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Learning from patients [videorecording] : the science of medicine / by Vogelstein, Bert.; Zoghbi, Huda.; Howard Hughes Medical Institute.(CARDINAL)274867; Sutherland Media Productions.(CARDINAL)332483;
Disc 1. Lecture 1. Research mechanics : putting the brakes on cancer / Bert Vogelstein -- Lecture 2. Chaos to cure : basic research to patients / Bert Vogelstein -- Lecture 3. A healthy nervous system : a delicate balance / Huda Y. Zoghbi -- Lecture 4. The strength of families : solving Rett syndrome / Huda Y. Zoghbi. -- Disc 2. Special features.Ann DeStefano Sutherland, producer ; Wally Ashby, director.Lecturers, Bert Vogelstein, Huda Y. Zoghbi ; introductions by Thomas Cech, Peter Bruns, and Dennis Liu.Webcast live on December 4-5, 2003, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland.Medical researchers discuss how working with patients has influenced their efforts to understand and treat cancers and neurological disorders.DVD format.
Subjects: Cancer; Cerebellar ataxia; Medicine; Physician and patient.; Rett syndrome; Biomedical Research.; Neoplasms; Rett Syndrome; Spinocerebellar Ataxias;

First meetings : in Ender's universe / by Card, Orson Scott.(CARDINAL)139243; Card, Orson Scott.Polish boy.(CARDINAL)613488; Card, Orson Scott.Teacher's pest.(CARDINAL)621402; Card, Orson Scott.Ender's game.(CARDINAL)684456; Card, Orson Scott.Investment counselor.(CARDINAL)613254;
The Polish boy -- Teacher's pest -- Ender's game -- Investment counselor.First Meetings is a collection of three novellas-plus the original "Enders Game"-that journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin. "The Polish Boy" begins in the wake between the first two Bugger Wars when the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. In John Paul Wiggin-the future father of Ender-they believe they may have found their man. Or boy. In "Teacher's Pest"-a novella written especially for this collection-a brilliant but insufferably arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now an American university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student named Theresa Brown. It is many years since the end of the Bugger Wars in "The Investment Counselor." Ender's reputation as a hero and savior has suffered a horrible reversal. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive. Until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xenocide.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Science fiction, American.; Short stories, American.; Science fiction.; Wiggin, Ender (Fictitious character); Children's stories, American.; Wiggin, John Paul (Fictitious character) ;

Salvation. [videorecording] by Cabrera, Santiago,actor.; Finnigan, Jennifer,1979-actor.; Rowe, Charlie,actor.; CBS DVD (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)544739;
disc one. Fall out ; D©♭tente ; Crimes and punishment ; Indivisible -- Disc two. White house down ; Let the chips fall ; The madness of King Tanz ; Abre sus ojos ; The Manchurian candidate -- disc three. Prisoners ; Celebration day ; Hail marry ; Get ready ; gag reel.Santiago Cabrera, Jennifer Finnigan, Charlie Rowe.An asteroid will strike the Earth in six months there will be worldwide ramifications. Season two shows people with different reactions to the impending doom while offering ideas to prevent the strike.Not rated.DVD, region 1, NTSC; wide screen (16:9); Dolby 5.1.
Subjects: Television programs.; Television series.; Action and adventure television programs.; Science fiction television programs.; Thrillers (Television programs); Graduate students; Asteroids; Conspiracies; Billionaires;

Eve / by Carey, Anna.(CARDINAL)563626;
In 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus has wiped out most of the earth's population, Eve discovers the terrible fate that awaits students when they graduate from their all-girls school, and she sets off on a treacherous journey into the wilds of The New America, searching for a place where she can survive.760LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Escapes; Orphans; Science fiction; Survival;

Singer distance / by Chatagnier, Ethan,author.;
"In December 1960, Rick Hayworth drives his genius girlfriend, Crystal, and three other MIT grad students across the country to paint a message in the desert. Mars has been silent for thirty years, since the last time Earth solved one of the mathematical proofs the Martian civilization carved onto its surface. The latest proof, which seems to assert contradictory truths about distance, has resisted human understanding for decades. Crystal thinks she's solved it, and Rick is intent on putting her answer to the test--if he can keep her from cracking under the pressure on the way. But Crystal's disappearance after the experiment will set him on a different path than he expected, forever changing the distance between them. Filled with mystery, wonder, and life-changing discoveries, Ethan Chatagnier's Singer Distance is a novel about ambition, loneliness, friendship, exploration, and love--about how far we're willing to go to communicate with a civilization on Mars, and the great lengths we'll travel to connect with each other here on Earth" --
Subjects: Mathematical fiction.; Science fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Alternative histories (Fiction); Novels.; Graduate students; Disappeared persons; Martians;

