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"In this new collection of bite-size pop science essays, bestselling author, chemistry professor, and radio broadcaster Dr. Joe Schwarcz shows that you can find science virtually anywhere you look. And the closer you look, the more fascinating it becomes. In this volume, we look through our magnifying glass at maraschino cherries, frizzy hair, duct tape, pickle juice, yellow school buses, aphrodisiacs, dental implants, and bull testes. If those don't...
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PACKT Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Companies such as Facebook, Amazon, and Google spend large amounts of money on digital marketing to spread the word about their products and to build brand loyalty. Apart from big companies, small companies too are following the trend and spending money on websites, search advertising, social media advertising, and email campaigns. With this surge in digital marketing, the work of data and digital analysts has become more important than ever. This...
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Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged and the perfect location to host reunions for the Rochford Institute. Rochford boasts only the best: the wealthiest, most promising students with the most impressive pedigrees. Complete with space walks, these lavish reunions are a prime opportunity for alumni to jockey for power with old friends and rivals--and crucially, to advance their applications...
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Roswell Johnson volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A boy must team up with a group of quirky aliens to save Earth"--
5) Musher
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PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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A film about the lives of four sled dog racers (mushers) and their dogs. What it means to be a musher, and what it takes to be a sled dog, is revealed over the course of a year as they all wait out summer so they can train for the coming winter’s races. The film also explores the role of women in the sport, as dog mushing is one of just a few sports where men and women compete together.
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Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Tails with tales to tell! In a consumerist society where everything, including man’s best friend, is treated as disposable, everyday people aiding stray dogs remind us what being human(e) is all about and inspire us to make a difference.
7) Dogsville
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Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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A tale of love and triumph in dog sports. Crocodile Crunch, a rescue mutt, excels in agility with Radical Rabbit and Posh Piranha. They challenge purebreds at the Agility World Championship, proving talent conquers privilege.
8) Equimedian
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"Jason Velez lives a mundane existence installing EmuX virtual reality machines, scraping together just enough money to pay for his increasingly unsustainable science fiction collection, when he begins having strange dreams. He knows he has to make some personal changes if he hopes to get his life in order. Except change is exactly what's happening to those around him. His roommate's personality suddenly shifts. Jill, his closest single friend, retroactively...
9) My Mercury
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A24
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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This is the story of Yves Chesselet, a 28-year-old conservationist and wild spirit, who leaves behind the pleasures and comforts of modern life to live on a remote island with only birds for company. Mercury Island, off the coast of Namibia, becomes the centre of Yves’ world as he makes a cruel pact with nature to wrest 15,000 seals off the island and return it to the critically endangered seabirds of the South Atlantic. The moral dilemma that ensues...
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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The advent of electronic music in the 20th century was a radical break from all musical traditions that came before it. Narrated by legendary multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, Lisa Rovner’s superb SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS showcases the music of and rare interviews with female electronic pioneers Clara Rockmore, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Éliane Radigue, Maryanne Amacher, Bebe Barron, Suzanne Ciani, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, and Wendy...
11) Heavenbreaker
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The illegitimate daughter of a commoner and a duke, Synali von Hauteclare, survives an attack by an assassin hired by her father and plans her revenge by riding and fighting on a giant robot.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Supernovae come in several types, based primarily on their spectra. This lecture focuses on the important, hydrogen-deficient subclass called Type Ia, in which a white dwarf robs gas from its companion star and then becomes violently unstable.
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The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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The unexpected finding that the Universe is expanding at an ever-faster rate lends support for the existence of a non-zero cosmological constant, a formerly discredited idea of Einstein's, which he once called his "biggest blunder."
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