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4 film favorities: urban action collection : Black belt Jones, Hot potato, Black Samson, Three the hard way. by Clouse, Robert.(DLC)n 87915271; Williams, Oscar.(DLC)n 2005175902; Bail, Charles.(local)tlcaut20258230899500; Parks, Gordon. Jr.(local)tlcaut20258298566300; Omni Pictures Corporation.(local)tlcaut20258439345800; Warner Home Videodistributor.(local)tlcaut5030716005288600;
Jim Kelly, Gloria Hendry, George Memmoli, Geoffry Benney, Irene Tsu, Judith Brown, Rockne Tarkington, William Smith, Connie Strickland, Carol Speed, Michael Payne, Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Sheila Frazier."4 action icons take it to the bad guys big time!" -- Container.Disk 1: Black Belt Jones (85 min.), Hot potato (87 min.); Disk 2: Black Samson (88 min.), Three the hard way (90 min.).Rated R and PG.
Subjects: Feature films.; Action and adventure films.; Martial arts.; Massive Arsenals.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Red phoenix burning / by Bond, Larry,author.; Carlson, Chris,author.;
"North Korea has one of the world's largest standing armies, capable of unleashing a massive arsenal of chemical and nuclear weapons. With an unstable government, under absolute dictator Kim Jong-un. North Korea more closely resembles an organized crime ring than a real nation-state. Millions live on the edge of starvation while Pyongyang's ruthless generals, crooked bureaucrats, and vicious secret police wage a covert war against each other to expand their rival fiefdoms. Red Phoenix Burning explores the implosion of this corrupt regime--a coup that triggers a bloody civil war among the North's brutal factions. The world is dragged into a violent and rapidly widening confrontation amid North Korea's shattered ruins, bringing it to the edge of an all-out war that could engulf the entire civilized world."--Container.
Subjects: War fiction.; Korean War, 1950-1953;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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America's war for the greater Middle East : a military history / by Bacevich, Andrew J.,author.(CARDINAL)753262;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-432) and index.Preliminaries. War of choice ; Gearing up ; Arsenal of theocracy ; Silver screen six Is calling ; Mad dog, kicked, bites back ; Rescuing evil ; No clean ending -- Entr'acte. Good Intentions ; Balkan digression ; What winning means ; Phony war -- Main card. Changing the way they live ; Kicking down the door ; How this ends ; Government In a box ; Entropy ; Iraq, again ; Generational war.A critical assessment of America's foreign policy in the Middle East throughout the past four decades evaluates and connects regional engagements since 1990 while revealing their massive costs.
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 12
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Incendiary / by Cleave, Chris.(CARDINAL)471797;
A massive terrorist attack on Arsenal's new stadium - a woman grieving for her husband and son - a first novel to set the literary world alight... Angry, funny, controversial and unpredictable, Incendiary will be one of the most talked-about books of 2005. Not since Alex Garland's The Beach has a debut novel used such compulsive storytelling to convey a distopian vision of moral degradation. Not since Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked Into Doors has a male writer created such a powerful female voice. From her first sentence, Cleave's narrator seduces the reader with her biting, deadpan wit, her no-nonsense attitude and her love for her son. Over the next 250 pages we must watch her suffer. Eleven suicide bombers turn the stadium into an inferno during an Arsenal-Chelsea match. Her husband and four-year-old son are blown to smithereens. She is left with an empty ex-Council flat in Bethnal Green and nothing to live for. And so she writes Osama Bin Laden a letter to tell him just what she thinks, a letter that takes the reader into a frightening maze of class-bound relationships - and right to the dark heart of a London under siege. A unique, twisted powerhouse of a novel, Incendiary has had readers staying up all night to finish it, then up half the next night arguing about it. Not since Martin Amis has a writer pinned a generation down on a mat like this and refused to allow it up till it admits it's rotten.
Subjects: Epistolary fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Loss (Psychology); Suicide bombings; Terrorism victims' families; Terrorism; Widows; Working class families; Working class women;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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The Matrix revolutions [videorecording] / by Alice, Mary,1941-actor.; Bellucci, Monica,1968-actor.(CARDINAL)680977; Bliss, Ian,actor.; Davis, Essie,actor.; Fishburne, Laurence,III,1961-actor.(CARDINAL)434940; Moss, Carrie-Anne,1970-actor.(CARDINAL)346335; Perrineau, Harold,actor.(CARDINAL)848166; Reeves, Keanu,actor.(CARDINAL)341233; Silver, Joel,film producer.(CARDINAL)762094; Smith, Jada Pinkett,1971-actor.(CARDINAL)527960; Wachowski, Andy,1967-film director,screenwriter.; Wachowski, Lana,1965-film director,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)350144; Weaving, Hugo,1960-actor.(CARDINAL)807350; NPV Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)786437; Silver Pictures.(CARDINAL)534310; Village Roadshow Pictures.(CARDINAL)340620; Warner Bros.; Warner Home Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)218485;
MARCIVE 03/01/06Director of photography, Bill Pope ; editor, Zach Staenberg ; original music, Don Davis ; costume designer, Kym Barrett ; production designer, Owen Paterson ; visual effects supervisors, John Clinton [and others] ; special effects supervisor, Steve Courtley.Mary Alice, Monica Bellucci, Ian Bliss, Essie Davis, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Harold Perrineau, Jada Pinkett Smith, Keanu Reeves, Hugo Weaving, Lambert Wilson.Neo remains unconscious in the real world, caught in a mysterious subway station that lies between the machine world and the matrix. Bane is still a conduit for Agent Smith, who continues to grow more out of control. Meanwhile, the sentinels are coming dangerously close to Zion. Trinity and Morpheus bargain with The Merovingian to free Neo. Neo, after meeting The Oracle, decides he must leave Zion and go for the machine mainframe. One final battle must ensue, and the future of both races is at stake.MPAA rating: R; for sci-fi violence and some sexuality.DVD, Region 1, widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; 5.1 Dolby Digital surround, dual-layer.
Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Computer systems; Computers;
Available copies: 34 / Total copies: 51
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Cable. by Robinson, James,1963-author.(CARDINAL)689612; C̦inar, Yildiray,1976-illustrator.(CARDINAL)564861; Aburto, Jesus,colorist.(CARDINAL)490454; Blee, Federico,inker.(CARDINAL)603048; Fonteriz, Rafael,inker.(CARDINAL)797968; Pacheco, Carlos,1961-2022,illustrator.(CARDINAL)345844; Petit, Cory,letterer.(CARDINAL)340459; Sabino, Joe,letterer.(CARDINAL)345420; Sanchez Almara, Dono,inker.(CARDINAL)618085; Silas, Thony,1986-illustrator,inker.(CARDINAL)611150;
Speak softly - and carry a huge gun! Cable, everyone's favorite time-traveling, cyborgarmed walking mutant arsenal, is embarking on a brand-new mission...with all of time in the balance! When Cable picks up the trail of a threat in the timestream, he sets off on a highspeed, history-spanning chase to save reality as we know it. From prehistory to the modern day, whether it's a six-gun duel at high noon or a sword fight high above the kingdom, Cable is the only man who can keep history from unraveling! The fate of all reality rests on his massive shoulderpads...and that's exactly the way he likes it!
Subjects: Action and adventure comics.; Comics (Graphic works); Fiction.; Graphic novels.; Superhero comics.; Cable (Fictitious character); Cyborgs; Imaginary wars and battles;
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The right to repair : reclaiming the things we own / by Perzanowski, Aaron,author.(CARDINAL)413400;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Why repair matters -- The history of repair -- Breaking repair -- Repair and intellectual property -- Repair and competition -- Repair and consumer protection -- Rebuilding repair -- Epilogue."In recent decades, companies around the world have deployed an arsenal of tools-including IP law, hardware design, software restrictions, pricing strategies, and marketing messages-to prevent consumers from fixing the things they own. While this strategy has enriched companies almost beyond measure, it has taken billions of dollars out of the pockets of consumers and imposed massive environmental costs on the planet. In The Right to Repair, Aaron Perzanowski analyzes the history of repair to show how we've arrived at this moment, when a battle over repair is being waged-largely unnoticed-in courtrooms, legislatures, and administrative agencies. With deft, lucid prose, Perzanowski explains the opaque and complex legal landscape that surrounds the right to repair and shows readers how to fight back"--
Subjects: Consumer goods; Consumer goods;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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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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The iron sea : how the Allies hunted and destroyed Hitler's warships / by Read, Simon,1974-author.(CARDINAL)548852;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: The killing seas -- In search of prey -- Cataclysm -- The hunted -- Avenged -- Cerberus -- Chariot -- Dogs of war -- Leath passage -- Arctic fire -- Target: Tirpitz -- X-craft -- "Hell on earth" -- Return to Tirpitz -- Epilogue: The sea is a mass grave."The sea had become a mass grave by 1941 as Hitler's four capital warships--Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Tirpitz, and Bismarck, the largest warship on the ocean--roamed the wind-swept waves, threatening the Allied war effort and sending thousands of men to the icy depths of the North Atlantic. Bristling with guns and steeled in heavy armor, these reapers of the sea could outrun and outgun any battleship in the Allied arsenal. The deadly menace kept Winston Churchill awake at night he deemed them "targets of supreme consequence." The campaign against Hitler's surface fleet would continue into the dying days of World War II and involve everything from massive warships engaged in bloody, fire-drenched battle to daring commando raids in German occupied harbors. This is the fast-paced story of the Allied bomber crews, brave sailors, and bold commandos who "sunk the Bismarck" and won a hard-fought victory over Hitler's iron sea. Using official war diaries, combat reports, eyewitness accounts and personal letters, Simon Read brings the action and adventure to vivid life. The result is an enthralling and gripping story of the Allied heroes who fought on a watery battlefield"--
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10
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Days of sadness, years of triumph; the American people, 1939-1945. by Perret, Geoffrey.(CARDINAL)162508;
Bibliography: pages 481-496.Part I. The time between -- It is war -- To arms! -- Miracle at Philadelphia..sort of -- Quarrel at a crossroads -- Creating a defense economy -- Year of meteors! Brooding year! -- Who's hysterical? -- Knowledge is power -- The meaning of it all -- Life goes on -- Negroes, blacks and "persons of color" -- Isolation and rediscovery of Latin America -- Action in the North Atlantic -- "Arsenal of democracy" -- And so to war -- Part II: the most incredible year -- Pearl Harbor Christmas -- What news from the front? -- We lose, they pay -- What can I do? -- Life and leisure in wartime -- Turnabout, turnabout -- Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds -- Onto the offensive -- Part III: The remaking of a nation -- New horizons -- Turn to the right -- Economics of war and peace -- Black man, brown man -- Social welfare, the American way -- The civil liberties disaster -- Wartime school days -- Life, literature and leisure; art, architecture and aviation -- Winding down a miracle -- America first ... everywhere -- Science works its wonders -- Past and present.A "re-creation of the social, political, and economic texture of those times." "Includes birth of civil rights movement, first massive infusion of federal aid in social welfare system, total restructuring of our educational system, liberation of women into the labor force and a basic redistribution of income.".
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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