In the last decades, digitalization has been enormously pushing innovation with a stunning impact on economy and society. In this book, the author illustrates that blockchain is one strong driver of the future digital economy, enabling a higher level of efficiency, trust, and legal security. As regulation can decide how a jurisdiction can participate in this development, the author discusses the current and future regulatory challenges and explains, why applying financial market laws for all Token Economy is not appropriate and would hinder its development. Consequently, he argues for a new regulatory fundament for Token Economy - as the Principality of Liechtenstein has introduced in 2020 - and explains the political regulatory decisions of the so-called »Blockchain-Act«. The author pleads also in favour of establishing a new regulatory framework for Token Financial Markets and drafts its cornerstones. In addition to that, he describes the need for an innovation process for the legal framework and emphasizes the importance of the innovation culture of governments and authorities to keep pace with the technological developments and ensure future prosperity.
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A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC. But there are rules: He cannot look inside the box. He cannot ask questions. He cannot tell anyone. They must leave immediately. He must leave all trackable devices behind. As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social media that the box is part of a carefully orchestrated terror attack intended to plunge the USA into civil war. The truth promises to be even stranger, and may change how you see the world.
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A taxi-driver in 1930s Vienna impersonates a murder victim-with unsettling consequences "One doesn't step into anyone's life, not even a dead man's, without having to live it to the end." A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. And though Sponer has so far committed no crime, he is drawn into the late Jack Mortimer's life, and might not be able to escape its tangles and intrigues before it is too late... Twice filmed, I Was Jack Mortimer is a tale of misappropriated identity as darkly captivating and twisting as the books of Patricia Highsmith. Alexander Lernet-Holenia was born in Vienna in 1897. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and became a protégé of Rainer Maria Rilke. During his life he wrote poetry, novels, plays and was a successful screenwriter. His uneasy relationship with the National Socialist Party resulted in his removal from prominence in 1944, but after the end of the Second World War, he again became a vital figure in Austrian cultural life. He died in 1976.
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In the summer of 1961, Stanley Johnson, accompanied by Tim Severin and Michael de Larrabeiti, set out from Oxford on two BSA 500cc Shooting Star motorcycles to follow Marco Polo's route from Venice to Beijing. Although they came tantalizingly close to the Chinese frontier, they were forced to divert to India. With one motorcycle out of action, the three of them rode the remaining machine down the Grand Truck Road from Kabul to Calcutta. In 2023, Stanley set off again with his fourth son, Max, to finish the journey he had started sixty-two years earlier. With a brilliant camera-crew in tow, they followed Marco Polo's precise route across China, all the way to the Summer Palace of Kubla Khan in Xanadu and on to Beijing itself. This book tells the tale of an extraordinary dream come true.
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Three articulated trucks load in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: two Volvo 4X2 European road artics and a Mercedes 6X6 desert artic. Their destination is Sharawrah, somewhere south of The Empty Quarter. Seven days to travel a thousand kilometers, a third of which are open desert. Seven days that will turn into seventy.... This is the true story of Gordon Pearce, an English truck driver determined to get the job done. With the help of Bedouins, he crossed three hundred kilometers of unpredictable desert in the height of the summer of 1978. Aside from the physical challenges, he also has to battle bureaucracy and begins to dread hearing the word bukkera (tomorrow). Told in an ironic modest style and illustrated with photos from that time, Where's Sharawrah? is a captivating book for vehicle enthusiasts and anyone who is passionate about truck adventures. [Subject: Memoir, Transportation]
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Many would argue that the 1980s were a better time for truck drivers than nowadays: there were no cell phones, there was less traffic on the road, CB radio was all the rage, and stickers were the simple heart of truck customizing. However, the transport industry is constantly evolving and companies must adapt their vehicles to keep pace with the developments. As a result, vehicle design and liveries regularly change. Many of the companies around in the 1980s have expired and been forgotten. Most of the trucks from that time are long gone to the great scrapyard in the sky! David Wakefield has been working in the transport industry for over 30 years and has been taking photographs of trucks since the early 1980s. He has amassed thousands of high-quality images, producing one of the most comprehensive photographic collections of the time, but many of his photographs have never been previously published. In this vivid compilation, Nick Ireland has collated 300 of David's images from the 1980s in order to preserve them and make them publicly available for the first time. The book features trucks from all over the world, and it is a must-have for current and former truckers who will enjoy being reminded of 'the good old days, ' as well as anyone else with an interest in transport history. [Subject: History, Transportation, Photography
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Victims all describe hearing a voice before they die gruesomely. Sometimes it's singing an old Taiwanese song, sometimes it's in Japanese, and sometimes it's an anguished call for help from a loved one. Can Wu Shih-Sheng, a degenerate taxi driver in Taipei, hunt down the source of the voice that killed his wife before he becomes the next victim? Whisper is a plot-driven, Taiwanese horror story. As well as being a chilling read, Chang Yu-Ko cleverly combines Taiwanese folklore, the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, and the long-term mistreatment of the country's aboriginal people into a story of how the past can still kill.
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<p><strong>Trochę podręcznik, trochę przewodnik, multisynteza, quasi-monografia i historycznoliteracki monster truck w jednym.</strong></p> <p></p> <p>Czas akcji: 1976–2020</p> <p>Przestrzeń: kultura polska</p> <p>Bohater: literackie gatunki narracyjne</p> <p></p> <p>Przemysław Czapliński, jeden z najwybitniejszych współczesnych historyków literatury i krytyków literackich, przedstawia aktualną syntezę najważniejszych zjawisk, nurtów i tematów we współczesnej polskiej prozie. Punkty orientacyjne jego opowieści wyznaczają następujące przez kolejne dekady emancypacje: od opresyjnej władzy, wielkich narracji i stereotypowych modeli tożsamości, od rozmaitych uwikłań w przeszłość i pułapek przyszłości.</p> <p>W ujęciu Czaplińskiego proza jest przewodniczką po zawirowaniach polskiej historii najnowszej. Nie tylko przewrotną rejestratorką historycznych zjawisk, ale także ich aktywną uczestniczką i współtwórczynią. Jak pisze autor: „Literatura nie zmienia historii. Zmienia narracje, którymi o sobie w historii opowiadamy”. Narodziny kultury niezależnej, transformacja, Europa wyobrażona, pisanie kobiet, zwrot ludowy, reportaż, fantastyka i fantasy – to niektóre z tematów podejmowanych w tej książce.</p> <p><em>Rozbieżne emancypacje </em>to praca napisana z największym znawstwem, a jednocześnie wyjątkowo komunikatywna i przejrzysta kompozycyjnie. Znakomity – i tak dziś potrzebny – przewodnik po coraz bardziej rozproszonym świecie współczesnej prozy polskiej.</p> <p></p> <p>„Czapliński przedstawia literaturę polską w ujęciu – co tu kryć – brawurowym i imponującym. Jego spojrzenie jest wielowymiarowe, bynajmniej nie ogranicza się do spraw literackich. Zajmuje się zróżnicowaną, wielodomenową przestrzenią kultury polskiej, odnosi się do spraw ideowych i politycznych, do nadwiślańskich sporów i konfliktów – o emancypację, o nowoczesność i późną nowoczesność, o kapitalizm i pamięć historyczną. O tej książce należy myśleć w kategoriach wydarzenia intelektualnego”.</p> <p>Dariusz Nowacki</p>
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