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Eine schäbige Kneipe namens "Papillon", mitten in Prenzlauer Berg. Peter Stamann, der Besitzer, liegt erschlagen hinter dem Tresen. Die Kasse ist leer. Die Nachforschungen ergeben ein interessantes Persönlichkeitsprofil: zu DDR-Zeiten war Stamann als erfolgreicher Architekt an den großen Repräsentationsbauten des Landes beteiligt, danach musste er sich mit der Kneipe notdürftig über Wasser halten.

In this highly intoxicating original series, researchers Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, authors of the best-selling smash hit, Algorithms to Live By, tackle some of the biggest ideas in computer science today - and, in the process, illuminate cutting-edge ways of understanding how we live, work and play.

Dace Tolman’s life has been overturned. One moment he was in his apartment and the next, he and the rest of humanity find themselves in a strange world of monsters and magic. A new world. There is nothing benign about mankind’s new home. The Proving Grounds is a world seemingly designed to enhance those worthy of its gifts—and to kill off the rest. Every day is a struggle against the System and its creatures. Can Dace survive its challenges?

In the aftermath of a global pandemic, a beautiful and charismatic human rights activist is murdered live on the internet at the British Embassy in Paris. It is a mystery that no one wants solved.

Mindenbruch ist ein Dorf wie viele andere: Eine einzige Straße, knapp 500 Einwohner - und zwei Mädchen, die ein Jahr lang spurlos verschwunden sind, bevor sie scheinbar unbeschadet wieder auftauchen, als sei nichts geschehen. Dann verschwindet ein drittes... Die Polizei agiert merkwürdig zurückhaltend - bis einem Beamten der Kragen platzt und er auf eigene Faust beginnt zu handeln. Etwas ist faul an der Sache.

Die Freunde Kiri, Alish, Elio und Thanis wurden von der finsteren Zauberin Ashnakh gefangen genommen. Jetzt bringt diese sie in die unheimliche Festung der Spiegel im Reich Shyish, wo die Gefährten ein schlimmes Schicksal erwartet. Gefangen im Splitterglas-Labyrinth müssen sie erneut zusammenarbeiten, um aus dieser Sache wieder herauszukommen. Zu allem Überfluss werden sie auch noch von jemandem betrogen, dem sie eigentlich vertrauten, und die geisterhaften Nachtspuke sind ihnen auf den Fersen. Werden sie jemals aus der Geisterfestung entkommen?

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Athelstan: The Making of England by Tom Holland, read by Roy McMillan. The formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious position of the island on the edge of...

The United States, Russia, China, and other countries around the world have experienced contact with the phenomenon, as we will discover in War. Americans demand that their leaders reveal what they know. They demand disclosure. But what do our allies, and our enemies, know about the phenomenon and why have they not already disclosed? Why is this an international issue, and not just an American one? And what does that tell us about the phenomenon?

The first volume in Gods, Man, & War, Gods introduces the listener to some of the critical issues that are foundational to an intelligent and enlightened grasp of the revelations that will follow in the next two volumes. There is another Force in the universe of our Reality, another context for comprehending what has been going on for millennia and especially in the last 70 years.

Tom DeLonge and Peter Levenda continue their revelatory work in a thoroughly-researched exposé that seeks to solve the scientific mysteries of the unidentified aerial phenomenon, the UFO experiencers whose lives were changed forever, and what it means for all mankind. To this end, they have divided their study into three fields of inquiry: genetics and the ET hypothesis, consciousness, and human-machine symbiosis.

Auf der Suche nach ihrem verschollenen Meister geraten Alish, Kiri, Thanis, Kaspar und Elio in die Gefangenschaft der himmelsfahrenden Kharadron. Sie werden in eine Schattenstadt über den Wolken verschleppt, einen Ort voller Luftschiffe und fliegender Wunder. Um ihre Freiheit zurückzuerlangen, brauchen Alish und ihre Freunde starke Nerven, denn sie sollen einen schwer bewachten Schatz stehlen.

Featuring texts by Saul Alinsky, Edmund Burke, Rachel Carson, Carl von Clausewitz, Francis Fukuyama, Mahatma Gandhi, Friedrich Hayek, Thomas Hobbes, Martin Luther King, Niccolo Machiavelli, Karl Marx, J. S. Mill, George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Alexis De Tocqueville, Mary Wollstonecraft, and many more.

The Cold War is over, and chaos is setting in. The new President of Russia is trying to create a new democratic regime. But there are strong elements within the country that are trying to stop him: the ruthless Russian Mafia, the right-wing nationalists, and even revanchist Czarists. Op-Center...

'One of our very best authors ... Very funny, very moving novel' The New World 'Charming portrait of friendship and loneliness' Daily Mail 'Deeply comforting' Guardian 'Funny, inventive and beautifully heart-breaking' Irish Times Have you ever been curious about how people live when nobody is...

Before the lights went out, Jack Warrant never considered himself a prepper. That was someone on the edge, a conspiracy theorist or a doomsday cultist who had a fatalistic view of the world. He was neither a theorist nor a cultist. He was an optimist. At least that was what he told himself when the darker thoughts creeped into his psyche as he stared at the ceiling in the middle of the night. Whenever he started down the rabbit hole, he always clawed his way back into the sunlight.

Sven Krieger, Inhaber eines Startup-Unternehmens in der Solarbranche, wird eines Morgens tot an seinem Arbeitsplatz aufgefunden. Von einem Solarmodul erschlagen. Die Ermittlungen des Berliner Radio Tatort-Teams führen in ein schillerndes Milieu, in dem es um hehre Ideale und gleichzeitig um sehr viel Kapital geht. Kriegers Firma "Casa Solar" hielt das Patent auf ein innovatives Herstellungsverfahren von Solarzellen, das in der Branche für Furore sorgte. Der Beginn der Serienfertigung stand unmittelbar bevor und versprach enorme Gewinnerträge.

To Porterhouse College, Cambridge, famous for rowing, low academic standards. and a proud cuisine, comes a new Master, an ex-grammar-school boy, demanding Firsts, women students, a self-service canteen, and a slot-machine for contraceptives. There is considerable opposition to this challenge to the established order, in the form of Skullion, the intransigent porter at Porterhouse, who is determined that the hallowed traditions of the College will never change.

Op-Center chief Paul Hood was going to retire. But that's about as likely as a gun shooting flowers. A bunch of rogue U.N. peacekeepers, or "Keepers," has decided to cross over to the wrong side of the law. Armed with stolen U.N. weapons and ammo, they devise a shocking plan to gain the world's...

Warhammer Adventures is a series of action-packed stories about brave heroes who battle monstrous enemies and win great victories against impossible odds in the far-future universe of Warhammer 40,000 and the fantasy realms of Warhammer Age of Sigmar. This collection combines all the Realm Quest series titles, written by Tom Huddleston.

What do you do when you're given advance notice that your planet is about to be inducted into a System in thirty days? Strange arches show up all over the world, and no-one quite knows what's going on, although theories abound. Mike and his grandfather, Collin, try to investigate one of these arches. With the announcement that the training offered will take place on a planet already inducted into the System, Mike loses hope. Collin comes through, surprising Mike with a gold Krugerrand that will allow him to pass through the portal to train.