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The invisible library / by Cogman, Genevieve,author.(CARDINAL)618141;
Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative London. Their mission: Retrieve a particularly dangerous book. The problem: By the time they arrive, it's already been stolen. London's underground factions are prepared to fight to the death to find the tome before Irene and Kai do, a problem compounded by the fact that this world is chaos-infested--the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic to run rampant. To make matters worse, Kai is hiding something--secrets that could be just as volatile as the chaos-filled world itself. Now Irene is caught in a puzzling web of deadly danger, conflicting clues, and sinister secret societies. And failure is not an option--because it isn't just Irene's reputation at stake, it's the nature of reality itself.... --
Subjects: Alternative histories (Fiction); Action and adventure fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Librarians; Rare books; Secret societies;

Paper wheels [sound recording] / by Anastasio, Trey.;
Performed by Trey Anastasio.
Subjects: Alternative rock music.; Rock music;

Ghosts of the tsunami : death and life in Japan's disaster zone / by Lloyd Parry, Richard,author.(CARDINAL)348321;
The school beneath the wave -- Maps -- Having gone, I will come -- Where are the children? -- Jigoku -- Area of search -- Abundant nature -- The mud -- The old and the young -- Explanations -- Ghosts -- What it's all about? -- What happened at Okawa -- Last hour of the old world -- Inside the tsunami -- The river of three crossings -- The invisible monster -- In the web -- What use is the truth? -- The tsunami is not water -- Predestination -- The rough, steep path -- There may be gaps in memory -- Gone altogether beyond -- Consolation of the spirits -- Save don't fall to sea -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index.Includes bibliographical references and index.On March 11, 2011, a 120-foot-high tsunami smashed into the northeast coast of Japan, leaving more than eighteen thousand people dead. It was Japan's single greatest loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. Ghosts of the Tsunami is the intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the perspectives of those who lived through it.
Subjects: Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.; Tsunamis;

The invisible library [large print] / by Cogman, Genevieve,author.(CARDINAL)618141;
"Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative London. Their mission: Retrieve a particularly dangerous book. The problem: By the time they arrive, it's already been stolen. London's underground factions are prepared to fight to the death to find the tome before Irene and Kai do, a problem compounded by the fact that this world is chaos-infested--the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic to run rampant. To make matters worse, Kai is hiding something--secrets that could be just as volatile as the chaos-filled world itself. Now Irene is caught in a puzzling web of deadly danger, conflicting clues, and sinister secret societies. And failure is not an option--because it isn't just Irene's reputation at stake, it's the nature of reality itself." --
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Alternative histories (Fiction); Fantasy fiction.; Large print books.; Librarians; Rare books; Secret societies;

Night vision / by White, Randy Wayne,author.(CARDINAL)351962;
BooklistLibrary Journal web onlyPub WeeklyBooklist, January 2011Library Journal web only, January 2011Pub Weekly, December 2010The manager of a trailer park inhabited mostly by illegal laborers discovers that a teenage girl, believed to have a special gift, witnessed him committing murder, and as he searches for the girl to make sure she cannot tell anyone, Doc Ford, a marine biologist, tries to find her in an underground, invisible nation so that he can save her.AdultAdult
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Ford, Doc (Fictitious character); Ford, Doc (Fictitious character); Marine biologists; Shetlar, Amanda.; Shetlar, Charles.;

The extreme searcher's Internet handbook : a guide for the serious searcher / by Hock, Randolph,1944-(CARDINAL)213437;
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Directories.; Internet searching; Web search engines; Computer network resources; Web sites; Internet addresses;

