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(0)Michael Crichton
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English
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"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...
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Physical Desc
316 pages : map ; 23 cm
Language
Español
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Un cuento ambientado en el Salvaje Oeste durante la edad de oro de la caza de fósiles sigue las hazañas de dos paleontólogos ambiciosos que sabotean las carreras de los demás en una rivalidad que llegó a conocerse como las Guerras de Huesos.
A tale set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting follows the exploits of two ambitious paleontologists who sabotage each others' careers in a rivalry that came to be known as the Bone...
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366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle -- designated The Andromeda Strain -- killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before...
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1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This epic film is sheer movie-making magic that was 65 million years in the making. Jurassic Park takes you to an amazing theme park on a remote island where dinosaurs once again roam the earth and five people must battle to survive among the prehistoric predators.
6) Disclosure
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1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An executive who rejects the advances of his new female boss finds himself charged with sexual harrassment. His struggle to clear his name leads him into his company's cyberspace virtual reality corridor and uncovers a conspiracy amongst company personnel.
7) Twister
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1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton play scientists pursuing the most destructive weather front to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley in 50 years.
8) Westworld
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This story of a technological paradise suddenly turned nightmare is a genuine shocker. For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the "theme park" called Westworld where the gunhands and dance-hall girls are all robots programmed to serve the guests' violent and lustful fantasies -- until something goes wrong with their circuitry.