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2015., Adult, Thistledown Press Ltd. Call No: IND Fic Joh Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Eighty years have passed since flash floods, droughts, and tornadoes have ravaged the North American landscape and mass migrations to the north have led to decade-long wars. In the thriving city of La Ronge, George Taylor and Lenore Hanson are lawyers who rarely interact with members of the lower classes from the impoverished suburb of Regis and the independently thriving Ashram outside the city. They live in a world of personalized Platforms, self-driving cars, and cutting edge Organic Recreational Vehicles (ORVs), where gamers need never leave their virtual realities. When Lenore befriends political dissenter and fellow war veteran Richard Warner, and George accidentally crash-lands his ORV near the mountain-sheltered haven of a First Nations community, they become exposed to new ways of thinking. As the lives of these near-strangers become intertwined, each is forced to confront the past before their relationships and lives unravel. Taking its title from the Latin name for the Trickster bird of First Nations, Norse, and Christian mythologies, Corvus examines the illusions of security we build through technology and presents a scathing satire of a world caught up in climate change denial and the glorification of war.
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1989, c1986., Simon and Schuster Call No: 509.51 T286g Edition: 1st Touchstone ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2014., Adult, W.W. Norton & Company Call No: 303.48 C312g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine -- the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. Even as they bring ease to our lives, these programs are stealing something essential from us. Psychological and neurological studies underscore how tightly people's happiness and satisfaction are tied to performing hard work in the real world. Shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented. From nineteenth-century textile mills to the cockpits of modern jets, from the frozen hunting grounds of Inuit tribes to the sterile landscapes of GPS maps -- the impact of automation from a human perspective, the personal as well as the economic consequences of our growing dependence on computers. A blend of history and philosophy, poetry and science -- a journey from the work and early theory of Adam Smith and Alfred North Whitehead to the latest research into human attention, memory, and happiness, culminating in a moving meditation on how we can use technology to expand the human experience. Nicholas Carr is the author of the blog Rough Type. He is an executive editor of the Harvard Business Review."--Provided by publisher.
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2016., General, Signal/McClelland & Stewart Call No: 909.83 H254h Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. He examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between. The author explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century - from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers?.
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-- Life out of balance2002., General, 87, MGM Home Entertainment Call No: DVD 333.714 K88k Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. This film presents a concert of visual images set to the music of Philip Glass that progesses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own manmade environment that is devoid of nature.
![Koyaanisqatsi [DVD] (1983). Directed by Godfrey Reggio. : life out of balance](/Library/images/~imageCT100060.JPG "Koyaanisqatsi [DVD] (1983). Directed by Godfrey Reggio. : life out of balance")
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2002., General, 89, Miramax Home Entertainment Call No: DVD 791.43 N217n Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Qatsi trilogy Volume: 3Summary Note: In this cinematic concert, the concluding film of the Qatsi Trilogy preceded by critically acclaimed Koyaanisqatsi ("Life out of balance"), and Powaqqatsi ("Life in transformation"), mesmerising images reanimated from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques, chronicle the shift from a world organised by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique artistic experience that reflects Reggio's vision of a brave new globalised world.
![Naqoyqatsi [DVD] (2002). Directed by Godfrey Reggio.](/Library/images/~imageCT100273.JPG "Naqoyqatsi [DVD] (2002). Directed by Godfrey Reggio.")
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2018., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: 418.4019 W853r Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Draws on the author's extensive research from "Proust and the Squid" to consider the future of the reading brain and its capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection in today's highly digitized world.
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-- Sapiens :2020., Adult, Signal, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart Call No: NEW 909 H254s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this first volume of the full-color illustrated adaptation of his groundbreaking book, renowned historian Yuval Harari tells the story of humankind's creation and evolution, exploring the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens challenges us to reconsider accepted beliefs, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and view specific events within the context of larger ideas.
