• Tricia Sullivan
  • Fiction
  • 2016-01-21

Occupy Me

Author: Tricia Sullivan

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 1473212987

Category: Fiction

Page: 272

View: 2252

A woman with wings that exist in another dimension. A man trapped in his own body by a killer. A briefcase that is a door to hell. A conspiracy that reaches beyond our world. Breathtaking SF from a Clarke Award-winning author. Tricia Sullivan has written an extraordinary, genre defining novel that begins with the mystery of a woman who barely knows herself and ends with a discovery that transcends space and time. On the way we follow our heroine as she attempts to track down a killer in the body of another man, and the man who has been taken over, his will trapped inside the mind of the being that has taken him over. And at the centre of it all a briefcase that contains countless possible realities. Tricia Sullivan returns to the genre with a book that will define the conversation within the genre and will show what it is capable of for years to come. This is the best book yet from a writer of exceedingly rare talent who is much loved in the genre world.
  • Chiwendu Okenwa

OCCUPY ME

Author: Chiwendu Okenwa

Publisher: Lulu.com

ISBN: 1105673278

Category:

Page: N.A

View: 723

  • Nnedi Okorafor
  • Fiction
  • 2017-10-04

Das Buch des Phönix

Author: Nnedi Okorafor

Publisher: Cross Cult

ISBN: 3959814941

Category: Fiction

Page: 400

View: 7858

Man hat sie vieles genannt – ein Forschungsobjekt, ein Ding, eine Abscheulichkeit. Sie selbst nennt sich Phoenix und ist ein genetisches Experiment. Mit nicht mehr als zwei Lebensjahren verfügt Phoenix über den Körper und den Verstand einer Erwachsenen – und über Kräfte jenseits aller Vorstellungskraft. Eines Tages jedoch beschließt sie, nach Antworten zu suchen und bricht aus dem mysteriösen Turm 7, ihrem Zuhause, aus, um zu erkennen, dass dieser keine Zuflucht war, sondern ein Gefängnis.
  • Josiah Bancroft
  • Fiction
  • 2018-08-13

Im Turm

Roman

Author: Josiah Bancroft

Publisher: Heyne Verlag

ISBN: 3641226368

Category: Fiction

Page: 448

View: 9628

Der Turm von Babel ist das gewaltigste Bauwerk des Seidenen Zeitalters: er ragt so hoch in die Wolken hinein, dass niemand weiß, wo er endet; in seinem Inneren gibt es ganze Königreiche und unzählige Labyrinthe voller geheimnisvoller Kreaturen und tödlicher Gefahren. Eigentlich wollte der furchtsame Thomas Senlin nur einen kurzen Blick auf dieses Weltwunder werfen und dann weiterreisen. »Falls wir uns in der Menschenmenge verlieren, treffen wir uns auf der Spitze des Turmes wieder«, sagt seine frisch angetraute Frau Marya noch kokett zu ihm, kurz darauf ist sie tatsächlich spurlos verschwunden. Senlin bleibt keine Wahl: Er muss rein in den Turm und rauf auf die Spitze, wenn er seine Frau wiederfinden will. Das Abenteuer beginnt ...
  • David Graeber
  • Political Science
  • 2018-08-30