Classical sociological theory : rediscovering the promise of sociology / by Goodwin, Glenn A.(CARDINAL)475420; Scimecca, Joseph A.(CARDINAL)731074;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Roots of sociology, morals, and science -- August Comte (1798-1857) -- Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) -- Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) -- Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) -- Georg Simmel (1858-1918) -- Max Weber (1864-1920) -- George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) -- Jane Addams (1860-1935) -- William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) De Bois (1868-1963) -- Classical American sociology and the promise of sociology -- Glossary of terms.[This book] reflects sixty-plus years of experience teaching required undergraduate and graduate courses on classical sociological theory. It is a subject matter that both [authors] continue to feel passionately about, and one that [they] feel currently lakcs a text that can both create a similar passion for classical theory in students and present the substantive ideas of the founding men and women of sociology.... [This] text overcomes these limitations. -Pref.
Subjects: Biographies.; Sociology; Sociology; Sociologists;

This is how we end things : a novel / by Jacobs, R. J.,author.(CARDINAL)797076;
"When one of them is discovered dead after an experiment, everything the group thought they knew about deception crumbles... Campus is empty, a winter storm is blowing in, and someone is lurking in the shadows, waiting for their chance to kill again. Forest, North Carolina. Under the instruction of enigmatic Professor Joe Lyons, five graduate students are studying the tedious science behind the acts of lying. But discovering the secrets of deception isn't making any of the student's more honest though. Instead, it's making it easier for them to guard their own secrets - and they all have something to hide. When a test goes awry and one of them is found dead, the students find themselves trapped by a snowstorm on an abandoned campus with a local detective on the case. As harbored secrets begin to break the surface, the graduates must find out who's lying, who isn't, and who may have been capable of committing murder. It turns out deception is even more dangerous than they thought... A foreboding new dark academia thriller of deception and suspense, This is How it Ends follows the unraveling of a close group of students as they contend with what it means to lie, and be lied to."--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Campus fiction.; Novels.; Truthfulness and falsehood; Graduate students; Murder;

The return / by Helmreich, Joseph,1983-author.(CARDINAL)487768;
"During a live television broadcast on the night of a lunar eclipse, renowned astrophysicist Andrew Leland is suddenly lifted into the sky by a giant spacecraft and taken away for all to see. Six years later, he turns up, wandering in a South American desert, denying ever having been abducted and disappearing from the public eye. Meanwhile, he inspires legions of cultish devotees, including a young physics graduate student named Shawn Ferris who is obsessed with finding out what really happened to him. When Shawn finally tracks Leland down, he discovers that he's been on the run for years, continuously hunted by a secret organization that has pursued him across multiple continents, determined to force him into revealing what he knows. Shawn soon joins Leland on the run. Though Leland is at first reluctant to reveal anything, Shawn will soon learn the truth about his abduction, the real reason for his return, and will find himself caught up in a global conspiracy that puts more than just one planet in danger" --
Subjects: Science fiction.; Human-alien encounters; Alien abduction;

Dissolution / by Gear, W. Michael,author.;
For anthropology graduate student Sam Delgado, headed to the wilds of Wyoming, this is his last chance to save his graduate career. He and his urban classmates see this as the adventure of a lifetime: They are going to horse-pack in the wilderness to map and test a high-altitude archaeological site. Until a cyber-attack collapses the American banking system, and an already fractured nation descends into anarchy and chaos. All credit frozen, Sam and his archaeological field school is trapped in their high-altitude camp. With return to the East impossible, Sam, the woman he has come to love, and the rest of the students must rely on hard-bitten Wyoming ranchers for their very survival. Guided only by an illusive Shoshone spirit helper, Sam will discover the meaning of self-sacrifice. Even at the cost of his life. Haunting, provoking, frightening and prescient - in the end, all that stands between civilization and barbarism is one young man's courage and belief in himself. ٢Gear is a master when it comes to vividly described settings: you can smell the smoke, hear the wind in the trees, and feel the cold. --
Subjects: Survival fiction.; Science fiction.; Apocalyptic fiction.; Fiction.; Western fiction.; Novels.; College students; Terrorism;

Sedimentary rocks in the field : a color guide / by Stow, D. A. V.(Dorrik A. V.)(CARDINAL)319283;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-300) and index.Overview -- Field techniques -- Principal characteristics of sedimentary rocks -- Conglomerates -- Sandstones -- Mudrocks -- Carbonate rocks -- Cherts and siliceous sediments -- Phosphorites -- Coal and oil -- Evaporites -- Ironstones -- Soils, paleosols, and duricrusts -- Volcaniclastic sediments -- Interpretations and depositional environments."Ideas and concepts in sedimentology are changing rapidly, but field work and data collection remain the basis of the science. This book is intended as a guide to the recognition and description of sedimentary rocks in the field. It aims to help students and professional geologists know what to observe and record, and how best to interpret this data. The emphasis is on illustrating the principal types of sedimentary rocks, which is accomplished through more than 450 color photos and explanatory drawings. The introductory chapter defines the main types of sedimentary rocks, their classification, and their economic significance. The author then goes on to describe standard field techniques and provides a comprehensive summary of the principal characteristics of sedimentary rocks. Additional chapters cover each of the main rock types and describe how to interpret rocks and their features in terms of depositional environments." "This book is an ideal field companion for undergraduate and graduate students of geology, environmental sciences, hydrogeology, oceanography, and more. Professionals in petroleum geology and resource management, as well as budding geologists, will also find this to be an indispensable reference."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Sedimentary rocks.; Petrology;

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