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Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 19 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Portuguese
Description
With the colonization of BrazilÕs Mid-West in the 1950s and the construction of the Transamazônica and other highways in the 1970s, whites began to make large-scale contact with Indians, with disastrous results. Epidemics decimated populations of groups such as the Cinta-Larga, with the deaths amounting in some cases to veritable genocide.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 45 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This film illustrates the field techniques used by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Michigan in collaboration with their Venezuelan colleagues. The film describes the team's objectives - to understand the Yanomamo population structure in genetic and social terms - and the methods used in obtaining data.
43) Killer flu
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The video discusses the 1918 flu pandemic, its deadly consequences and the possibility that a similar strain could occur today.
Author
Series
Walking Dead collections (hardcover) volume 8
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rick and his group rebuild from the events of No way out, and learn that maybe they can take part in a larger world.
45) Parasocial
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fading genre-TV actor collides with an obsessed fan at a convention in the middle of a pandemic. Over the course of the insane, horrific night that follows, the actor will have to put on the greatest performance of his life simply to survive until dawn. Unless, of course, he's the real monster..."--
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
xviii, 299, [2] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcolm Gladwell, The Ghost Map is a riveting page-turner about a real-life historical hero, Dr. John Snow. It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure—garbage removal, clean water, sewers—necessary to support its rapidly expanding population, the city has become the...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17-year-old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women...
48) Breach
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.
49) Mimic
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A team of scientists discover a miracle cure that stops the spread of a deadly disease...only to find three years later that something has gone terribly wrong! Their creation has taken on a horrifying life of its own...able to mimic and destroy its every predator - even man! And now, it threatens to wipe out an entire city...unless they stop it in time.
Author
Series
Wanderers volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 782 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. In the tradition of The Stand and Station Eleven comes a gripping saga that weaves an epic tapestry of humanity into an astonishing tale of survival. Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is...
51) Contagion
Author
Series
Dark matter trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition
Physical Desc
409 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A scientific experiment goes wrong, and a deadly epidemic sweeps through Scotland. Callie might have survives the disease, but she didn't survive the treatment. She was kidnapped and experimented upon at a secret lab, one that works with antimatter. When she broke free of her prison, she unleashed a wave of destruction. Callie's brother Kai is looking for her, along with his friend Shay, who has been infected and is beginning to change. Now they're...
52) The painted veil
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2019
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[Blu-ray/DVD edition]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (73 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Tito is a shy ten-year-old boy who lives with his mother. Suddenly, an unusual epidemic starts to spread, making people sick whenever they get scared. Tito quickly discovers that the cure is somehow related to his missing father's research on bird song. He embarks on a journey to save the world from the epidemic with his friends. Tito's search for the antidote becomes a quest for his missing father and his own identity.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Shojo beat edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Shirayuki is an herbalist famous for her naturally bright-red hair, and the prince of Tanbarun wants her all to himself! Unwilling to become the prince's possession, she seeks shelter in the woods of the neighboring kingdom, where she gains an unlikely ally--the prince of that kingdom! He rescues her from her plight, and thus begins the love story between a lovestruck prince and an unusual herbalist... Shirayuki begins her duties as a court herbalist...
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
ix, 133 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Offering real-life examples of what it means to be a 24/7 library, this collection from the Public Library Association and ALA Editions shares how several libraries transitioned to virtual and socially-distanced services when the pandemic hit. No matter your library's current situation or outlook for the future, you'll be inspired to adapt their ideas to suit the needs of your own organization"--
56) Wayward: a novel
Author
Series
Wanderers volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
x, 803 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The sequel to the national bestseller Wanderers, the instant classic that "takes science, politics, horror, and science fiction and blends them into an outstanding story about the human spirit in times of turmoil, claiming a spot on the list of must-read apocalyptic novels" (NPR) Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country to a destination only they knew. And they...
57) Ghost Hawk
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
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