Das Verschwinden Der Erde
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Das Verschwinden Der Erde
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Author : Julia Phillips
language : de
Publisher: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
Release Date : 2021-01-22
Das Verschwinden Der Erde written by Julia Phillips and has been published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-22 with Fiction categories.
Über Verlust, Überleben und die Kraft der Hoffnung An einem Sommertag an der Küste Kamtschatkas verschwinden die russischen Schwestern Sofija und Aljona. Das Verbrechen erinnert an einen Vorfall nur Monate zuvor in der indigenen Bevölkerung. Wie eine düstere Wolke hängt der ungelöste Fall fortan über Kamtschatka und beeinflusst das Leben ganz unterschiedlicher Frauen in einer gespaltenen, männerdominierten Gesellschaft. Während das Netz zwischen den Einzelschicksalen dichter wird, hält die Suche nach den Mädchen die ganze Stadt in Aufruhr. Brillant konstruiert und einfühlsam erzählt, entführt uns der Roman in eine extreme und faszinierende Welt am Rande der Welt: in die graue Stadt Petropawlowsk, die spektakulären Weiten der Tundra und die Schatten schneebedeckter Vulkane.
Disappearing Earth
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Author : Julia Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-07-11
Disappearing Earth written by Julia Phillips and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-11 with Fiction categories.
Beautifully written, thought-provoking, intense and cleverly wrought, this is the most extraordinary first novel from a mesmerising new talent. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducted. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Set on the remote Siberian peninsula of Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth draws us into the world of an astonishing cast of characters, all connected by an unfathomable crime. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty – densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska – and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel provides a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before. Praise for Disappearing Earth "A genuine masterpiece, but one that is easily consumed in a feverish stay-up-all-night bout of reading pleasure." Gary Shteyngart “Suspenseful, original and compelling, Disappearing Earth is a strange and haunting voyage into a strange and haunting world.' Simon Sebag-Montefiore, author of The Romanovs “Julia Phillips is at once a careful cartographer and gorgeous storyteller... . A mystery of two missing girls burns at the center of this astonishing debut, and the complexity of ethnicity, gender, hearth and kin illuminates this question and many more.” Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage 'A knock-out... .The stitches of Phillips’s language make you go, Damn, that’s good.' The Los Angeles Review of Books 'A superb debut.' New York Times
The World Without Us
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Author : Alan Weisman
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-08-31
The World Without Us written by Alan Weisman and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-31 with Science categories.
Revised Edition with New Afterword from the Author Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Over 3 million copies sold in 35 Languages "On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them right off the face of the earth. They all go." What if mankind disappeared right now, forever... what would happen to the Earth in a week, a year, a millennium? Could the planet's climate ever recover from human activity? How would nature destroy our huge cities and our myriad plastics? And what would our final legacy be? Speaking to experts in fields as diverse as oil production and ecology, and visiting the places that have escaped recent human activity to discover how they have adapted to life without us, Alan Weisman paints an intriguing picture of the future of Earth. Exploring key concerns of our time, this absorbing thought experiment reveals a powerful - and surprising - picture of our planet's future.
The Disappearance Of Rituals
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Author : Byung-Chul Han
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2020-10-26
The Disappearance Of Rituals written by Byung-Chul Han and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with Social Science categories.
Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society, where the loss of the symbolic structures inherent in ritual behaviour has led to overdependence on the contingent to steer identity. Avoiding saccharine nostalgia for the rituals of the past, Han provides a genealogy of their disappearance as a means of diagnosing the pathologies of the present. He juxtaposes a community without communication – where the intensity of togetherness in silent recognition provides structure and meaning – to today’s communication without community, which does away with collective feelings and leaves individuals exposed to exploitation and manipulation by neoliberal psycho-politics. The community that is invoked everywhere today is an atrophied and commoditized community that lacks the symbolic power to bind people together. For Han, it is only the mutual praxis of recognition borne by the ritualistic sharing of the symbolic between members of a community which creates the footholds of objectivity allowing us to make sense of time. This new book by one of the most creative cultural theorists writing today will be of interest to a wide readership.
Six Days
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Author : Philip Webb
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Release Date : 2011
Six Days written by Philip Webb and has been published by Scholastic Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Cass and her brother Wilbur scavenge in the ruins of a future London seeking an artifact for their Russian masters, but the search takes on a new urgency after the arrival of Erin and Peyto, strangers from afar who claim to hold the key to locating the mysterious object.
Spin
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Author : Robert Charles Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-09-29
Spin written by Robert Charles Wilson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-29 with Fiction categories.