Bullshit Jobs

Vom wahren Sinn der Arbeit

Author: David Graeber

Publisher: Klett-Cotta

ISBN: 3608115064

Category: Political Science

Page: 560

View: 7407

Ein Bullshit-Job ist eine Beschäftigungsform, die so völlig sinnlos, unnötig oder schädlich ist, dass selbst der Arbeitnehmer ihre Existenz nicht rechtfertigen kann. Es geht also gerade nicht um Jobs, die niemand machen will, sondern um solche, die eigentlich niemand braucht. Im Zuge des technischen Fortschritts sind zahlreiche Arbeitsplätze durch Maschinen ersetzt worden. Trotzdem ist die durchschnittliche Arbeitszeit nicht etwa gesunken, sondern auf durchschnittlich 41,5 Wochenstunden gestiegen. Wie konnte es dazu kommen? David Graeber zeigt in seinem bahnbrechenden neuen Buch, warum immer mehr überflüssige Jobs entstehen und welche verheerenden Konsequenzen diese Entwicklung für unsere Gesellschaft hat. Im Jahr 1930 sagte der britische Ökonom John Maynard Keynes voraus, dass durch den technischen Fortschritt heute niemand mehr als 15 Stunden pro Woche arbeiten müsse. Fast ein Jahrhundert danach stellt David Graeber fest, dass die Gegenwart anders aussieht: Die durchschnittliche Arbeitszeit ist gestiegen und immer mehr Menschen üben Tätigkeiten aus, die unproduktiv und daher eigentlich überflüssig sind – als Immobilienmakler, Investmentbanker oder Unternehmensberater. Es sind Jobs, die keinen sinnvollen gesellschaftlichen Beitrag leisten. Es sind Bullshit-Jobs. Warum bezahlt eine Ökonomie solche Tätigkeiten, die sie nicht braucht? Wie ist es zu dieser Entwicklung gekommen? Und was können wir dagegen tun? David Graeber, einer der radikalsten politischen Denker unserer Zeit, geht diesem Phänomen auf den Grund. Ein packendes Plädoyer gegen die Ausweitung sinnloser Arbeit, die die moralischen Grundfesten unserer Gesellschaft ins Wanken bringt.
  • Alastair Reynolds
  • Fiction
  • 2018-01-09

Rache

Roman

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Publisher: Heyne Verlag

ISBN: 3641214726

Category: Fiction

Page: 560

View: 4332

Die Galaxis hat riesige Imperien aufsteigen und fallen sehen. Jetzt hat sich die menschliche Zivilisation verstreut, und es gibt überall verborgene Schätze zu finden. Wenn man weiß, wo man suchen muss – wie Captain Rackamore und seine Crew. Der nächste Auftrag jedoch könnte sich für die Raumpiraten nicht nur als höchst lukrativ, sondern auch als äußerst tödlich erweisen ...
  • Genevieve Cogman
  • Fiction
  • 2016-08-12

Die maskierte Stadt

Roman

Author: Genevieve Cogman

Publisher: BASTEI LÜBBE

ISBN: 3732523160

Category: Fiction

Page: 464

View: 3195

Irene Winters ist Agentin der unsichtbaren Bibliothek, die jenseits von Raum und Zeit als Tor zwischen den Welten existiert. Sie hat gerade auf einer zwielichtigen Auktion ein seltenes Buch erworben, als sie und ihr Assistent Kai überfallen werden. Zu spät erkennt Irene, dass es nicht um das Buch, sondern um Kai geht. Er wird entführt, ohne dass Irene es verhindern kann. Die Spur der Verbrecher führt in ein dunkles Venedig des immerwährenden Karnevals. Ein Ort der Masken und Geheimnisse. Und des Todes ... SPANNEND WIE BEN AARONOVITCH, ORIGINELL WIE JASPER FFORDE UND RAFFINIERT WIE KAI MEYER
  • Josie Litton
  • Fiction
  • 2008-12-10

