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Qualityland

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Author : Marc-Uwe Kling
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-01-07

Qualityland written by Marc-Uwe Kling and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-07 with Fiction categories.

In the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn't built for you? Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and helps with the break up when your ideal match (frequently) changes. And the foolproof algorithms of the biggest, most successful company in the world, TheShop, know what you want before you do and conveniently deliver to your doorstep before you even order it. In QualityCity, Peter Jobless is a machine scrapper who can't quite bring himself to destroy the imperfect machines sent his way, and has become the unwitting leader of a band of robotic misfits hidden in his home and workplace. One day, Peter receives a product from TheShop that he absolutely, positively knows he does not want, and which he decides, at great personal cost, to return. The only problem: doing so means proving the perfect algorithm of TheShop wrong, calling into question the very foundations of QualityLand itself. Qualityland, Marc-Uwe Kling's first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly clever, illuminating satire in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and George Orwell that offers a visionary, frightening, and all-too funny glimpse at a near future we may be hurtling toward faster than it's at all comfortable to admit. So why delay any longer? TheShop already knows you're going to love this book. You may as well head to the cash register, crack the covers, and see why that is for yourself.

Qualityland

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Author : Marc-Uwe Kling
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-01-07

Qualityland written by Marc-Uwe Kling and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-07 with Fiction categories.

In the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn't built for you? Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and helps with the break up when your ideal match (frequently) changes. And the foolproof algorithms of the biggest, most successful company in the world, TheShop, know what you want before you do and conveniently deliver to your doorstep before you even order it. In QualityCity, Peter Jobless is a machine scrapper who can't quite bring himself to destroy the imperfect machines sent his way, and has become the unwitting leader of a band of robotic misfits hidden in his home and workplace. One day, Peter receives a product from TheShop that he absolutely, positively knows he does not want, and which he decides, at great personal cost, to return. The only problem: doing so means proving the perfect algorithm of TheShop wrong, calling into question the very foundations of QualityLand itself. Qualityland, Marc-Uwe Kling's first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly clever, illuminating satire in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and George Orwell that offers a visionary, frightening, and all-too funny glimpse at a near future we may be hurtling toward faster than it's at all comfortable to admit. So why delay any longer? TheShop already knows you're going to love this book. You may as well head to the cash register, crack the covers, and see why that is for yourself.

Qualityland

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Author : Marc-Uwe Kling
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-01-09

Qualityland written by Marc-Uwe Kling and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-09 with Fiction categories.

THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU. YES, YOU SPECIFICALLY. WELCOME TO QUALITYLAND. We hope you enjoy your trip to the happiest, most advanced place on earth. QualityLand is the world's first 2.0 country, where everything is run by infallible algorithm, including: - Society (in which everyone is ranked by level) - Shopping (orders arrive before you even know you want them) - Relationships (you will be notified instantly if there is a better match) In fact, this very algorithm selected you to visit QualityLand. If you don't like it, you're not just ungrateful - you're also wrong, because the algorithm is always right. While you're visiting, be aware there is an election going on - the perfect time to see QualityLand in action... ENJOY YOUR TRIP! * * * * * USER TESTIMONIALS: 'Nineteen Eighty-Four meets Vonnegutian slap stick in a free-wheeling satire spliced with black humour and some gloriously wicked social commentary.' The Guardian 'QUALITYLAND is very funny and very scary - my kind of book.' Mike Judge, creator of Silicon Valley & King of the Hill 'The best kind of satire, offering up a funhouse mirror version of our world that is so smart and so cutting, you have to laugh to keep from crying.' Rob Hart, author of The Warehouse 'This is spot-on satire.' Publishers Weekly 'Kling's sharp observations expose with delightful brutality how close QualityLand is to reality.' Booklist 'How much you enjoy this is in direct proportion to how much trouble you think we're all in. Sleep tight.' Kirkus Reviews 'Wow, what a hilarious yet deeply concerning joyride into the future that surely awaits us.' You, after you've read QualityLand

Qualityland

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Author : Marc-Uwe Kling
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017

Qualityland written by Marc-Uwe Kling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Fiction categories.

Willkommen in QualityLand, in einer nicht allzu fernen Zukunft: Alles läuft rund - Arbeit, Freizeit und Beziehungen sind von Algorithmen optimiert. Trotzdem beschleicht den Maschinenverschrotter Peter Arbeitsloser immer mehr das Gefühl, dass mit seinem Leben etwas nicht stimmt. Wenn das System wirklich so perfekt ist, warum gibt es dann Drohnen, die an Flugangst leiden, oder Kampfroboter mit posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung? Warum werden die Maschinen immer menschlicher, aber die Menschen immer maschineller? Marc-Uwe Kling hat die Verheissungen und das Unbehagen der digitalen Gegenwart zu einer verblüffenden Zukunftssatire verdichtet, die lange nachwirkt. Visionär, hintergründig - und so komisch wie die Känguru-Trilogie. (Quelle: buchhandel.de).

The Kangaroo Chronicles

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Author : Marc-Uwe Kling
language : en
Publisher: Voland & Quist
Release Date : 2016-05-13

The Kangaroo Chronicles written by Marc-Uwe Kling and has been published by Voland & Quist this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-13 with Fiction categories.

Marc-Uwe lives together with a kangaroo. The kangaroo is a communist and it is really into Nirvana. It's a classical Berlin flat-sharing community, where the deep questions of life are debated: Is lying in a hammock already a kind of passive resistance? Must the Kangaroo place its pouch onto the conveyor belt at the airport security check? Did the Kangaroo really fight for the Vietcong? And why is it addicted to champagne truffles?

