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The Windup Girl

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:14:33 PST

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Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's calorie representative in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, he combs Bangkok’s street markets in search of foodstuffs long thought to be extinct. There he meets the windup girl - the beautiful and enigmatic Emiko - now abandoned to the slums. She is one of the New People, bred to suit the whims of the rich. Engineered as slaves, soldiers and toy ...

Blindness

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 6:18:23 PST

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A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and ...

The Art of Travel

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:09:05 PST

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The "Art of Travel" is Alain de Botton's travel guide with a difference: an exploration of why we travel and what we learn when we do. As seen on Channel 4 Few activities seem to promise is as much happiness as going travelling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where ...

Existenzgründung im Medienbereich

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 1:17:36 PST

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The Filter Bubble

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:45:29 PST

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A report on how internet personalization is controlling and limiting information to users reveals how sites like Google and Facebook only display search results ...

Zendegi

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:44:17 PST

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Zendegi is facing fierce competition from its rivals, and Nasim decides to exploit themap to fill the virtual world with better Proxies: the bit-players that ...

Crash

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:39:03 PST

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The cult status of "Crash" has intensified since its original publication in 1973, making it a classic of underground literature. In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a 'TV scientist', experiments with erotic atrocities among crash victims, each more sinister than the last: ultimately, he craves a union of blood, semen and engine coolant in a head-on ...

Dinky Toys

Tue, 3 Jan 2012 22:23:08 PST

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Echt zien

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 1:06:32 PST

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Rule 34

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 6:14:00 PST

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Head of the Rule 34 Squad monitoring the Internet for illegal activities, Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh investigates the link between three ex-con spammers ...

De nieuwe regels van het spel / druk 1

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:56:19 PST

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The City and the City

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 6:44:47 PST

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PRAISE FOR CHINA MIÉVILLEPerdido Street Station‘An astonishing novel, guaranteed to astound and enthrall’ Times Literary Supplement‘A well-written, ...

The Drama of the Gifted Child

Sat, 3 Sep 2011 23:48:20 PST

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As charming performers who skillfully reflect their parents expectations, far too many children grow into adults driven to greater and greater achievements by an underlying sense of worthlessness. Never allowed to express their true feelings, and having lost touch with their true selves, they act out their repressed feelings with episodes of depression and compulsive behavior. They in turn inflic ...

The Information

Fri, 2 Sep 2011 0:00:00 PST

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Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genet ...

Liebe dich selbst und es ist egal, wen du heiratest.

Thu, 1 Sep 2011 5:49:49 PST

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The Atrocity Exhibition: Annotated

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:01:11 PST

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A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. This edition features explanatory notes from the author. The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force. The central character's dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and car-cras ...

Beginning IPhone 3 Development: Exploring the IPhone SDK

Sat, 2 Jul 2011 2:06:37 PST

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The bestselling iPhone development book, updated and revised for SDK 3!Are you a programmer looking for a new challenge? Does the thought of building your ...

De joodse messias

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:59:54 PST

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Super Sad True Love Story

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:57:34 PST

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De kaart en het gebied

Thu, 26 May 2011 17:25:47 PST

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Persuasive Games

Thu, 12 May 2011 22:43:35 PST

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Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this innovative analysis, Ian Bogost examines the way videogames mount arguments and influence players. Drawing on the 2,500-year history of rhetoric, the study of persuasive expression, Bogost ana ...

Homo ludens

Thu, 12 May 2011 22:43:21 PST

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In addition to his historical works, and his biographies, as his life was drawing to a close, Huizinga spent his time studying general cultural theories. Huizinga saw the instinct for play as a central element in human culture: 'In myth and ritual the great instinctive forces of civilized life have their origin: law and order, commerce and profit, craft and art, poetry, wisdom and science. All ar ...

Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Thu, 12 May 2011 22:43:03 PST

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"These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response to function." This book, opening with these words, presents an entirely new theory of the process of design. In the first part of the book, Mr. Alexander discusses the process by which a form is adapted to the context of human needs and demands tha ...

