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Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction - and federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is. When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together - but can he stop Wright from unleashing his weapon before it kills a million people...including the President of the United States?

Violência, anarquia e desintegração ditam o ritmo em Caracas. Nesse cenário desolador, Adelaida Falcón tem a vida destroçada pela morte da mãe. Logo depois do enterro, ela se depara com sua casa ocupada por um grupo de mulheres. Ao procurar ajuda, tenta falar com a vizinha, Aurora Peralta, conhecida como “a filha da espanhola”, mas a encontra morta. Em cima da mesa da sala, Adelaida vê documentos que podem mudar sua vida, dando início a uma jornada pela própria sobrevivência.

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia.

O Cortiço é um dos principais romances naturalistas brasileiros. O português João Romão, dono do cortiço, busca a ascensão social a todo custo, concorrendo com o dono do sobrado vizinho, Miranda. Se utilizando do trabalho duro da escrava fugida Bertoleza, o comerciante aluga mais casas em seu terreno, guardando cada centavo apenas para si. No cenário de uma habientação coletiva, Aluísio Azevedo adentra no cotidiano dos moradores dessas estalagens cariocas do século XIX, discutindo a influências das relações entre meio, raça e momento histórico na construção dessa sociedade.

When Muslim fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, making an already critical oil shortage calamitous, the Russians figure they are going to have to take things into their own hands. They plan to seize the Persian Gulf, and more ambitiously, to neutralize NATO. Thus begins Red Storm, an audacious gamble that uses diplomatic maneuver to cloak a crash military build-up.

1984 centers on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviors within society. Orwell modeled the totalitarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984 when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda.

At the end of the 18th century, two brilliant and eccentric young scientists set out to measure the world. Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Questions abound in the aftermath of the Little India riot. Hashwini wonders if she triggered the chaos. Jessica asks if she should reveal what truly happened in the ambulance. Sharon thinks that the catastrophe could be what she needs to boost her political career. The lives of three women intertwine when accident and coincidence collide. In Gimme Lao!-style hilarity, they become wrapped up in a web of truth, deception and political connections. This is a perceptive, fast-paced romp that asks "what if" of the riot that recently shook Singapore.

In the Nation, citizenship is competitively earned, and the sting of failure strikes swift. The smallest professional blemish may spell demotion or even deportation to offshore labour communities called Depositories, while the affluent are insured against all misfortune and can do no wrong. Santhosh is a Transient student hoping to ace the Civil Primaries and make Citizen the following year, when his father is suddenly deported and State agents murder his guardian's entire family.

رحلة الدم لم تنتهِ إذن..بل إن الدم أكثر وأغزر.

"الرجع البعيد" رواية تتناول حقبة مهمة ودموية من تاريخ العراق السياسي التي تُوّجت بانقلاب شباط العسكري... بطلا الرواية هما الأخوان مدحت وعبد الكريم، حيث ينجذب الاثنان نحو ابنة عمتهما المدرّسة الشابة منيرة، كل منهما حسب طريقته الخاصة، ويفشلان كلاهما في إنقاذها حين اغتُصبت في مدينة بعقوبة الريفية من ابن اختها عدنان الذي ينتمي إلى الحرس القومي...

FBI special agent Jessie Ridge and her skilled team work together to solve several new murder cases in Venton, Iowa. Things become dangerous when a corrupted senator is discovered operating a scam. All this happens as she tries to overcome her past before joining the bureau.

The Cockfight is a story about injustice and redemption. Although it is fiction, many of the facts concerning both the law and its application are or were authentic at the time story was set, and are still factual. The sad part is that in many situations, there is or has been little remedy for the wrongs that have been perpetrated against innocent people.

Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cosy existence she shares with her grandmother, a famous retired actress has been shattered: there's no telephone, no radio and an American warship sits in the harbour. England has withdrawn from the European Common Market and, on the brink of bankruptcy has decided that salvation lies in a union—political, military and economic—with the United States. Theoretically it is to be an equal partnership, but it soon begins to look like a takeover bid.

Si la historia de un país retrocediera hacia su fundación, si la ciudad fuera reduciéndose al tamaño del pueblo que alguna vez fue y luego fuera sólo un pastizal, ¿cómo sobreviviríamos? María Valdés Neylan atraviesa con valentía el vendaval del tiempo que se levanta en un repliegue histórico implacable.

Slade Steadman's lone opus, published twenty years ago, was Trespassing, a cult classic about his travels through dozens of countries without benefit of passport. With his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend Ava in tow, Steadman sets out for Ecuador’s jungle in search of a rare hallucinogenic drug and the cure for his writer’s block. Amid a gang of thrill-seeking tourists, he finds his drug and his inspiration but is beset with an unnerving side effect—periodic blindness.

En 1906 un acontecimiento real, el intento de volar el Observatorio de Greenwich por parte de un anarquista llamado Martial Bourdin, inspiró a Joseph Conrad el tema de un relato magistral. Sobre el telón de fondo del Londres de comienzos de siglo, una ciudad monstruosa e indiferente, se desarrolla la historia de un fallido atentado que revela el turbio entramado formado por el terrorismo internacional, la acción de la policía y la diplomacia deshonesta.

Nona Fernández plasma sus propios recuerdos, sus propias vivencias y las de sus contemporáneos, su punto de vista, un pensamiento y reflexión que expresa una mirada particular del mundo en que vivió y en el que hoy, pasados varios años y distintos gobiernos, parece seguir inmóvil y anestesiado ante los abusos cometidos. Recuperar nuestra conciencia sobre el pasado próximo es una tarea que autores como Nona Fernández utilizan a modo de una resistencia ética y política en su espacio de la literatura y el teatro.

Decades from now, the world is run by an authoritarian state called Qin. In Qin, every citizen is fitted with a Mindbank, an intracranial device capable of not only recording but transferring memories between minds. The technology gives birth to a new economy, referred to as Memory Capitalism, where anyone with means can relive the life experiences of others. It also unleashes opportunities for manipulation—memories can be edited, marketed, and even corrupted for personal gain.

Aim for Neutrality. We Need Better Sources. Anonymity is Fundamental. Keep Developing. The editors know these principles. The editors follow them every day—usually. The editors may not be recognized on the street, but they craft the information that is seen on nearly every internet search. Through Infopendium, a global, crowd-sourced internet encyclopedia, the editors influence the world. Freelance journalist Morgan Wentworth attends the Global Infopendium Conference in New York expecting a straightforward story to help pay the rent. But the so-called “pendium people” are full of surprises.