aspects of popular culture-everything from advertising to fashion, literature to music, travel to the visual arts-that influenced Americans in the eighties. Supplemental resources include a timeline of important events, an extensive bibliography for further reading and a subject index.
Subjects: Popular culture; Nineteen eighties.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mad science : Einstein's fridge, Dewar's flask, Mach's speed, and 362 other inventions and discoveries that made our world / by Alfred, Randy,editor.(CARDINAL)401183; Alfred, Randy.(CARDINAL)401183;
"365 days of inventions, discoveries, science, and technology, from the editors of Wired Magazine. On January 30, Rubik applied for a patent on his cube (1975). On the next day, 17 years earlier, the first U.S. Satellite passed through the Van Allen radiation belt. On March 17, the airplane "black box" made its maiden voyage (1953). And what about today? Every day of the year has a rich scientific and technological heritage just waiting to be uncovered, and Wired's top-flight science-trivia book MAD SCIENCE collects them chronologically, from New Year's Day to year's end, showing just how entertaining, wonderful, bizarre, and relevant science can be. In 2010, Wired's popular "This Day in Tech" blog peaked with more than 700,000 page views each month, and one story in 2008 drew more than a million unique viewers. This book will collect the most intriguing anecdotes from the blog's run-one for each day of the year-and publish them in a package that will instantly appeal to hardcore techies and curious laypeople alike. "--
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Blogs.; Science; Science;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 7
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I've been thinking / by Dennett, D. C.(Daniel Clement),author.(CARDINAL)330710;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue. Lucky Dan -- Part one. Off to a fast start : Childhood ; Music: an important digression ; Wesleyan, then on to Harvard (1959-63) ; Oxford, 1963-65 ; Discovering naturalism--a different way of being a philosopher? -- Part two. Other minds : UC Irvine, 1965-71 ; Moving back east ; A year at Harvard, meeting Jerry Fodor ; Academic politics at Tufts ; Where am I? ; Meanwhile, back at the farm ; Finding Xanthippe, leaving the farm ; Honorary family members, Behavioral and Brain Sciences -- Part three. My odyssey : Bristaol and All Souls, 1978-79 ; CASBS, 1979-80, and meeting Dgoulas Hofstadter ; Rubik's cube, Prague, and Dahlem ; "Are rabbits birds?" and other memorable phone calls ; Ruth Millikan, who broke through the unsound barrier ; Big George and the curricular software studio ; The Locke lectures and the Vervet monkeys in Amboseli ; The Center for Cognitive Studies, adventures with Nicholas Humphrey ; Italian connections and their aftermaths ; Consciousness Explained ; The Turing test as more than a thought experiment ; Adventures with robots: the whole iguana, cog, and tati ; Seymour Papert and Marvin Minsky ; Breaking the Spell ; Finding the funny bone with Jonathan Miller and Matthew Hurley ; A troika of russian adventures ; TED ; Why, oh why, do I love... ; One more Eden: the Santa Fe Institute -- Part four. Academic battles : The history of philosophy, Richard Rorty ; Academic bullies and iconoclasts ; Reverse engineering one's thinking tools ; What if I'm wrong?"Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness and how did it come about? What distinguishes human minds from the minds of animals? Dennett's answers have profoundly shaped our age of philosophical thought. In I've Been Thinking, he reflects on his amazing career and lifelong scientific fascinations" --
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement); Cognitive science.; Thought and thinking.; Philosophy, Modern; Philosophy, Modern; Philosophers;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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Pop culture-inspired programs for tweens, teens, and adults / by Alessio, Amy J.,author.(CARDINAL)279799; LaMantia, Katie,author.(CARDINAL)410028; Vinci, Emily,1988-author.(CARDINAL)410062;
