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Over the past three decades, population growth and global warming have forged on with a striking semblance to the scenarios laid out by the World3 computer model in the original Limits to Growth. While Meadows, Randers, and Meadows do not make a practice of predicting future environmental degradation, they offer an analysis of present and future trends in resource use, and assess a variety of possible outcomes.

»Wenn du aus London verschwinden willst – spurlos, für immer –, dann klopfe zur Geisterstunde an die rote Tür von Wapping ...« Als der überschuldete Edwin Telford untertaucht, schickt Sherlock Holmes seinen Freund Dr. Watson zu jenem Haus an den Docks, von dem man nur flüsternd spricht. Auf sich allein gestellt, tritt Watson durch die rote Tür ...

Sanford Meisner was one of the best known and beloved teachers of acting in the country. This audiobook follows one of his acting classes for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Written in...

Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking listeners on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories, and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi Tenen provides crucial context for recent developments in AI, which holds important lessons for the future of humans living with smart technology.

Ein geöffnetes Grab in Lamberley, einem kleinen Dorf in Sussex … und eine geistesgestörte Mutter, die ihrem neugeborenen Kind Blut aussaugt! Sherlock Holmes mag nicht an Vampire glauben, aber die grauenerregenden Tatsachen sprechen für sich. Gemeinsam mit John H.

Drs. Dennis and Jen Clark have decades of experience in helping people unearth the root causes of emotional and behavioral issues. They apply psychological knowledge within a biblical framework with powerful results. You can be free from destructive soul ties.

The iconic Sydney to Hobart Race, a 723-mile deepwater challenge - often called the “Everest” of offshore ocean racing - is considered one of the toughest in the world. Unpredictable weather and seas make each race demanding, but in 1998, an unexpected “weather bomb” hit the fleet, creating 80-foot waves and 100-mile-per-hour winds. Many bigger, better-equipped boats tried to maneuver around the storm, but the crew of the AFR Midnight Rambler chose to head directly into its path.

Der Versicherungsgründer und Börsenspekulant Charles Tremaine stürzt vom Balkon seiner Villa in den Tod. Anwohner und Polizei wissen: Es war ein Unfall. Wie unangenehm, dass ein Zeuge allerdings Charles' Sohn Jack auf dem Balkon gesehen haben will. Denn Jack hat ein wasserdichtes Alibi … und das ist nicht die einzige Ungereimtheit, auf die Sherlock Holmes und John H.

Dezember 1881, ein Zug der London, Tilbury & Southend Railway unterwegs nach London. Im Abteil: Sherlock Holmes und Dr. John H. Watson – und mit ihnen Richard Tennant, ein Mann von einnehmender Liebenswürdigkeit, samt seiner auffallend stillen Gattin Cécile.

Venture into the unknown in this collection of mysterious short stories set in the mountains and lakes of the Adirondack Park. From cozy quilt mysteries to vengeful killers, backcountry whodunits, classic crime scenes and paranormal investigations, Adirondack Mysteries has something for everyone...

It's completely understandable if you're in the dark about alchemy. It has been practiced around the world and linked to various religious rites, scientific experiments, and, of course, magic - a series of beliefs and disciplines that defy categorisation and definition. The Complete Idiot's...

Life presents us all with challenges. Most of us at some point will be struck by major traumas such as the sudden death of a loved one, a debilitating disease, or a natural disaster. What differentiates us is how we respond.

Whenever a person engages with music―when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, or a wedding guest gets down on the dance floor—countless neurons are firing. Playing an instrument requires all of the resources of the nervous...

Bei einem Sturm vor der Themsemündung wird der erfahrene Fischer David Pottle vom Meer geholt – so wie eine Generation zuvor sein Vater und vor diesem sein Großvater! Liegt ein Fluch über dem Geschlecht der Pottles? Die Ermittlungen führen Sherlock Holmes auf die abgelegene Insel Foulness Island – wo er alsbald dem Geist von David Pottle begegnet!

A missing killer. A framed detective. A final secret. When a woman is found brutally murdered in her home, the police make a shocking discovery. The victim was strangled with investigator Roland Triel’s tie, and his jacket and ID are left at the scene. But before anyone can demand answers...

A bizarre murder. An elusive psychopath. A deadly quest. A macabre discovery at Copenhagen's new butterfly center hands investigator Roland Triel the most bizarre murder case of his career. The only lead on the unidentified victim is a single, cryptic tattoo. Off the clock, Triel is hunting a...

A serial strangler. A decades-old cold case. A ghost from the past. A killer is stalking the streets of Copenhagen, strangling young women in the dark. Described by terrified witnesses as a towering giant, the murderer leaves investigator Roland Triel racing against the clock. At the same time...

A vigilante killer. A kidnapped daughter. A silent witness. When a tied-up addict is blown to pieces in a Copenhagen apartment, Roland Triel is on the hunt for a ruthless vigilante known only as the Sweeper. The killer's identity is a secret held by only one man—a paralyzed hospital patient...

A brutal murder. An escaped killer. A predator in the shadows. When a teenage girl is found dead in a Copenhagen park, Roland Triel suspects an escaped serial killer. But bizarre wounds and the discovery of a single claw suggest she wasn’t just murdered—she was hunted. Meanwhile, Triel's...

For most of his life, Dennis Cooper believed the person he had loved the most and would always love above all others was George Miles. In his first novel in 10 years, Dennis Cooper writes about George Miles, love, loss, addiction, suicide, and how fiction can capture these things, and how it fails to capture them. Candid and powerful, I Wished is a radical work of shifting forms.