<p> Jack London, as part of his Nordic Tales series, raises a problem that is difficult to articulate clearly. This is a situation when a person is faced with the inevitability of a terrible painful death. A choice arises before him, which is worse: to accept a painful end, clinging to life until the last breath, or to die voluntarily. The peculiarity of the story is that the main character is a citizen of the Russian Empire, a participant in the Polish uprising, exiled by the tsar to Siberia.</p>
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Alles hat sich auf einen Blitzschlag verändert. Doch was bedeutet das wirklich für Kid Flash, Citizen Cold, Deathstroke und all jene, die wir als Helden oder Schurken kennen, und die nun etwas völlig anderes sind? 300 Seiten feinste Flashpoint-Action aus dem Herzen des folgenschweren Mega-Events! Original-Storys: Flashpoint: World of Flashpoint 1-3, Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost 1-3, Flashpoint: Citizen Cold 1-3, Flashpoint: Deathstroke & the Curse of the Ravager 1-3, Flashpoint: Reverse Flash 1, Flashpoint: The Canterbury Cricket 1 Autor: R. Ogle, S. Gates, S. Kolins, J. Palmiotti, M. Carlin, E. Francisco, P. Siqueira
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This carefully crafted ebook: "THE MAN WHO FORGOT (Psychological Thriller)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Man Who Forgot is an alcoholic who got himself to a point where he is unable to recall his own name or anything at all about his past. After a sobering experience that changes his life, he decides to forever give up drinking and turns temperance evangelist. Getting listed as John Smith, he dedicates his life to fight against alcohol and becomes dazzling agitator for nationwide prohibition. Smith campaigns across Washington preaching soberness, believed to be the truly great man… James Hay, Jr. (1881–1936) was American novelist and journalist, born in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Most of his books are crime mysteries and detective stories, some of which are set in Asheville, place where he spent part of his life, and worked as an editor in the Asheville Citizen magazine. Some of his other detective novels have their settings in Washington, where Hay spent his final years. Hay was the founder of the National Press Club, and had friendly relations with presidents Wilson and Taft.
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Eine Geschichte über Mut, Hybris, Liebe und Tod. Ein Roman über Menschen, die bedenkenlos nach den Sternen greifen. Ein Leben nach eigenen Regeln, alles dem Ziel untergeordnet, sich selbst in einer großartigen Tat zu verwirklichen. Eine mythische Geschichte vom Kampf des Claus Costes gegen die übermächtige Familie, geschildert aus der Sicht seines Freundes Bruno Hofmann. Claus Costes entzieht sich der Familientradition, als Autokonstrukteur zu arbeiten und entschließt sich, Filmproduzent und Regisseur zu werden. Er will mit einem Remake des Citizen Kane seinen Großvater anklagen, der Schuld auf sich geladen hat. Er lernt Melissa, die Tochter des Medientycoons Tarek, kennen und lieben. Als der Film fertiggestellt ist, glaubt auch Tarek, dass die Filmfigur Citizen Kane sich an seinem Leben orientiert und entführt seine Tochter, um sie von Claus Costes zu trennen. Beide Väter verschwören sich miteinander. Gemeinsam mit seinem Freund Bruno Hofmann nimmt Costes den Kampf auf. Gelingt es ihnen, Melissa aus der Gewalt Tareks zu befreien? Ein Roman aus der Welt des Big Business und dem Glamour der Filmbranche, über Menschen, die sich über ihren Zielen selbst verloren haben. Was Orson Welles in seinem berühmten Film Citizen Kane so einzigartig geschildert hat, wiederholt sich in den Etagen der Finanzwelt, der Industrie und beim Kampf der Medien gegeneinander. Man wird nicht ohne Schuld zum Sternenjäger. Der Preis der Macht ist oft die Deformierung der eigenen Persönlichkeit. Davon erzählt dieser Roman in dramatischen, oft erschütternden Bildern, über einen mythisch anmutenden Kampf zwischen Vätern und Kindern. Ein Thriller, der unter der glänzenden Oberfläche ein gewaltsames Leben zeigt, nicht minder erbarmungslos wie in griechischen Tragödien.