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives. The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk - a heat source, rather than an astronomical object. The moon is gone, but tides remain. Not only have the world's artificial satellites fallen out of orbit, their recovered remains are pitted and aged, as though they'd been in space far longer than their known lifespans. As Tyler, Jason, and Diane grow up, space probe reveals a bizarre truth: The barrier is artificial, generated by huge alien artifacts. Time is passing faster outside the barrier than inside - more than a hundred million years per day on Earth. At this rate, the death throes of the sun are only about forty years in our future. Jason, now a promising young scientist, devotes his life to working against this slow-moving apocalypse. Diane throws herself into hedonism, marrying a sinister cult leader who's forged a new religion out of the fears of the masses. Earth sends terraforming machines to Mars to let the onrush of time do its work, turning the planet green. Next they send humans...and immediately get back an emissary with thousands of years of stories to tell about the settling of Mars. Then Earth's probes reveal that an identical barrier has appeared around Mars. Jason, desperate, seeds near space with self-replicating machines that will scatter copies of themselves outward from the sun - and report back on what they find. Life on Earth is about to get much, much stranger.
The Vanishing Season
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Author : Joanna Schaffhausen
language : en
Publisher: Titan Books
Release Date : 2018-02-27
The Vanishing Season written by Joanna Schaffhausen and has been published by Titan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-27 with Fiction categories.
"A gripping debut with a plot twist readers won't see coming."―HALLIE EPHRON, author of Night Night, Sleep TightA chilling tale of suspense for fans of Julia Heaberlin. Fourteen years ago, teenager Ellery Hathaway was victim number seventeen in the grisly murder spree of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. She was the only one who lived.Now Coben is safely behind bars, and Ellery has a new identity in a sleepy town where bike theft makes the newspapers. But each July for the last three years, locals have been disappearing. Then Ellery receives strange messages hinting that the culprit knows exactly what happened to her all those years ago. When she tries to raise the alarm, no one will listen, and terrified she may be next, Ellery must turn to the one person who might believe her story...
3001
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Author : Arthur C. Clarke
language : en
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Release Date : 2012-11-30
3001 written by Arthur C. Clarke and has been published by RosettaBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-30 with Fiction categories.
The mysteries of the monoliths are revealed in this inspired conclusion to the Hugo Award–winning Space Odyssey series—“there are marvels aplenty” (The New York Times). On an ill-fated mission to Jupiter in 2001, the mutinous supercomputer HAL sent crewmembers David Bowman and Frank Poole into the frozen void of space. Bowman’s strange transformation into a Star Child is traced through the novels 2010 and 2061. But now, a thousand years after his death, Frank Poole is brought back to life—and thrust into a world far more technically advanced than the one he left behind. Poole discovers a world of human minds interfacing directly with computers, genetically engineered dinosaur servants, and massive space elevators built around the equator. He also discovers an impending threat to humanity lurking within the enigmatic monoliths. To fight it, Poole must join forces with Bowman and HAL, now fused into one corporeal consciousness—and the only being with the power to thwart the monoliths’ mysterious creators. “3001 is not just a page-turner, plugged in to the great icons of HAL and the monoliths, but a book of wisdom too, pithy and provocative.” —New Scientist
Ghoulia And The Mysterious Visitor Book 2
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Author : Barbara Cantini
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2019-08-13
Ghoulia And The Mysterious Visitor Book 2 written by Barbara Cantini and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-13 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A rollicking mystery with an unexpected hero, this fully-illustrated chapter book continues the adventures of Ghoulia, a lovable, not-so-scary zombie. One dark and stormy night, Ghoulia’s cousin Dilbert comes to visit her at Crumbling Manor. She’s confused—she didn’t invite him, and it turns out that Dilbert’s a real grouch. He complains about everything! When Ghoulia tries to track down Auntie Departed to find out why she invited Dilbert, she finds that Auntie has vanished. Ghoulia can’t find her. And the doorbell won’t stop ringing. One after another, Ghoulia’s friends arrive—all with the same mysterious invitation in hand. As the gang searches Crumbling Manor for Auntie Departed, one of their own goes missing. Finally, Dilbert inadvertently solves the mystery in the greenhouse when he finds himself face-to-face with the sinister Chatterbox Ivy. Clue meets Little Shop of Horrors in this fun romp, which includes full-color illustrations and kid-friendly activities.
Hexwood
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Author : Diana Wynne Jones
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Hexwood written by Diana Wynne Jones and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
“All I did was ask you for a role-playing game. You never warned me I’d be pitched into it for real! And I asked you for hobbits on a Grail quest, and not one hobbit have I seen!”