Dream of Me/Believe in Me

Author: Josie Litton

Publisher: Bantam

ISBN: 9780307484024

Category: Fiction

Page: 816

View: 2657

Complete in one breathtaking volume — Books One and Two of an unforgettable historical romance series by an exciting new author They were two Viking lords, the brothers Wolf and Dragon, bound both by blood and by a shared ambition to end the war with their lifelong enemies, the Saxons. They know that their only hope for peace is to persuade the Saxon Lord Hawk to unite his noble family with theirs — in a bond sealed forever by the sanctity of marriage. Together these three men will strive to overcome centuries-old rivalries and hatred. Each will unite in marriage with an extraordinary woman who has her own special gift — and her own dreams of bringing about an end to war.... Book One In Dream of Me we meet the Viking leader Wolf Hakonson as he embarks on a mission to kidnap the Lady Cymbra, a legendary beauty Wolf mistakenly believes is the cause of war. Instead he discovers that she is a gifted healer who will challenge him to confront his deepest yearnings — and together they will become soul mates who forge a future blessed by peace. Book Two The drama continues in Believe in Me, when the Saxon Lord Hawk, brother of Cymbra, seeks to strengthen the alliance by wedding a Norse noblewoman. But Lady Krysta arrives bearing many secrets — including her gift for seeing what others cannot. And as an unexpected love ignites, only Krysta can sense the looming danger that threatens the peace — and Hawk as well. Now, discover Josie Litton.... From the Paperback edition.
  • Nora Gold
  • Fiction
  • 2014-04-14

Fields of Exile

Author: Nora Gold

Publisher: Dundurn

ISBN: 1459721470

Category: Fiction

Page: 424

View: 6157

Judith was a peace activist in Israel, yet in graduate school she discovers that vilifying Israel is the expected norm. When Judith protests the hypocrisy she finds on campus, her life begins to unravel.
  • Knut Hamsun
  • Fiction
  • 1999-11-02

Hunger

Author: Knut Hamsun

Publisher: Canongate Books

ISBN: 1847673643

Category: Fiction

Page: 224

View: 5065

INTRODUCTION BY JO NESBØ AFTERWORD BY PAUL AUSTER Nineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is thin on the ground. Roaming the streets of Norway's capital, a penniless young writer searches for inspiration whilst trying desperately to make ends meet. Driven to extraordinary lengths, sleeping under the stars with his stomach growling, the writer's behaviour becomes increasingly irrational and his world spirals into chaos. Hunger was Knut Hamsun's first novel and earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. A disturbing and darkly humorous masterpiece of existential fiction, Hunger anticipated and influenced some of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers including Camus, Kafka and Fante.
  • June P. Bullen
  • Family & Relationships
  • 2007-05-15

Me!

A Baby's Guide to Parenting

Author: June P. Bullen

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 9780595863969

Category: Family & Relationships

Page: 80

View: 3132

How great do you feel when someone tells you they love you? No conditions or expectations, just unconditional love. Incredibly happy and special? Well! Your baby feels the same when you nurture and love him unconditionally. A positive, calm and reasonable attitude towards raising your child far outweighs a negative, hostile one, and will reward you with the magical experience of a lifetime bond of love and friendship. Author June P. Bullens guide, of life with your baby, provides you with an insight not normally illustrated in parenting manuals. Suggestions and explanations couldnt be simpler, because the book is written from babys point of view.
  • H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.,S.F. Spicker
  • Medical
  • 2012-12-06

Evaluation and Explanation in the Biomedical Sciences

Proceedings of the First Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine Held at Galveston, May 9–11, 1974

Author: H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.,S.F. Spicker

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9401017697

Category: Medical

Page: 246

View: 7024

This volume inaugurates a series concerning philosophy and medicine. There are few, if any, areas of social concern so pervasive as medicine and yet as underexamined by philosophy. But the claim to precedence of the Proceedings of the First Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philos ophy and Medicine must be qualified. Claims to be "first" are notorious in the history of scientific as well as humanistic investigation and the claim that the First Trans-Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine has no precedent is not meant to be put in bald form. The editors clearly do not maintain that philosophers and physicians have not heretofore discussed matters of mutual concern, nor that individual philosophers and physicians have never taken up problems and concepts in medicine which are themselves at the boundary or interface of these two disciplines - concepts like "matter," "disease," "psyche. " Surely there have been books published on the logic and philosophy of medi 1 cine. But the formalization of issues and concepts in medicine has not received, at least in this century, sustained interest by professional phi losophers. Groups of philosophers have not engaged medicine in order to explicate its philosophical presuppositions and to sort out the various concepts which appear in medicine. The scope of such an effort takes the philosopher beyond problems and issues which today are subsumed under the rubric "medical ethics.
  • John Verdi
  • Philosophy
  • 2010