Part 1. 1950s -- Chex mix and more: nifty fifties' snacks -- Everything Barbie -- I love Lucy -- The name is Bond, James Bond -- Make your own BBQ -- Model train mania -- Fifties' chic: poodle totes -- Part 2. 1960s -- 100 years of life: board game history and challenges -- Decoupage daydream -- Everything denim -- Holy primetime, Batman! Superheros on TV -- Love beads -- Not your mother's book club: books that shocked -- Part 3. 1970s -- 100 years of RC and model airplanes -- Domino day -- Erector set, tinkertoy and Lincoln Log challenges -- DIY lava lamps and pet rocks -- McDonald's happy meal toys -- Retro crafts: pom-poms, macramé, flower looms, and more -- Tie-dye -- Y.A., why not? The golden age of young adult literature -- Part 4. 1980s -- '80s accessories -- Attack of the Brat Pack -- Ghostbusted -- Graffiti art -- I want my MTV -- Microwave mania -- Pac-Man party -- Rubik's cube challenge -- Strawberry Shortcake, Cabbage Patch Kids, and other hot '80s toys -- Part 5. 1990s -- '90s technology and game night -- Flair fun -- Flannel pillows -- Nickelodeon nostalgia night -- Pop music: boy bands and girl power! -- Riot Grrrl celebration: zine and button making -- Part 6. 2000s -- Cake pops -- Collector con -- Cult movie fest -- Marvel madness -- Reality TV in real life -- Revenge of the nerds -- TR-not-so-L -- Part 7. Pop culture review -- Classic candies by the decade -- Classic cars -- Decades of Disney -- Fashion trendsetters -- Games -- Popular franchises -- Reboot month -- Treats and beats by the decades."This book will engage your library's users through toy-centric events that riff on Everything Barbie, Strawberry Shortcake, Cabbage Patch Kids and more; Poodle Totes, Flannel Pillows, Flair Fun, Graffiti Art, and other DIY projects; video screenings such as I Want My MTV, Nostalgia Nickelodeon Night, Cult Movie Fest, and Marvel Madness; programs that incorporate yummy treats like cake pops, Chex mix, Classic Candies by the Decade, and popular microwaveable foods from the 80s; and themed book discussion groups, board game gatherings, trivia contests, and many more fun programs. Everything old is new again in this delightful collection of programs that will have patrons coming back to your library for more"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Young adults' libraries; Libraries; Popular culture;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Puzzle paradise!. by Playaway Products, LLC,issuing body.(CARDINAL)868990;
Don't know how to solve a Rubik's cube? Cube Puzzle 3 in 1 will teach you how to do it by solving hundreds of variations in this fun and entertaining puzzle!Escape the ancient temples with puzzles that are full of challenges and mystery. This escape room game will surely challenge your problem solving abilities!Are you ready to enter an adorable world of wide-eyed woodland creatures to solve some fun wildlife puzzles?Musaic Box is an unusual combination of musical puzzle and detective! You must solve a riddle and find the old organ master who has vanished! Solving various quests and gathering clues to fit pieces of musical scores together correctly will help lead to unlocking the mystery!Asking questions helps turn curiosity into inquiry! In this activity, children will learn more about different types/ levels of questions by creating an Inquiry Ladder and challenging themselves to think about bigger, essential questions.A challenging logic puzzle that will stimulate the brain and teach spatial concepts and problem solving skills. Form a given shape without overlapping the pieces, collect stars and unlock more challenging shapes.Children will enjoy these fun and challenging puzzles while building logic and problem solving skills.Relax with the familiar game of Solitaire, but with a twist! The unique addition of math puzzles makes the game challengeing in a whole new way. User-friendly controls and customizations makes this a great game for any age.A unique, tactical and challenging game with a strategy all its own! Test logic by untangling all the dots so that no line crosses or overlaps while staying within the allotted number of moves. Each level gets tougher and tougher offering a tricky and fun challenge!Educational video for children to improve their memory with a fun 10-level game where they have to remember the position of the picture they're asked to. They will be given 10 seconds to memorize the number behind which the picture is hidden. Very useful resource for elementary school and preschool education.Unlock the power of problem-solving with mind-bending puzzles, brain teasers, memory games, and more that are all designed to enhance critical thinking skills and foster a love for learning.Ages 8+Grades 3 - 5.