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Como botánica, Kimmerer formula preguntas sobre la naturaleza con las herramientas de la ciencia. Como miembro de la Citizen Potawatomi Nation, comparte la idea de que las plantas y los animales son nuestros maestros más antiguos. En Una trenza de hierba sagrada, Kimmerer une estas dos lentes del conocimiento para guiarnos en "un viaje que es tan mítico como científico, tan sagrado como histórico, tan inteligente como sabio", en palabras de la escritora Elizabeth Gilbert. Basándose en su vida como científica, indígena, madre y mujer, nos muestra cómo otros seres vivos nos ofrecen regalos e importantes lecciones, incluso aunque hayamos olvidado cómo escuchar sus voces. En una rica trenza de reflexiones que van desde la creación de Isla Tortuga hasta las fuerzas que amenazan hoy su florecimiento, Kimmerer despliega su idea central: el despertar de una conciencia ecológica requiere el reconocimiento y la celebración de nuestra relación recíproca con el resto del mundo viviente. Solo cuando podamos escuchar los lenguajes de otros seres seremos capaces de comprender la generosidad de la tierra y aprender a dar nuestros propios dones a cambio. Una trenza de hierba sagrada está destinado a ser un clásico de la escritura sobre la naturaleza.
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<p>"In the Vault' is a short story by American horror fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft, written on September 18, 1925 and first published in the November 1925 issue of the amateur press journal Tryout.</p> <p>George Birch, undertaker for the New England town of Peck Valley, finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring. When Birch stacks the coffins to reach a transom window, his feet break through the lid of the top coffin, injuring his ankles and forcing him to crawl out of the vault.</p> <p>Later, Dr. Davis investigates the vault, and finds that the top coffin was one of inferior workmanship, which Birch used as a repository for Asaph Sawyer, a vindictive citizen whom Birch had disliked, even though the coffin had originally been built for the much shorter Matthew Fenner. Davis finds that Birch had cut off Sawyer's feet in order to fit the body into the coffin, and the wounds in Birch's ankles are actually teeth marks.</p> <p>Famous works of the author Howard Phillips Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Horror at Red Hook, The Shadow Out of Time, The Shadows over Innsmouth, The Alchemist, Reanimator, Ex Oblivione, Azathoth, The Call of Cthulhu, The Cats of Ulthar, The Dunwich Horror, The Doom that Came to Sarnath, The Festival, The Silver Key, The Other Gods, The Outsider, The Temple, The Picture in the House, The Shunned House, The Terrible Old Man, The Tomb, Dagon, From Beyond, What the Moon Brings.</p>
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Romola, one of the best-known novels by George Eliot (C. P. P.), was originally published in 1863. The scene is in Florence, Italy, at the end of the fifteenth century. Roinola, the heroine, a daughter of the Italian family of Bardi, marries Tito Melema, a Greek, but the marriage proves a failure, and she sacrifices herself in devotion to the people during the plague. A marvellously able story of the revival of the taste and beauty and freedom of Hellenic manners and letters, under Lorenzo di Medici and the scholars of his Court, side by side with the revival of Roman virtue, and more than the ancient austerity and piety, under the great Dominican, Savonarola. The period of history is one which of all others may well have engrossing interest for George Eliot. Treasures of learning and discipline, amassed for mankind ages before, for ages stored and hidden away, see again the sun, are recognized and put to use. What use they will be put to, with what new and fruitful effects on the State and the citizen, with what momentary and with what lasting consequences, this she strives to discover ; this she follows through the public history of Italy during the modern invasion of Charles VIII., and the events which succeed his invasion, and through the private fortunes of her admirably chosen group of characters, some of them drawn from life, all of them true to nature.
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<p>Najczęściej wypowiadane kłamstwo to: „nie mam nic do ukrycia”.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Wydaje Ci się, że ktoś Cię śledzi? Czujesz się podsłuchiwany? Myślisz, że ktoś mógł poznać Twoje tajemnice? I to te najskrytsze, których nie zdradzasz nawet najbliższym? Masz… całkowitą rację. Nadeszła era wielkiej inwigilacji! Ale może da się jeszcze uratować prywatność?</p> <p> </p> <p>Ronald J. Deibert – człowiek, który ujawnił gigantyczne nadużycia związane z użyciem programu Pegasus, założyciel i szef Citizen Lab, znanej na całym świecie grupy badawczej do spraw cyberbezpieczeństwa – opisuje nowe problemy społeczne i polityczne, jakie przynosi rozwój cyfrowej cywilizacji.</p> <p> </p> <p>Szpiegują nas nie tylko komercyjne firmy, lecz także rozmaitej maści dyktatorzy, politycy z autorytarnymi zapędami czy służby specjalne. Wielka inwigilacja jest o tym, jak daleko są w stanie się posunąć i jak groźne jest to dla naszego bezpieczeństwa.</p> <p> </p> <p>Aby odzyskać internet dla nas samych, musimy go zresetować!</p>
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