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Series
Language
English
Description
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach's "acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating" (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue.
For two thousand years, cadavers – some willingly, some unwittingly – have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Lena Johnson's beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the black millennial drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical expenses. A free place to live. All Lena has to do is participate in a secret program - and lie to her friends and family about the...
3) Vessel
Author
Publisher
Lily Thu Fierro, Generoso Fierro
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Kim is a Vietnamese-American woman living in 2062. All eyes are on her as she enters the second phase of a cardiovascular study, but she can only watch herself from somewhere beyond her conscious state. As the study's effects course through her blood vessels, her memories, body signals, and dreams converge.
4) Serenity
Language
English
Formats
Description
River Tam and her brother Simon are hiding out from the totalitarian government that experimented with River's brain aboard a space-freighter. Captained by a down on his luck soldier, the crew of Serenity must take jobs, whether they are legal or not, while trying to avoid the Alliance, and keeping the Tams safe. Then things get out of control and the true extent of River's powers becomes known. At the same time, the Alliance sends a new Operative...
5) Inversion
Author
Publisher
Lily Thu Fierro, Generoso Fierro
Pub. Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Researcher Dr Paul Vang and subject or respondent Phoung Do are participants in a mission named Europa set in the year 2079. Blurring the lines between researcher and subject are experiences known as 'virtualizations', simulations that mirror past experiences or create new stimuli. Phoung may seem like a subject in a state of suspended animation, but Dr Vang doesn't fare much better either, and seemingly struggles to cope with the mundanity of his...
Author
Language
English
Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
8) Akira
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
25th Anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Clandestine army activities threaten the war-torn city of Neo-Tokyo when a mysterious being with powerful psychic abilities escapes his prison and inadvertently draws a violent motorcycle gang into a heinous web of experimentation. As a result, a biker with a twisted mind embarks on a path of war, seeking revenge against a society that once called him weak.
9) Re-animator
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
10) Akira
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
[Limited edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray].
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays + 1 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 14 x 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics.
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