Would you try a new drug, harmless, cheap, legal, without side effects and 100% technological? Julián Konks and Anthony Somoza are two 24-year-old computer genius who have created an algorithm based on Artificial Intelligence capable of modifying and controlling human emotions from a App. It's called Synchro and it works with a microchip that is ingested in the form of a black jelly ball; a minute later, connected by Bluetooth to a mobile device, it is capable of generating any emotion upon...
Over the past two decades, new technologies, changing viewer practices, and the proliferation of genres and channels has transformed American television. One of the most notable impacts of these shifts is the emergence of highly complex and elaborate forms of serial narrative, resulting in a robust period of formal experimentation and risky programming rarely seen in a medium that is typically viewed as formulaic and convention bound. Complex TV offers a sustained analysis of the poetics of...
Sandra Brown hat sein episches Meisterwerk «Matthew Corbett und die Hexe von Fount Royal» über die Hexenjagd in einer amerikanischen Koloniestadt begeistert als «zutiefst überzeugend … mit unvergleichlicher Kenntnis der menschlichen Seele erzählt» charakterisiert. Nun bringt Robert McCammon seinen Helden Matthew Corbett ins New York des frühen achtzehnten Jahrhunderts: Ein Mörder übt über die geschäftige Stadt, die ihre unverwechselbare Identität noch entwickelt, eine blutige und entsetzliche...
Robert McCammons einzigartige historische Kriminalreihe um den ›Problemlöser‹ Matthew Corbett im noch jungen Amerika des 17. Jahrhunderts.Wir befinden uns im Winter des Jahres 1703 und Matthew Corbett wird noch immer von den Schatten seines Aufeinandertreffens mit dem berüchtigten Massenmörder Tyranthus Slaughter verfolgt. Als eine Reihe unerklärlicher Explosionen Manhattan erschüttert, sieht sich Matthew mit einem neuen Problem konfrontiert. Irgendwer versucht offenbar sehr nachdrücklich, seine...
This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Novels Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Cather,...
A Description of Millenium Hall is a utopian novel that takes the form of a frame tale and a series of adventures, as the narrator's long-lost cousin relates how each of the residents arrived at the female Utopia, Millenium Hall. The adventures are remarkable for their reliance on a nearly superstitious form of divine grace, where God's will manifests itself with the direct punishment of the wicked and the miraculous protection of the innocent. In one tale, a woman about to be ravished...
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The new edition of the leading textbook on Roman art, updated with new images and expanded geographic and cultural scope A History of Roman Art is an expansive survey of the painting, mosaic, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture of ancient Rome. This acclaimed textbook provides a fully-illustrated narrative history of Roman art that spans a millennium, from the early origins of Rome to the era of Emperor Constantine. Interwoven throughout the text are themes of Rome's...