The Atlantis Plague

Seventy thousand years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how.

Until now. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time. The Immari are good at keeping secrets. For 2,000 years, they've hidden the truth about human evolution. They've also searched for an ancient enemy - a threat that could wipe out the human race. Now the search is over.

The ice is coming. It was the last thing we expected, but the world is freezing. A new ice age has dawned. Billions have fled the glaciers. A cataclysmic war is coming. In orbit, a group of scientists are running the Winter Experiments, a last-ditch attempt to understand why the planet is cooling. None of the climate models they build make sense. But then they discover an anomaly, an unexplained variation in solar radiation...and something else. Close to the burning edge of the sun, they catch a fleeting glimpse of something that shouldn’t be there....

Mandera, im Nordosten Kenias: Die X1-Mandera-Pandemie breitet sich wie ein Flächenbrand aus - und ist kein biologisch-evolutionärer Zufall. Berlin: Ein Mann erwacht in seinem Zimmer im Concord Hotel und hat das Gedächtnis verloren. Mit ihm im Raum befinden sich die Leiche eines ihm unbekannten Mannes sowie ein Zettel mit einem seltsamen Code darauf. Atlanta: Die Ärztin Peyton Shaw wird von den kenianischen Behörden kontaktiert, um sich der mysteriösen Seuche anzunehmen. Sie findet heraus, dass ein ganzes Kartell geheimnisvoller Firmen, Institutionen und Organisationen die Pandemie mit einer finsteren Absicht steuert.

In Atlanta, Dr. Peyton Shaw is awakened by the phone call she has dreaded for years. As the CDC's leading epidemiologist, she's among the first responders to outbreaks around the world. It's a lonely and dangerous job, but it's her life - and she's good at it. This time she may have met her match. In Kenya, an Ebola-like pathogen has infected two Americans. One lies at death's door. With the clock ticking, Peyton assembles her team and joins personnel from the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the WHO.

The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking. Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains....

Wenn Reichtum für alle möglich wäre, man dafür aber von seinem eigenen Geld abgeben müsste, würdest du teilen? "Stoppt die Gier!" rufen sie und "Tod dem Kapitalismus". Auf der ganzen Welt demonstrieren Menschen gegen die Folgen einer neuen Wirtschafts krise. Nur ein paar wenige Reiche sind die Gewinner. Bei einem Sondergipfel in Berlin will Nobelpreisträger Herbert Thompson eine Rede halten, die die Welt verändern könnte. Denn angeblich hat er die Formel gefunden, mit der Wohlstand für alle möglich ist. Doch dazu wird er nicht mehr kommen.

Der ehemalige Hacker Axel Krohn setzt versehentlich ein Computervirus frei, das unzählige der leistungsfähigsten Rechner auf der ganzen Welt vernetzt. Als sich daraufhin auf allen Kontinenten Störfälle häufen und die Infrastruktur zum Erliegen kommt, stößt Axel gemeinsam mit der undurchsichtigen Giselle auf ein Geheimnis, das unsere Welt für immer verändern wird: In den Computernetzen ist etwas erwacht, das stärker ist, als wir je ahnen konnten.

Linda McKinney is a myrmecologist, a scientist who studies the social structure of ants. Her academic career has left her entirely unprepared for the day her sophisticated research is conscripted by unknown forces to help run an unmanned - and thanks to her research, automated - drone army. Odin is the secretive Special Ops soldier with a unique insight into the faceless enemy who has begun to attack the American homeland with drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute targets.

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he's arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn't kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn't stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.

You think you know how the world works? Think again. From best-selling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller that questions the very foundations of the modern world. Magic has faded from the minds of mankind, until an encounter between Melisande Stokes, linguistics expert at Harvard, and Tristan Lyons, shadowy agent of government, leads to the uncovering of a distant past.