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Thu, 12 May 2011 22:42:38 PST

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A classic since its publication in 1961, this book is the defintive statement on American cities: what makes them safe, how they function, and why all too many official attempts at saving them have failed.

Thoughts on Interaction Design

Thu, 12 May 2011 22:42:23 PST

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Some books about design focus on web sites or specific products. Some texts explore the aesthetic and emotional value provided by various elements of design. However, there are few texts that explore the semantic connections that live between technology, and form and people-or 'interactions'. "Thoughts on Interaction Design" offers readers new insights into Interaction Design and the connections ...

Matter

Thu, 12 May 2011 6:28:21 PST

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In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she onc ...

Nooit meer slapen

Wed, 11 May 2011 3:22:37 PST

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Cloud Atlas

Wed, 4 May 2011 6:39:04 PST

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By the author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, David Mitchell's bestselling and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel was one of Richard & Judy's 100 Books of the Decade and has now been made into a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent and Hugh Grant A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited compose ...

On the Road

Sun, 1 May 2011 21:27:16 PST

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"On the Road" chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make "On the Road" an inspirationa ...

Nordic Larp

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:47:10 PST

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What to Do When You Become the Boss

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:46:44 PST

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It is assumed therefore that they will also be experts at people management, but this isoften not the case.

Players Unleashed!

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:45:01 PST

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The author of this hugely informative study explores the question of what happens when players practise and negotiate computer code, various ideologies, and the game itself by modding (modifying a game) in the context of The Sims, the bestselling computer game of all time. Sihvonen examines the technical and material specificities of The Sims mods, as well as their cultural context. Viewed as a m ...

Unit Operations

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 6:00:42 PST

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In Unit Operations, Ian Bogost argues that similar principles underlie both literary theory and computation, proposing a literary-technical theory that can be used to analyze particular videogames. Moreover, this approach can be applied beyond videogames: Bogost suggests that any medium--from videogames to poetry, literature, cinema, or art--can be read as a configurative system of discrete, inte ...

Reality Is Broken

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 6:00:17 PST

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The Sun Also Rises

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 17:49:37 PST

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Eating Animals

Fri, 7 Jan 2011 5:57:19 PST

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Imperial Bedrooms

Mon, 3 Jan 2011 5:43:06 PST

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Game Design Workshop, Second Edition

Sun, 2 Jan 2011 22:38:48 PST

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Master the craft of game design so you can create that elusive combination of challenge, competition, and interaction that players seek. This design workshop begins with an examination of the fundamental elements of game design; then puts you to work in prototyping, playtesting and redesigning your own games with exercises that teach essential design skills. Workshop exercises require no backg ...

Freedom

Sat, 1 Jan 2011 3:57:04 PST

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In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's characters as they struggle to ...

Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Sat, 1 Jan 2011 3:56:34 PST

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A narrative particle-accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one man's ...

The Art of Game Design

Sat, 1 Jan 2011 3:55:54 PST

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Anyone can master the fundamentals of game design - no technological expertise is necessary. The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses shows that the same basic principles of psychology that work for board games, card games and athletic games also are the keys to making top-quality videogames. Good game design happens when you view your game from many different perspectives, or lenses. While touri ...

Zero History

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 23:12:19 PST

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Which is not a great thought when you don't much trust your boss either.Gibson'snew novel, set largely in London, spookily captures the paranoia and fear of ...

Spook Country

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 5:27:09 PST

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Red ons, Maria Montanelli

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:21:09 PST

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Een jongen vertelt van zijn treurige leven op een Montessori-school.

A Pattern Language

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:28:57 PST

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You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental S ...

Data Flow 2

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 0:04:00 PST

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International interest in the sophisticated and aesthetic visualization of complex information made Data Flow a bestseller. Today, more and more graphic designers, advertising agencies, motion designers, and artists work in this area. New techniques and forms of expression are being developed. Consequently, the demand for information on this topic has grown enormously. Data Flow 2 expands the ...