Subjects: Educational games.; Video games.; Puzzles; Problem solving; Memory;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The burial society : a novel / by Sadowsky, Nina,author.(CARDINAL)412239;
"A woman running from a dark past stumbles upon a tangled nest of seductions and secrets in this psychological thriller of obsession and betrayal. Catherine, no last name, doesn't bury the dead. She rescues the living--from intolerable, abusive, dangerous lives. Her darknet-based witness protection program, the Burial Society, is the last hope for people who desperately need to disappear. Catherine takes care of them and provides new identities. She is effective and efficient--until she discovers that her slipup may have compromised a client, maybe even killed her. Powerless to help without exposing her shadowy profession, Catherine makes a drastic move. With her covert service relocated to Paris, Catherine's done her best to move on. But when a dark part of her past suddenly appears in the City of Light, she refuses to run--and her life takes a harrowing turn. Using all the tricks of her unusual trade, Catherine weaves her way through a dangerous landscape of treachery, infidelity, paranoia, and secrets that bind as deeply as blood. But the evil of the enemy she's pursuing runs deeper still--to the bone. And even Catherine's most cunning skills may not be enough to save herself. Advance praise for The Burial Society "A deeply unsettling, compulsively entertaining Rubik's Cube of a novel. Every time you think you've unlocked the puzzle, Nina Sadowsky introduces a new twist that makes you start guessing all over again."--Michelle Richmond, New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog and The Marriage Pact "The Burial Society is a twisty, ever-deeper, can't-let-go read! The heroine can trust no one as she struggles to help abused and endangered women in a world of secrets and shadows. A dynamite psychological thriller by a new master of the genre."--Karen Harper, New York Times bestselling author of Falling Darkness "Addicting and chilling. a smart, sophisticated, terrifying trip to the City of Light."--Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Romance fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Secrecy; Secrecy.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Guinness world records 2018. by Guinness World Records Limited,editor.(CARDINAL)343640;
The record-breaking records annual is back and packed with more incredible accomplishments, stunts, cutting-edge science and amazing sporting achievements than ever before. With more than 3,000 new and updated records and 1,000 eye-popping photos, it has thousands of new stats and facts and dazzling new features. There is so much to explore inside. Go on a whirlwind tour of the planet's most amazing places, from the largest swamps to the deepest points on Earth. Find out what happens when you give an octopus a Rubik's Cube, and why all you need to defend yourself from a crocodile is a rubber band! You'll also find all your favorite records and categories such as Big Stuff, Collections, Mass Participation and Fun with Food, plus the year's most significant sporting achievements. Our editors have also taken inspiration this year from the world of superheroes - both fictional and real-world - so look out for our feature chapter charting your favorite caped crusaders in comic books, TV shows and movies. We also meet the real-life record-breakers with genuine superpowers, such as the Canadian strongman vicar who can pull a jumbo jet and an actual cyborg who uses technology to augment his senses. You'll also learn all about the science of superheroes, such as who the fastest and strongest superheroes would be if they came to life, and who would win in a royal rumble between Superman, Batman, Hulk and Dr Strange! Also new this year is a celebration of the superlative with infographic poster pages that explore the most exciting absolutes, such as the longest, tallest, fastest and heaviest. Does the longest sofa outstretch the longest train? Is the tallest Easter egg bigger than the tallest snowman? Find out in this amazing new edition. You'll also find these special pages available as free poster downloads at guinnessworldrecords.com! From science to showbiz via stunts and sports, there are real-life heroes all around us in all shapes and sizes, achieving the extraordinary every day. There's only one book where you'll find so many amazing facts all in one place, and that's Guinness World Records 2018!. --Amazon.com.NC1350L