Fat Wednesday

Wittgenstein on Aspects

Author: John Verdi

Publisher: Paul Dry Books

ISBN: 1589880544

Category: Philosophy

Page: 296

View: 2923

John Verdi probes how the inexplicable connections of words can help us understand the ever-changing connections of things that we actually see in everyday experience. In his preface he writes, "I explore two related concepts: aspect-seeing and experiencing the meaning of a word." Verdi considers how our experience of seeing aspects, wherever they appear, helps us imagine possible meanings for philosophy's opening question: "What is there?" He illuminates Ludwig Wittgenstein's ideas on language and perception while challenging readers to think through for themselves the different ways in which we see. A major influence in the development of analytic philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was a leading thinker in the study of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
  • Robert Ayres Carter
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • 2008-10-31

Tell Me the Truth About Love

Memories: 1953-1969

Author: Robert Ayres Carter

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

ISBN: 1469124009

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 408

View: 3532

Praise for Sundays Child Carter has written a memoir that captures the quintessential America that now seems to be slipping away from us. A real treat. --John Tebbel, author and Journalist Deeply moving...the book is a delight and of course you write like a dream...Congratulations on what I believe we used to call a great read, and more than that, a deeply affecting record. --Ellen Feldman, author of Lucy and The Scottsboro Boys Praise for Nobody Yet Knows Who I Am In volume two of Robert Carters memoirs, the reader is again treated to the authors ruthlessly stark self-appraisal. Through the extraordinarily clarity of prose, the reader seems to share his experiences immediately rather than through the medium of words. His descriptions of his lovers, friends, and passing acquaintances drive the reader along. --James Scanlon, Professor Emeritus of History, Randolph-Macon College
  • Tammie Ronen,Ayelet
  • Psychology
  • 2001

In and Out of Anorexia

The Story of the Client, the Therapist and the Process of Recovery

Author: Tammie Ronen,Ayelet

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

ISBN: 9781853029905

Category: Psychology

Page: 287

View: 1753

Ayelet spent six years of her adolescence in and out of hospital, having been diagnosed as suffering from a severe anorexia disorder. Ayelet describes her personal experiences of the illness, the repeated hospitalisations and her ultimate recovery. The book outlines the importance of a good relationship between the client and the therapist.
  • Charlotte Brontë
  • 1850

Shirley: a tale

Author: Charlotte Brontë

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category:

Page: 392

View: 8780

  • Paul Galvin
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • 2014-10-30

In My Own Words

The Autobiography

Author: Paul Galvin

Publisher: Random House

ISBN: 1473509742

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 288

View: 1673

One of the greatest GAA footballers of the modern era, Paul Galvin has enjoyed a brilliant and at times controversial career. Winning four senior All Ireland medals with Kerry and eight Munster championships, he was also a three-time All Star and 2009 Footballer of the Year. His inter-county career took off in the late 1990s, when he picked up a Munster minor championship medal in 1997 and another at under-21 level in 1999. But it was in the senior team throughout the 2000s that Paul came into his own. In a period defined by great rivalry with Tyrone, he became a key playmaker for Kerry, never failing to give his all in pursuit of victory. Over the course of a career marked by courage, physicality and an intense passion for the Green and Gold, there were many glorious days. There were other days too, with controversial incidents that led to a number of suspensions, most notably in 2008, the year in which Paul also had the honour of being the Kerry captain. 2009 brought redemption. But 2010 presented new challenges. In this fiercely honest autobiography, Paul offers – in his own words – a compelling, unflinching account of a career that has fascinated football fans for over a decade.