Senorita's

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 7:12:35 PST

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Designing for the Digital Age

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 6:11:45 PST

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... 9780470229101 ...

R in a Nutshell

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:19:08 PST

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Presents a guide to the R computer language, covering such topics as the user interface, packages, syntax, objects, functions, object-oriented programming, data ...

Check in / Check uit / druk 1

Mon, 24 May 2010 5:31:08 PST

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Sonnetten en andere gedichten

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:08:27 PST

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Italiaanse en Nederlandse tekst.

Beyaz kale

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 6:18:41 PST

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Baba Ve Piç

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 6:18:21 PST

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Bit Palas

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 6:18:09 PST

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Vur emri

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 6:16:44 PST

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Radio Free Albemuth

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 7:27:41 PST

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In Radio Free Albemuth, his last novel, Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had informed his fiction from A Scanner Darkly to VALIS and produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, Radio Free Albemuth is ...

Het diner

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 18:14:29 PST

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Twee echtparen gaan een avond uit eten in een restaurant. Ze praten over alledaagse dingen, dingen waar mensen tijdens etentjes over praten: werk, de laatste films, de oorlog in Irak, vakantieplannen, et cetera. Maar ondertussen vermijden ze waar ze het eigenlijk over moeten hebben: hun kinderen. De twee vijftienjarige zoons van beide echtparen, Michel en Rick, hebben samen iets uitgehaald wat h ...

Persuasive Technology

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 18:13:35 PST

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Can computers change what you think and do? Can they motivate you to stop smoking, persuade you to buy insurance, or convince you to join the Army? "Yes, they can," says Dr. B.J. Fogg, director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University. Fogg has coined the phrase "Captology"(an acronym for computers as persuasive technologies) to capture the domain of research, design, and applic ...

Makers

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 2:19:26 PST

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother, a major novel of the booms, busts, and further booms in store for America</p><p>Perry and Lester invent things—seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems, like the “New Work,” a New Deal for the technological era. Barefoot bankers cross the natio ...

Communicating Design

Sat, 9 Jan 2010 22:22:17 PST

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Most discussion about Web design seems to focus on the creative process, yet turning concept into reality requires a strong set of deliverables—the documentation (concept model, site maps, usability reports, and more) that serves as the primary communication tool between designers and customers. Here at last is a guide devoted to just that topic. Combining quick tips for improving deliverabl ...

Karavanserai

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 5:55:35 PST

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Infinite Jest

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:30:00 PST

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A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to conne ...

Verzamel de liefde

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:44:22 PST

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Verzameling gedichten over liefde, verliefdheid, verlaten en verlaten worden. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.

Karavanserai / druk 1

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:19:25 PST

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Kooi / druk 1

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:16:40 PST

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Zoekt vaas

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:16:17 PST

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Star Maker

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 0:58:05 PST

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One moment a man sits on a suburban hill, gazing curiously at the stars. The next, he is whirling through the firmament, and perhaps the most remarkable of all science fiction journeys has begun. Even Stapledon's other great work, LAST AND FIRST MEN, pales in ambition next to STAR MAKER, which presents nothing less than an entire imagined history of life in the universe, encompassing billions o ...

Morocco

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 2:39:59 PST

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CAR The major car rental agencies are located at the airport. The following have in-town locations: Amine Car (Map p178; ...

The Back of the Napkin

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:22:08 PST

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A Theory of Fun for Game Design

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:12:09 PST

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A Theory of Fun for Game Design is not your typical how-to book. It features a novel way of teaching interactive designers how to create and improve their designs to incorporate the highest degree of fun. As the book shows, designing for fun is all about making interactive products like games highly entertaining, engaging, and addictive. The book's unique approach of providing a highly visual sto ...

The Difference Engine

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:10:12 PST

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A collaborative novel from the premier cyberpunk authors, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine takes us not forward but back, to an imagined 1885: the Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven, cybernetic engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a ...

