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It's 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. Life is as normal as it gets for Maxine, until she starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO. With occasional excursions into ...

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Thomas Pynchons zeitloses Meisterwerk erstmals als Hörspiel inszeniert Das Leben als Parabel. Parabelförmig ist die Flugbahn zwischen zwei Punkten, ist die Flugbahn der deutschen V-Waffen im Zweiten Weltkrieg, deren Entwicklung und Einsatz nur einen der zahllosen Handlungsstränge dieses Pandämoniums darstellen. Eine der Hauptfiguren ist der GI Tyrone Slothrop, der eine Erektion bekommt, bevor eine V2-Rakete einschlägt. Als lebendiges Frühwar...

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Excerpt from Bishop Butler, a Religious Philosopher for All Time: A Sketch of His Life With an Examination of the "Analogy"Sermons on moral subjects and the Analogy, like the important works of other men of great intellectual superiority and profound thought, can not be correctly appreciated, or, indeed, truly comprehended, unless they are looked at and approached from the right point of View.For the purpose of rendering some assistance in gai...

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Excerpt from The Chemical Forces: Heat Expansion, Light and Electricity of an the to Chemical Physics, Designed for the Use of Academies, Colleges, and Medical Schools Light Houses As the merit of an elementary treatise like the present, must consist rather in the judgment shown in the selection and ar rangement of materials than in the originality of its contents, the Author has not scrupled to avail himself of aid from every quarter. The wo...

The Chemical Forces - heat - light - electricity - an introduction to chemical physics, designed for the use of academies, colleges, and medical schools is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1871. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of histori...

Excerpt from Bishop Butler, a Religious Philosopher for All Time: A Sketch of His Life With an Examination of the "Analogy" Sermons on moral subjects and the Analogy, like the important works of other men of great intellectual superiority and profound thought, can not be correctly appreciated, or, indeed, truly comprehended, unless they are looked at and approached from the right point of View. For the purpose of rendering some assistance in...

Chi è V.? V. è una donna, Vittoria, Veronica, Violet, ma è anche ogni donna. V. è una città, un regno immaginario, un topo convertito da un prete nelle fogne di New York. V. è l'ossessione che attanaglia gli essere umani di tutti i tempi. V. è lo spiraglio di luce verso cui tendere, al fondo di un vicolo che sembrava cieco. E la faticosa ricerca di sé in un mondo dove è sempre più difficile restare umani. V. è un labirinto di storie in cui è m...

Nell'Inghilterra della seconda guerra mondiale, minacciata dai missili V2, il tenente americano Tyrone Slothrop è dotato di una facoltà tutta particolare: avverte in anticipo la caduta dei razzi grazie all'eccitazione sessuale. Per questa prerogativa viene tenuto sotto controllo dai servizi segreti e dagli scienziati. Avvertendo che contro di lui si sta architettando qualcosa fugge da Londra. Il libro, parabola sulla guerra e la tecnologia, ra...

New York, 2001, nel breve intervallo tra il crollo delle società dot-com e l'11 settembre. Maxine Tarnow, separata, due figli piccoli da crescere, ha una piccola agenzia di investigazioni a Manhattan, specializzata in frodi. Da quando le hanno tolto la licenza, può permettersi di fare il mestiere come più le aggrada, girando con una Beretta, frequentando un mondo ai margini della legalità, dedicandosi a piccole operazioni di hackeraggio. Mentr...

A quarant'anni dalla prima edizione, "L'arcobaleno della gravità" non ha perso nulla della sua vertigine e della sua potenza. Londra sotto i bombardamenti, i razzi V-2 di Hitler, precognizioni ed esperimenti bizzarri, un misterioso Testo, la Zona in cui si addentra l'antieroe Tyrone Slothrop alla ricerca di un'arma apocalittica: un esercito di personaggi e una proliferazione febbrile di trame disegnano un'opera in continuo mutamento, un codice...

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A historical romance in the early days of the Internet. Follows fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow as she looks into a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO and gets mixed up with Russian mobs, drug runners and more. Now in paperback.

La novel·la més àcida de Thomas Pynchon, autor nord-americà imprescindible, ens transporta a la Califòrnia psicodèlica de finals dels anys seixanta: un retrat hilarant i corrosiu del final d¿una era de llibertat. Barbies en biquini, especuladors immobiliaris, policies corruptes, surfers il·luminats, hippies, rockers, jugadors i sobretot molt de fum de marihuana: l¿aire que envolta el detectiu Doc Sportello no podria estar més viciat. La seva e...

Una obra magna de la literatura contemporània. Per al New York Times: ¿Un trencaclosques gegantí, ambiciós sense ser provocador, el¿líptic sense ser il¿luminat, complex sense ser complicat¿. La tripulació de l¿Inconvenience, els Amics de l¿Aventura, sobrevola mar i terra en una nova missió secreta, a finals del segle XIX. Però... A contrallum és una novel¿la èpica? Un llibre de ciència-ficció? Un drama bèl¿lic? Un exponent de la cultura pop? U...