The Body Scout

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Author : Lincoln Michel
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-09-21

The Body Scout written by Lincoln Michel and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-21 with Fiction categories.

In this “timeless and original” sci-fi thriller (New York Times), a hardboiled baseball scout must solve the murder of his brother in a world transformed by body modification, perfect for readers of William Gibson and Max Barry. An Esquire Pick for the Top 50 Sci-Fi Books of All Time A New York Times Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novel of 2021 "A breathlessly paced techno-thriller characterized by stunning, spiky worldbuilding." — Esquire In the future you can have any body you want—as long as you can afford it. But in a New York ravaged by climate change and repeat pandemics, Kobo is barely scraping by. He scouts the latest in gene-edited talent for Big Pharma-owned baseball teams, but his own cybernetics are a decade out of date and twin sister loan sharks are banging down his door. Things couldn't get much worse. Then his brother—Monsanto Mets slugger J.J. Zunz—is murdered at home plate. Determined to find the killer, Kobo plunges into a world of genetically modified CEOs, philosophical Neanderthals, and back-alley body modification, only to quickly find he's in a game far bigger and more corrupt than he imagined. To keep himself together while the world is falling apart, he'll have to navigate a time where both body and soul are sold to the highest bidder. Diamond-sharp and savagely wry, The Body Scout is a timely science fiction thriller debut set in an all-too-possible future. "I devoured it." —Jonathan Lethem "Completely weird and still completely real. Delightful—I couldn't put it down."—Shea Serrano

Principles Of Sustainable Development

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Author : F. Douglas Muschett
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-10-19

Principles Of Sustainable Development written by F. Douglas Muschett and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-19 with Law categories.

This book brings together the collective thinking, ecological perspectives, and experiences of individuals from air quality, land use and transportation disciplines who are working to advance and operationalize sustainable development.

D Arc

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Author : Robert Repino
language : en
Publisher: Soho Press
Release Date : 2017-05-09

D Arc written by Robert Repino and has been published by Soho Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-09 with Fiction categories.

With the fragile interspecies peace that followed the War With No Name under assault from land and sea, Sheba and Mort(e) have no choice but to take up their arms and enter once again into the conflict that threatened to tear them apart. “Repino's dog, cat, and beaver soldiers are nakedly real, as honest as any characters in modern fiction. As horrible as it may sound, may The War With No Name never end." —Corey Redekop, author of Husk In the aftermath of the War With No Name, the Colony has been defeated, its queen lies dead, and the world left behind will never be the same. In her madness, the queen used a strange technology to uplift the surface animals, turning dogs and cats, bats and bears, pigs and wolves into intelligent, highly evolved creatures who rise up and kill their oppressors. And now, after years of bloodshed, these sentient beasts must learn to live alongside their sworn enemies—humans. Far removed from this newly emerging civilization, a housecat turned war hero named Mort(e) lives a quiet life with the love he thought he had lost, a dog named Sheba. But before long, the chaos that they escaped comes crashing in around them. An unstoppable monster terrorizes a nearby settlement of beavers. A serial killer runs amok in the holy city of Hosanna. An apocalyptic cult threatens the fragile peace. And a mysterious race of amphibious creatures rises from the seas, intent on fulfilling the Colony’s destiny and ridding the world of all humans. No longer able to run away, Sheba and Mort(e) rush headlong into the conflict, ready to fight but unprepared for a world that seems hell-bent on tearing them apart. In the twilight of all life on Earth, love survives, but at a cost that only the desperate and the reckless are willing to pay.

The Unicorn That Said No

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Author : Marc-Uwe Kling
language : en
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Release Date : 2021-04-15

The Unicorn That Said No written by Marc-Uwe Kling and has been published by Kings Road Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-15 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

In the prettiest parts of the Forest of Hearts, a cute little unicorn was born. Its mane was puffy, its fur SUPER fluffy... But as adorable as it looked, it didn't behave like the other unicorns in its herd. 'NO' was its favourite word! No matter how many sweet lucky clovers or soft squishy cuddles that the other unicorns offered, the answer was always 'NO'. And so this unicorn became known as the uNOcorn. It's no surprise that one day our contrary unicorn decides to break free of its cotton-candy world and have an adventure of its own. Along the way, the uNOcorn meets a raccoon who never listens ('Huh?'), a dog who doesn't care ('So what?') and a rude princess (whose favourite word is 'YES!'). What a wonderful team they make, because being stubborn is much more fun together!

Soil Specific Farming

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Author : Rattan Lal
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2015-08-20

Soil Specific Farming written by Rattan Lal and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-20 with Nature categories.

Faced with challenges of resource scarcity and environmental degradation, it is important to adopt innovative farming systems that maximize resource efficiency while protecting the environment. Soil-Specific Farming: Precision Agriculture focuses on principles and applications of soil-specific farming, providing information on rapidly evolving agricultural technologies. It addresses assessments of soil variability and application of modern innovations to enhance use efficiency of fertilizers, irrigation, tillage, and pesticides through targeted management of soils and crops. This book provides the technological basis of adopting and promoting precision agriculture (PA) for addressing the issues of resource scarcity, environmental pollution, and climate change. It focuses specifically on PA technologies and discusses historical evolution, soil variability at different scales, soil fertility and nutrient management, water quality, land leveling techniques, and special ecosystems involving small landholders and coastal regions. Highlighting the scale-related issues and concerns of small landholders, the text details the efficient use of resources on the basis of soil/field variability and site-specific conditions. It examines how PA technology can increase productivity, enhance profitability, and minimize environmental degradation. Woven throughout is the theme of sustainable use of resources.