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Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xliv, 555 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Presents the fundamentals of game design from one of the world's top game designers. Exploring the unusual territory that is game design, the book demonstrates how the basic principles of psychology used in board games, card games, and athletic games also work in top-quality video games. The author gives readers 100+ sets of insightful questions to ask themselves to make their games better. These questions provide insight from fields as diverse as...
3) Phantom
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the height of the cold war, the world holds its breath when a Soviet submarine armed with nuclear missiles goes missing in the Pacific. On board the vessel, the battle-tested captain and a rogue KGB agent are waging a life-and-death game of cat and mouse. With enemy forces closing in and time running out, the captain fights to keep control with nuclear armageddon hanging in the balance.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
143 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"The future was once a beckoning landscape where technology would make all things possible and provide for a near-perfect life. Space travel! Robot maids! Personal jetpacks! Mind-controlling ray guns! Pac-Man! Sadly, apart from video games this future never quite materialized, but memories of it still linger in popular culture. Knits of Tomorrow celebrates this ideal world-that-never-was, along with past and present technological wonders, and will...
8) At weddings
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On her deeply moving debut album At Weddings, Sarah Beth Tomberlin writes with the clarity and wisdom of an artist well beyond her years. Immeasurable space circulates within the album's ten songs, which set Tomberlin's searching voice against lush backdrops of piano and guitar. Like Julien Baker and Sufjan Stevens, she has a knack for transforming the personal into parable. Like Grouper, she has a feel for the transcendent within the ordinary.
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 pages).
Description
Antonius Block is a knight, who along with his squire, are returning home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. Antonius challenges Death to a chess game for his life. Antonius and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval that the plague has caused.
10) ER: season 2
Pub. Date
[2004], c1995-c1996
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 985 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The lives, loves and losses of the doctors and nurses of Chicago's County General Hospital continue. A behind-the-scenes look at what happens when your life is put into the hands of emergency room doctors and nurses.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 800 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With the fall of the Barksdale empire, and the ascent of a new young drug king in Baltimore, McNulty, Bunk and the rest of the detail continue to "follow the money" up the political ladder amidst a hotly contested mayoral campaign. Prez witnesses first-hand the role of inner-city education in the formation of youth as four students, Michael, Namond, Randy and Dukie, face dangerous decisions and adolescent angst in a city rife with the temptations...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
93 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Learn how to design, build and customize 20 mini-projects in Minecraft, from firefighter planes and deep-sea submarines to hidden bunkers and arcade games. There's even a superhero flying school! With detailed instructions, block hacks and build tips, this book will teach you new tricks and help you practice old skills as you create bite-size builds to impress your friends in Minecraft."-- Provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 1180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Centers around the lives and loves of 5 young surgical interns at Seattle Grace Hospital. Placed in the most competitive and grueling internship a hospital has, these young interns learn how to become surgeons from some of the best in the business. Derek's previously unknown wife, Addison shows up and tries to win back her busband. Confronted with the two women he loves, Derek is forced to choose between them, a choice that will have wide reaching...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.)
Description
In this real-life story, Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, a spirited young woman who leaves the convent to bring love and music to the home of Captain von Trapp and his seven children.
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (18 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks.
Description
Classical archaeology, the excavation and analysis of ancient Greek and Roman sites, has been one of the leading branches of archaeology, pioneering its basic methods and major innovations. In these 36 half-hour lectures, Dr. John R. Hale of the University of Louisville guides the listener through 18th-century excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii, tours many important archaeological sites or discoveries, from the Bronze Age to late antiquity, and...
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (554 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The sins of the past haunt the present at the notorious Briarcliff home for the criminally insane, ruled with an iron fist by Sister Jude. Forbidden desire and terrifying evil lurk around every corner, from alien abduction to demonic possession to a skin-wearing psychopath known as 'Bloody Face.'
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 158 pages ; 19 cm).
Description
"Through Professor Hale's vibrant commentary and extensive field footage, you discover monumental ancient cities, classical ruins, temples, shrines, fortresses, stadiums, theaters, churches, and palaces. In each site, you explore the critical history and culture that defined them and the ways in which they influenced our modern world. In their compelling historical and visual detail, the lectures offer both a rich resource for travelers preparing...
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