Subjects: FAQs.; Curiosities and wonders.; World records.;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 37
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The treasury of family games / by Glenn, Jim,1946-(CARDINAL)518990; Denton, Carey.(CARDINAL)462046;
pt. 1. Board games -- Commercial games -- Apples to apples -- Clue (Cluedo) -- Monopoly -- Risk -- Scrabble -- Trivial pursuit -- Dice games -- Aces in the pot -- Drop dead -- Hearts due -- Help your neighbor -- Pig -- Shut the box -- Yacht -- Domino games -- Dominoes -- All fives (Muggins) -- Bergen -- Blind Hughie -- Five up -- Mah-Jongg -- Race games -- Backgammon -- Chutes and ladders (Snakes and ladders) -- Fox and geese -- Halma -- Ludo -- Strategy games -- Checkers (Draughts) -- Chess -- Shogi (Japanese chess) -- Xiangqi (Chinese chess) -- Territorial games -- Alquerque -- Four field kono -- Go -- Hex -- Horseshoe -- Mill (Nine men's Morris) -- Othello (Reversi) -- Owari -- pt. 2. Card games -- Card games for groups -- Canasta -- Casino -- Contract bridge -- Crazy eights -- Cribbage -- Euchre -- Five hundred -- Gin rummy -- Hearts -- Pinochle -- Scopa -- Slobberhannes -- Whist -- Card games for one -- Clock patience -- The four corners -- Grandfather's clock -- Klondike -- Lovely Lucy -- Monte Carlo -- Ninety-one -- Children's card games -- Beggar my neighbor -- Cheat (I doubt it) -- Concentration (Pelmanism) -- Donkey -- Go boom -- Go fish -- My ship sails -- Old maid -- Rolling stone -- Slapjack -- Snap -- Snip snap snorem (Earl of Coventry) -- Spit (Speed) -- War -- Games of chance -- Blackjack (Twenty-one) -- Michigan (Newmarket) -- Poker -- pt. 3. Party games -- Children's party games -- Blindman's bluff -- Bobbing for apples (Apple ducking) -- Dead lions -- The farmer in the dell -- Guess the smell -- Matchbox race -- Musical chairs -- Oranges and lemons -- Pass the balloon -- Pass the package -- Ring-around-the-rosy (Ring-a-ring-a-roses) -- Simon says -- Squeak, piggy, squeak! -- Statues -- Telephone -- What's on the tray? -- Family party games -- Beetle -- Blow ball -- Dumb crambo -- The game -- In the manner of the word -- Murder in the dark -- Pictionary -- Sardines -- Twister -- Winking -- Old-fashioned parlor games -- Do you love your neighbor? -- Feather -- Follow the leader -- Hot and cold -- Lookabout -- Mummies -- Pass the slipper -- Racing games -- Back-to-back race -- Balloon race -- Egg and spoon race -- Piggyback race -- Potato race -- Relay races -- Sack race -- Three-legged race -- Wheelbarrow race -- Super party games -- Buzz & buzz-fizz -- Dinner party murder mystery -- Good morning, madam -- I have never -- Likes and dislikes --pt. 4. Games to play anywhere -- Games on the go -- Association -- Botticelli -- Definitions -- Earth, water, air -- Five of a kind -- How many words? -- I spy -- License plates -- Rubik's cube -- Twenty questions -- Ten-minute games -- Fingers -- Hangman -- Outlines -- Rock, paper, scissors (Scissors, paper, stone) -- Spoof -- Tic-tac-toe (Noughts and crosses) -- pt. 5. Indoor games -- Games of skill -- Carom billiards -- Cat's cradle -- Darts -- Fivestones -- Foosball (Table football) -- Jacks -- Marbles -- Nok hockey -- Pickup sticks -- Table tennis (Ping pong) -- Tiddlywinks -- Pencil and paper games -- Alphabet race -- Anagrams -- Battleship -- Boxes -- Bridge the word -- Categories -- Century game -- Consequences -- Crossword --Guggenheim (Scattergories) -- Headlines -- Legs - Lotto -- Pictures -- Poetry game -- Quizzes -- Short stories -- Sprouts -- Stairway -- Transformation -- Word and spoken games -- Analogies -- Coffee pot -- The dictionary game -- Forbidden words -- Ghosts -- I love my love -- I packed my bag -- Spelling round -- Taboo -- Who am I? -- pt. 6. Outdoor games -- Active games -- Cat and mouse -- Clapping games -- Dodge ball -- Exchange tag -- Follow the leader -- Fox and rabbit -- Hare and hounds -- Hide and seek -- Hopscotch -- Jump rope (Skipping) -- Juggling -- Leapfrog -- Sevens -- Treasure hunt -- Tug of war -- Sports games -- Badminton -- Baseball -- Cricket -- Croquet -- Football (American) -- Frisbee -- Horseshoe pitching -- Lawn bowls -- Rounders -- Skittles -- Soccer (Football) -- Softball -- Volleyball.
Subjects: Family recreation.; Games.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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