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We're Number One!?: America's Uncertain Standing in the World compares the domestic policies of the United States to other countries across a wide variety of social, political, and economic metrics. This book demonstrates conclusively that despite America's wealth, its strong economy, its...

Septiembre de 1954. En un islote llamado Shutter Island, frente a la costa de Boston, se alza un conjunto de edificios de aspecto siniestro: se trata de un hospital psiquiátrico cuyos internos, todos hondamente perturbados y sometidos a una vigilancia estricta, han cometido algún crimen grave. El agente federal Teddy Daniels y su ayudante, Chuck Aule, son enviados allí porque una de las reclusas, Rachel Solando, parece haberse evadido de algún modo incomprensible de una celda cerrada a cal y canto. La única pista es una hoja de papel con una serie de números y letras sin significado aparente.

We’re poised at a stunning point in human history: the advent of generative AI. As writing teachers we are faced with this profound question: Can we evolve alongside this technology, and bring it into our classroom in ways that enhance rather than harm the integrity of our work?

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the most important conservative voices of the last century takes on the dangers of secularism, perhaps the most important issue in our lives. Your beloved dog and a stranger are drowning. Who do you try to save first? Every time famed radio host, New York Times...

No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.” During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Venice was celebrated as a model republic in an age of monarchs. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it became famous for its freewheeling lifestyle characterized by courtesans, casinos, and Carnival.

Murasaki Shikibu, born into the middle ranks of the aristocracy during the Heian period (794-1185 CE), wrote The Tale of Genji, widely considered the world's first novel, during the early years of the 11th century. Expansive, compelling, and sophisticated in its representation of ethical concerns and aesthetic ideals, Murasaki's tale came to occupy a central place in Japan's remarkable history of artistic achievement and is now recognized as a masterpiece of world literature.

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.

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.

Randy Kraft was highly intelligent, politically active, loyal to his friends, committed to his work - and the killer of 67 people - more than any other serial killer known. This book offers a glimpse into the dark mind of a living monster.

In her second year at Blackthorn Academy, Blaire faces challenges not only academically but also in her Korrena bond with Lukas. Though she'd been warned that possessive jealousy was part of Vasirian pair bonding, this insidious green-eyed monster catches Blaire unprepared. Harsh words fly as issues of trust and respect shake the foundation of their fragile newborn partnership. When Blaire withdraws from the academy without a word to anyone, her friends pull together to reunite the two people everyone believes are destined to be together.

Zwei Jahre nach dem mysteriösen Tod ihrer Schwester Julia hört nun auch Helen Stoner die unheimlichen Geräusche und fürchtet ebenfalls um ihr Leben. Sherlock Holmes ermittelt – und wird selbst zur Beute in einem tödlichen Spiel!

Das ehrwürdige Londoner Bankhaus Holder & Stevenson lebt von seinem guten Ruf – und risikoreichen Kreditgeschäften. Als der Mitinhaber Alexander Holder als Sicherheit für einen kurzfristigen Kredit das weltberühmte Beryll-Diadem akzeptiert, kommt es zur Katastrophe.

Bei der Generalprobe des Grand Orchestra Concert zerspringen auf der Bühne gleichzeitig drei große Spiegel – doch wie durch ein Wunder wird niemand verletzt! Während Scotland Yard wenig Interesse an dem Fall zeigt, fürchtet Sherlock Holmes einen weiteren „Anschlag" bei der Premiere in der Royal Albert Hall.

Frühjahr 1881. Wenige Wochen nach der »Studie in Scharlachrot« wird Dr. Phineas Vale, Watsons väterlicher Freund und Mentor, auf Marwood Manor Opfer eines Giftanschlags. Watson bittet Holmes um Hilfe, doch der ermittelt bereits in einem anderen Fall. Watson reist allein – und wird im Porzellanzimmer von Marwood Manor Zeuge eines bizarren Rituals: ein Rätsel, dessen Enthüllung ihn in tödliche Gefahr bringt ...

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.

The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter...

London, 1881. Dr. John H. Watson, frisch aus Afghanistan heimgekehrt, trifft auf den exzentrischen Detektiv Sherlock Holmes. Gemeinsam mieten sie die legendäre Wohnung in der Baker Street 221B, und kurz darauf schlägt das Verbrechen zu: In einem verlassenen Haus wird ein Leichnam aufgefunden, und über ihm, mit Blut an die Wand geschrieben, das Wort RACHE. Scotland Yard steht vor einem Rätsel und bittet Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe.

Das Alraunengeschöpf Hekate hat Dorian Hunter in einen magischen Schlaf versetzt. Zuvor allerdings ist es Coco Zamis gelungen, einen Teil von Dorians Erinnerungen aufzuzeichnen: Wie es scheint, hat Hekate vor fünfhundert Jahren größte Opfer gebracht, um Dorian alias Georg Rudolf Speyer aus den Klauen eines Dämons zu retten. Man munkelte damals, es handele sich um den mächtigen Mephistopheles, dem nicht einmal der Schwarzmagier Dr. Johann Faust zu trotzen wisse.

Das Alraunengeschöpf Hekate hat Cocos und Dorians Sohn Martin entführt und Dorian Hunter in einen magischen Schlaf versetzt. Coco Zamis hat einen Teil von Dorians Erinnerungen aufzeichnen können, aber nichts davon erklärt Hekates Rachsucht und den unerbittlichen Hass, mit dem sie Dorian verfolgt – denn wie es scheint, hat sie Dorian vor fünfhundert Jahren in seinem dritten Leben als Georg Rudolf Speyer noch geliebt.

From Denne Michele Norris and Electric Literature, a vital anthology of essays by trans and gender-nonconforming writers of color, sharing stories of joy, heartbreak, rage, and self-discovery. Featuring seventeen essays by trans people of color—spanning writers, scientists, actors, activists...