The Great Gatsby

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:09:34 PST

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With an Introduction and Notes by Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury.Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the ""roaring twenties"", and a devastating expose of the ""Jazz Age"". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Lo ...

Alle goeds / 10 euro editie

Fri, 9 Oct 2009 18:40:37 PST

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Dit is geen boek dat prijzen wint Het is een bange idioot, Een ernstig kind dat moet getroost En lief dat ligt te blozen in uw handen, Een charmant abuis Dit boek wil met u mee naar huis

The Bro Code

Fri, 9 Oct 2009 6:47:43 PST

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Everyone's life is governed by an internal code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. But Bros in the know call this holy grail the Bro Code. Historically a spoken tradition passed from one generation to the next, the official code of conduct for Bros appears here in its published form for the first time ever. By upholding the tenets of this sacred an legendary document, an ...

Eastern Standard Tribe

Fri, 9 Oct 2009 6:46:46 PST

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A comedy of loyalty, betrayal, sex, madness, and music-swappingArt is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without a question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth onto the world.Why? Because Art is an ind ...

The Lions of Al-Rassan

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:31:32 PST

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A Master Storyteller Creates an Enduring Legend of His Own Over the centuries, the once stern rulers of Al-Rassan have been seduced by sensuous pleasures. Now King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy, adding city after city to his realm, aided by his friend and advisor, the notorious Ammar ibn Khairan--poet, diplomat, soldier--until a summer day of savage brutality changes their relationship ...

Verzamelde Gedichten

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 20:33:31 PST

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Bundeling van het poëtisch oeuvre van de schrijver (1923) uit de periode 1939- 1983.

Genoeg gedicht over de liefde vandaag

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 20:33:07 PST

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Pattern Recognition

Mon, 7 Sep 2009 8:55:10 PST

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Cayce Pollard (pronounced 'case") is a legend in the field of market research, paid handsomely to recognize cultural and social patterns that corporations can turn into cash. Google her and you find 'coolhunter," and you may see it suggested that she is a 'sensitive" of some kind, a dowserin the world of global marketing. The truth, according to her friends, is that her sensitivity is closer to a ...

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Thu, 3 Sep 2009 7:45:44 PST

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Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a ...

Inversions

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 6:26:38 PST

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Iain M. Banks, the international bestselling author of The Player of Games and Consider Phlebas, is a true original, a literary visionary whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination. Now, in his acclaimed new novel, Banks presents an engrossing portrait of an alien world, and of two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret. ...

The State of the Art

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 6:21:59 PST

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The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bea ...

Consider Phlebas

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 7:22:50 PST

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The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on ...

Look to Windward

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 7:36:05 PST

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It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq'. The light from the second may not. 'Confirms Banks as the standard by which the rest of SF is judged' GUARDIAN 'In terms of sheer stor ...

Brazil Contemporary

Tue, 4 Aug 2009 6:13:22 PST

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Brazil Contemporarycelebrates the vibrancy of Brazilian culture through a diverse selection of art, architecture, pop culture and ephemera featuring the ...

Excession

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:18:00 PST

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Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle.... Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of ...

Use of Weapons

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:21:04 PST

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The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen ...

Visualizing Data

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:50:59 PST

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Enormous quantities of data go unused or underused today, simply because people can't visualize the quantities and relationships in it. Using a downloadable programming environment developed by the author, Visualizing Data demonstrates methods for representing data accurately on the Web and elsewhere, complete with user interaction, animation, and more. How do the 3.1 billion A, C, G and T lett ...

KARA KITAP

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 6:16:10 PST

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Solar Lottery

Wed, 3 Jun 2009 0:02:18 PST

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The operating principle was random selection: positions of public power were decided by a sophisticated lottery. Everyone had a chance, everyone could live in hope that they would be chosen to be the boss, the Quizmaster. But with the power came the game - the assassination game - which everyone could watch on TV. Would the new man be good enough to avoid his chosen killer? Which made for fas ...