Teaching Web search skills : techniques and strategies of top trainers / by Notess, Greg R.(CARDINAL)208677;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-326)and index.1. Web searching and the teaching paradox -- Online searching background -- Internet information growth -- Origins of the Web -- Instructional background -- The teaching connection -- Teaching simplicity -- The state of Web searching today -- Changing patterns -- 2. Understanding our audience -- General audience characteristics -- Novices -- Know-it-alls -- Experienced users -- Pairing strategies for hands-on workshops -- Audience assessment -- Navigation versus search confusion -- Remembering what we did not know -- Box confusion -- Address confusion -- Button confusion -- Browser differences and problems -- Operating system and hardware issues -- Adaptability and change -- 3. Choosing the instructional session type -- Hands-on sessions -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Facilities -- Planning -- Exercises -- Lecture and demonstration sessions -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Facilities -- Planning -- Semi-online tutorials -- Capturing a screen shot within PowerPoint -- Course coverage and distance education -- Other settings and approaches --10. The search engines -- The starting point -- Ask -- Exalead -- Gigablast -- Google -- MSN search -- Windows Live -- Yahoo! -- Directories -- 11. Creating a framed workshop Web page -- Advantages and disadvantages of frames -- Frames code and explanation -- Top page with frameset -- Left frame table of contents -- Content pages -- Exercise pages frame set -- Exercise one top frame : JavaScript and a form -- Other exercise pages -- Solutions for frame breakers -- 12. Presentation tips, tricks, and shortcuts -- Keyboard shortcuts -- General Windows shortcuts -- Browser shortcut keys -- Shortcuts for filling out forms -- Other shortcuts -- Quick links and the personal toolbar -- Bookmarklets -- Zapping images, animations, and more -- Bookmarklets for Web searching -- The pop-up presence -- The shortcut advantage -- 13. Tales from the trenches : anecdotes, examples, and exercises -- Analogies, sayings, and terminology tales -- Boolean examples -- Exercises -- Unexpected answers -- Limitations of search engines -- Failures -- Facilities failures -- The team teaching danger -- Web site instruction and the Web searching paradox -- Lost interest -- Formulas for success -- Afterword -- Appendix A. The trainers : introduction to the interviewees -- Appendix B. Sample handouts and other training material -- Appendix C. URL list.4. Online tutorials : friend or foe? -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Issues with online tutorials for Web searching -- Search engine inconsistencies -- Search feature changes -- Databases changes -- Online tutorial examples -- Web search guide tutorial : research, Web searching -- Finding information on the Internet : a tutorial -- Internet tutorials -- LearnAndGo, searching the Web -- Quick tutorial on searching the Internet -- Net.TUTOR : using Web search tools -- Interactive tutorials : Internet search tips and mouse exercise -- Tutorial : site clustering and filtering -- The information cycle -- Information literacy online tutorials -- Finding tutorials -- Tutorials : worth the effort? -- 5. Organization : focus, length, and goals -- Primary session focus -- Pure Web searching -- Basic Internet training -- Advanced Internet training -- Part of multiple sessions -- Course-integrated bibliographic instruction -- Session length -- Variations in length -- Ideal length -- The burnout paradox -- Goal setting -- A collection of goals -- How many main goals? -- Specific objectives -- Bringing it all together --6. Terminology -- Importance of terminology -- Definitions -- Search engine -- Directory -- Portal -- Metasearch engine -- Ad bidding engine -- Answer engine -- Metasite -- News search engine -- Opinion engine -- Site search engine -- Invisible Web -- Other terminology distinctions -- Final thoughts on terminology -- 7. Content : Web search features -- Search features -- Phrase searching -- Boolean searching -- Truncation -- Field searching -- Limits -- Stop words and case sensitivity -- Sorting -- The teaching choice -- 8. Content : primary concepts -- Research process -- Question analysis -- Using more than one search tool -- Search engines versus directories -- Evaluation -- Which primary concepts to teach -- Recent changes in teaching topics -- Additional concepts to consider -- Identifying ads -- Understanding Web addresses (or URLs) -- Understanding databases -- Teaching change -- 9. Additional content : image searching, news, Usenet, and more -- News -- Usenet newsgroups and opinions -- Pictures and images -- Multimedia -- Phone numbers -- Bibliographic databases -- Subject-specific sites -- Invisible Web -- The lost obvious --This comprehensive and readable guide presents a variety of approaches to instructional design and methodology, lists a range of essential training resources, and features dozen of helpful figures, search screens, worksheets handouts, and sample training materials.
Subjects: Internet searching;

Einstein's telescope : the hunt for dark matter and dark energy in the universe / by Gates, Evalyn.(CARDINAL)493684;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-289) and index.What is the universe made of? -- A revolution in space and time -- A cosmic expansion -- Einstein's telescope -- MACHOs and WIMPs -- Black holes and planets -- Weighing the universe -- Cold dark matter -- Tracing the invisible-- and finding dark matter -- An accelerating universe -- The imprint of dark energy on the cosmic web -- Gravity waves -- Epilogue : Dark matter and dark energy : keys to the next revolution.Evalyn Gates transports us to the edge of science to explore the tool that unlocks the secrets of dark matter and dark energy. Based on the theory of general relativity, gravitational lensing, or 'Einstein's Telescope', is enabling discoveries that are taking us towards the next revolution in scientific thinking--one that may change our understanding of where the Universe came from and where it is going.
Subjects: Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955; Dark matter (Astronomy); Dark energy (Astronomy); Gravitational waves.; Relativity (Physics);

Jiu-jitsu unleashed : a comprehensive guide to the world's hottest martial arts discipline / by Bravo, Eddie.(CARDINAL)473516; Krauss, Erich,1971-(CARDINAL)545563;
Subjects: Jiu-jitsu.;

Silent witness. [videorecording] / by Appleton, Dudi,screenwriter.; Keeble, Jim,screenwriter.; Parish, Priscilla,television producer.; Hannah, John,actor.; Omoshaybi, Aki,actor.; Staar, Leo,actor.; BBC Studios,publisher.(CARDINAL)815832;
John Hannah, Aki Omoshaybi, Leo Staar, Alastair Michael, Rhiannon May, Emilia Fox, David Caves.Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program in 2024.Led by pathologist Dr Nikki Alexander and forensic scientist Jack Hodgson, no case is ever the same for the investigators. A serial killer resurfaces, death stalks a campus, a mummified woman rocks a community, bodies are found entombed underground and deep fakes obscure the truth. As the team use their expertise to unlock the mysterious deaths and help police solve some of their most chilling cases, they are tested to their very limits.English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).DVD, wide screen; stereo.
Subjects: Television crime shows.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Television programs.; Criminal investigation; Forensic pathologists; Forensic pathology;

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