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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible--a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style--thorough, yet riveting--famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The early adventures of interstellar exploration continue as Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the Enterprise NX-01 learn more of the Temporal Cold War taking place all around them. More first contacts take place, while new threats begin to reveal themselves, including the introduction of the mysterious Xindi race"--Container.
9) Star trek
Language
English
Description
On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien vessel. He was searching for Ambassador Spock, who is a child on Vulcan, disdained by his neighbors for his half-human nature. Twenty years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker. He is inspired by Capt. Christopher Pike to fulfill his potential in Starfleet, even though he annoys his instructors. Suddenly, there is an emergency on Vulcan...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After a lunar cataclysm brings the Klingon Empire to its knees, peace with the Federation may be finally within reach. When Kirk is sent to broker that peace he and his crew are implicated in the brutal assassination of a Klingon diplomat, bringing both worlds to the brink of full-scale war.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
On a routine inspection of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Admiral James T. Kirk's Starfleet career enters a new chapter as a result of his most vengeful nemesis: Khan Noonien Singh, the genetically enhanced conqueror from the late 20th-century Earth.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A renegade Vulcan with a startling secret hijacks the crew in order to find a mythical planet, while Kirk and his crew set out to stop a madman in an adventure that takes them to the center of the universe and, perhaps, before the face of God.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Admiral Kirk's defeat of Khan and the creation of the Genesis planet are empty victories. Spock is dead and McCoy is unexplainably being driven insane. Then an unexpected visit from Sarek, Spock's father, provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence. With one friend alive and one not, but both in pain, Kirk attempts to help his friends by stealing the Enterprise and defying Starfleet's Genesis planet quarantine.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Branded as fugitives by the Federation they swore to protect, the crew dutifully returns to Earth to face charges for crimes committed in the course of rescuing a resurrected Spock, but while en route, they learn that Earth is being ravaged by a strange alien probe demanding a response from a life form that no longer exists.
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