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Die Sonne tuts nach wie vor, das Wasser steigt unaufhaltsam, in New York baut man Wolkenkratzer als Staudämme und in Berlin wird das erschöpfte Bundeskanzleramt von einem Kollektiv übernommen, das sich der Teilhabe aller verschrieben hat. Es sind die derzeit zu beobachtenden klimatologischen, technologischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen, denen sich wir zaudern, wir brennen mit poetischem Eifer stellt und dabei Antworten zu finden sucht...

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It is 1993, the banking world is in turmoil, and in New Jersey, there is outright panic. The big New York banks and emerging regionals are gobbling up everything in the state. Every financial institution is now both predator and prey. The Fed has opened the floodgates, and traditional banking ethics are disappearing. At a used book sale, Jim Fairmont, a career banker having worked for First State Bank for more than twenty-five years, finds a b...

Midsummer in the lowcountry of South Carolina is a dreamy, quiet time. Professor Sidney Lake uses this respite for literary research and planning his next semester, but his Gullah housekeeper, Tillie James, has other plans for him. She needs his help in dealing with a touchy subject: the death of George Reed and the suspicions it aroused that his wife Becky was involved, even though the coroner and the police chief declared Reed's death an unf...

San Francisco's Bernal Heights is a hilltop village tucked away in the southern part of the city. Freeways and urban thoroughfares now bound the neighborhood, once defined by the swamps and creeks of the original Mexican land grant. The legacy of Potrero Viejo, or "old pasture, " and the farms of the 19th and 20th centuries have developed into today's passion for the preservation of open space. From the 1860s legend of Widow O'Brien's cow to t...

A young Dutchman joins the pirate rebels who lead the 16th Century resistance against Spain.

A young Dutchman joins the pirate rebels who lead the 16th Century resistance against Spain.