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Eva tiene doce años, mucha curiosidad y un sinfÃn de preguntas. Cuando conoce a Ray, un sabio inventor algo chiflado, descubre que no todo es lo que parece y que las respuestas no siempre son lo más importante.
Cuando crees que tienes todas las respuestas, van y te cambian las preguntas...
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Get the Summary of Michael Smith and Rahul Telang's Streaming Sharing Stealing in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In this book, Michael Smith and Rahul Telang, experts on entertainment analytics, show how the success of House of Cards upended the film and TV industries-and how companies like Amazon and Apple are changing the rules in other entertainment industries, notably publishing...
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A scientist known for unraveling the complexities of the universe over millions of years, Sir Martin Rees now warns that humankind is potentially the maker of its own demise -- and that of the cosmos. Though the twenty-first century could be the critical era in which life on Earth spreads beyond our solar system, it is just as likely that we have endangered the future of the entire universe. With clarity and precision, Rees maps out the ways technology...
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"Inspired to contribute to the symbiotic relationship between the academic and activist worlds, Day has decided to pick up the pen instead of the Molotov cocktail. The result is this brilliant book."
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Ann was sentenced to life imprisonment for blowing up a cruise-missile component factory, and is the author of Direct Action: The Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla
"If revolutionary politics are to be reconstituted for the twenty-first...
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The logline goes like this-A gifted artist, a b-boy, a marine, a hacker, and an Angel attempt to stop Armageddon. The inspiration for writing this short series of books called "The Demiurge, A Hip Hop Conspiracy Fable" is because I've always been one of those minor percentage of people that questioned their reality, their life, and their own existence. This is a very short date with life itself, I realized at an early age. Facts are, I've been through...
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Strictly off limits to the public, Plum Island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests, ponds -- and the deadliest germs that have ever roamed the planet. Lab 257 blows the lid off the stunning true nature and checkered history of Plum Island. It shows that the seemingly bucolic island in the shadow of New York City is a ticking biological time bomb that none of us can safely ignore.
Based on declassified government documents, in-depth interviews,...
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This book is for the reader who takes interest in an age-old issue that remains contemporary with every succeeding generation. When, how, and why we are here are questions that have caused countless generations of thinkers and laymen alike to intuitively seek at the very least the semblance of an answer to questions that have become more of an outlook than a science, and in turn, spring up among the problems of modern life as opposed to allowing for...
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This book describes how Irish women have always played a key role in the struggle for independence. The author depicts the role women have played in the 'Irish struggle' from 1881 to the present day, particularly in the crucial post 1916 period, and in so doing underlines the irony whereby 'fellow' nationalists, despite their common struggle, remained factionalised. The author focuses on three pivotal Irish nationalist women's organisations – the...
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The media has told us for over twenty five years that the conflict in Northern Ireland is irrational and has 'no objective social basis'. The role of the British Army in Northern Ireland is still described as a peacekeeping one: the cause of the 'troubles' as 'terrorism'. Yet, even in the light of the peace initiatives, many people in Britain and abroad know little about the war that has not been called a war. Why is this so?
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Rudolf Rocker's classic survey of anarcho-syndicalism was written during the Spanish Civil War to explain to the wider reading public the ideology which inspired the social revolution in Spain. It remains unsurpassed as a general introduction to anarchist thought and an authoritative account of the early history of international anarchism by one of the movement's leading figures.
The present edition is unique in giving a complete facsimile reproduction...
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Launching a hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial, editor John Brockman delivers this cutting-edge master class covering everything you need to know about Culture. With original contributions by the world's leading thinkers and scientists, including Jared Diamond, Daniel C. Dennett, Brian Eno, Jaron Lanier, Nicholas Christakis, and others, Culture offers a mind-expanding primer on a fundamental topic. Unparalleled in scope, depth,...
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In the grand tapestry of science and engineering, thereexists a fundamental framework that underpins ourunderstanding of the physical world: classical mechanics.From the graceful orbit of planets to the intricate dynamicsof machinery, classical mechanics provides the bedrockupon which countless innovations and discoveries are built.
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Get the Summary of Kevin D. Mitnick and William L. Simon's The Art of Deception in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Focusing on the human factors involved with information security, Mitnick explains why all the firewalls and encryption protocols in the world will never be enough to stop a savvy grifter intent on rifling a corporate database or an irate employee determined to crash a system....
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Although Charles Darwin's theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most remarkably, The Origin of Species said very little about, of all things, the origins of species. Darwin and his modern successors have shown very convincingly how inherited variations are naturally selected, but they leave unanswered how variant organisms come to be in the first place. In Symbiotic Planet, renowned scientist...
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The tragic story of how ignorance, fear and lack of care led to the disappearance of the famous Tasmanian tiger. This updated edition includes the latest research on whether it could ever be cloned and returned to the wild.
Is it still out there? People claim to keep seeing it still.
Once the world's largest marsupial predator, the Tasmanian tiger roamed the Australian mainland. Then confined to Tasmania for thousands of years, it was deliberately...
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Katy Gardner's account of her fifteen-month stay in the small Bangladeshi village of Talukpur has become a classic study of rural life in South Asia.
Through a series of beautifully crafted narratives, the villagers and their stories are brought vividly to life and the author's role as an outsider sensitively conveyed in her descriptions of the warm friendships she makes.
Above all Songs at the River's Edge is written from a deep respect...
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Can fine art survive in an age of mass media? If so, in what forms and to what purpose? And can radical art still play a critical role in today's divided world?
These are the questions addressed in the Art in the Age of Mass Media, as John Walker examines the fascinating relationship between art and mass media, and the myriad interactions between high and low culture in a postmodern, culturally pluralistic world.
Using a range of historic...
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Millions of people around the world live in countries torn apart by war, where violence and suffering are part of everyday life. Yet in all those countries there are groups of people working for peace in the midst of war, standing up for human rights and decency. What difference can they make? What can be done to support them, and to help dialogue to happen in the midst of hostility and violence?
This book examines these questions, focusing on...
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Change Everything! Marking the debut of a hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial, editor John Brockman delivers a cutting-edge master class covering everything you need to know about The Mind. With original contributions by the world's leading thinkers and scientists, including Steven Pinker, George Lakoff, Philip Zimbardo, V. S. Ramachandran, and others, The Mind offers aconsciousness-expanding primer on a fundamental topic. Unparalleled...
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