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Failure : poems / by Schultz, Philip.;
Subjects: American poetry.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Failure : poems / by Schultz, Philip.(CARDINAL)718793;
It's Sunday morning in early November -- Talking to ourselves -- Specimen -- The summer people -- The magic kingdom -- Louse Point -- The idea of California -- Kodak Park Athletic Association, 1954 -- Grief -- The absent -- My dog -- The garden -- Exquisite with agony -- Bronze crowd: after Magdalena Abakanowicz -- Why -- My wife -- Husband -- Uncle Sigmund -- The amount of us -- What I like and don't like -- Blunt -- Shellac -- The adventures of 78 Charles Street -- Isaac Babel visits my dreams -- Dance performance -- The traffic -- The truth -- The one truth -- Failure -- The wandering wingless.
Subjects: American poetry.;
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Failure / by Le Feuvre, Lisa.(CARDINAL)350004; Whitechapel Art Gallery.(CARDINAL)152447;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232) and index."Amidst current global uncertainty failure has become a central subject of investigation in recent art. Artists have actively claimed the space of failure to propose a resistant view of the world. Here success is deemed overrated, doubt embraced, experimentation encouraged and risk considered a viable position. Between the poles of success and failure lies a productive space where paradox rules and dogma is refused. This anthology establishes failure as a core concern in contemporary cultural production. Failure is one of a series documenting major themes and ideas in contemporary art."
Subjects: Failure (Psychology) in art.; Arts, Modern; Arts, Modern;
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Failure : why science is so successful / by Firestein, Stuart.(CARDINAL)483865;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The pursuit of science by professional scientists every day bears less and less resemblance to the perception of science by the general public. It is not the rule-based, methodical system for accumulating facts that dominates the public view. Rather it is the idiosyncratic, often bumbling search for understanding in mostly uncharted places. It is full of wrong turns, cul-de-sacs, mistaken identities, false findings, errors of fact and judgment-and the occasional remarkable success. The widespread but distorted view of science as infallible originates in an education system that teaches nothing but facts using very large, very frightening textbooks, and is spread by media that report on discoveries but almost never on process. It is further reinforced by politicians who pay for it and want to use it to determine policy and therefore want it right and, worst of all, sometimes by scientists who learn early on that talking too much about failures and not enough about successes can harm their careers. Failure, then, is a book that seeks to make science more appealing by exposing its faults. In this sequel to Ignorance, Stuart Firestein shows us that scientific enterprise is riddled with failures, and that this is not only necessary but good. Failure reveals how science got its start, when humans began to use a process-trial and error-as a kind of recipe that includes a hefty dose of failure. It gives the non-scientifically trained public an insider's view of how science is actually done, with the aim of making it accessible, comprehensible, and entertaining"--
Subjects: Failure (Psychology); Science; Discoveries in science.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Glorious Failure by Lamson, P.;
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Power failure / by Bova, Ben,1932-2020,author.;
"Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he's learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power. Ross has gathered a great deal, riding in the wake of Frank Tomlinson. But now Tomlinson has decided to shoot for the moon. If they win, they get it all. If they lose, the game is over for Jake Ross."--
Subjects: Political fiction.; Science fiction.; Solar energy; Technology; Politicians; Physicians;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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Heart failure [large print] by Mabry, Richard L.(CARDINAL)774239;
Dr. Carrie Markham's heart broke when her husband died two years ago. Now, with her medical practice taking off, her engagement to paralegal Adam Davidson seems almost too good to be true. Then a drive-by shooting forces him to confess that Adam isn't his real name and that he fled the witness protection program. Carrie is left with an impossible choice: should she abandon this fiancé she doesn't really know, or accept his innocence and help him fight back?
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Large print books.; Romance fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Women physicians;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Heart failure / by Mabry, Richard L.(CARDINAL)774239;
Dr. Carrie Markham's heart was broken by the death of her husband two years ago. Now, just as her medical practice is taking off, her fresh engagement to paralegal Adam Davidson seems almost too good to be true, until a drive by shooting leaves Carrie on the floor of his car with glass falling around her. When he confesses that Adam isn't his real name and that he fled the witness protection program, Carrie is left with an impossible choice: should she abandon the fiance she isn't sure she really knows, or accept his claim of innocence and help him fight back against this faceless menace? While Carrie struggles to decide whether to follow her heart or her head, the threats against them continue to escalate. Her life, as well as Adam's, depends on making the right choice, and the clock is ticking.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Romance fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Fiancées; Man-woman relationships; Witnesses; Women physicians;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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Mechanical failure / by Zieja, Joseph.;
The Two Hundred Years' (and counting) Peace is a time of tranquility that hasn't been seen since...well, never. Mankind in the galactice age have finally conquered war, so what is the military to do but drink and barbecue? That's the kind of military that Sergeant R. Wilson Rogers lived in before he left the fleet to become a smuggler. But times have changed....
Subjects: Science fiction.; War fiction.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Cascade failure / by Sagas, L. M.,author.(CARDINAL)889025;
"There are only three real powers in the Spiral: the corporate power of the Trust versus the Union's labor's leverage. Between them the Guild tries to keep everyone's hands above the table. It ain't easy. Branded a Guild deserter, Jal "accidentally" lands a ride on a Guild ship. Helmed by an AI, with a ship's engineer/medic who doesn't see much of a difference between the two jobs, and a "don't make me shoot you" XO, the Guild crew of the Ambit is a little . . . different. They're also in over their heads. Responding to a distress call from an abandoned planet, they find a mass grave, and a live programmer who knows how it happened. The Trust has plans. This isn't the first dead planet, and it's not going to be the last. Unless the crew of the Ambit can stop it."--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Novels.; Interplanetary voyages; Space flight; Artificial intelligence;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 11
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