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Detective Elijah Wade is on the trail of a serial killer when the skies above Los Angeles erupt into the most spectacular light show humanity has ever seen. And the most deadly. His daughter is in a hospital bed on the other side of the continent, but where does his duty lie now? To her, to justice, or to his species?

From facial recognition—capable of checking us onto flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform everything from who gets loans to who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain to the development of Google search.

Salander is plotting her revenge – against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release.

Being dragged through a mirror, naked and screaming, onto an extraterrestrial ship was bad. Finding out I had been sold to a huge alien male who looks like the devil was worse. But learning he wanted to trade me to an intergalactic petting zoo was the worst of all! Now I'm whizzing through the galaxy with a robot butler, a trio of nib-nibs (they're like tiny green monkeys), and one huge, muscular, and very grumpy alien.

Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.

In this edition, we hear, translated into modern English, 20-some tales, told in the voices of knight and merchant, wife and miller, squire and nun, and many more. Some are bawdy, some spiritual, some romantic, some mysterious, some chivalrous. Between the stories, the travelers converse, joke, and argue, revealing much about their individual outlooks upon life as well as what life was like in late 14th-century England.

Things are looking up for Liberty Greenwood. She's brokered a deal with the local rival gangster, and it looks like the police have finally stopped investigating her. She even has a plan to steer her family away from their criminal activities. But when a spate of violence on the estates points to a hostile takeover bid from a crew from out of the area, Liberty is forced to take decisive and dangerous action - action which ends up with her doing a stint in prison.

The CISSP certification is the gold standard for security professionals. This exam resource is up to date for the 2015 CISSP Common Body of Knowledge created by ISC2. Simple CISSP has been intentionally kept as brief as possible without the "fluff" many other tomes include. The book is narrated by the author to ensure all information is conveyed by someone who understands the industry. As a result, all acronyms and security terminology is correctly pronounced and described.

Internacional Falls, Minnesota, 4 de julio, una mujer es encontrada inconsciente y cubierta de sangre en el Parque Nacional de Voyaguer. El resto de su familia ha desaparecido y ella no parece recordar nada. El doctor Sullivan, director del centro psiquiátrico de la ciudad, y Sharon Dirckx, ayudante del Sheriff, intentarán que recuerde todo lo sucedido aunque sin saberlo pondrán en juego sus vidas, su idea de la cordura y los llevará hasta dudar de lo que la paciente le está contando.

Dicen que la venganza es un plato que se sirve frío, pero las cosas no siempre salen como esperamos. Kian no contaba con la irresistible personalidad de Amy y la resolución de su corazón. Y debajo de la dureza del carácter de Kian, ella descubre una ternura que la conmueve irremediablemente.

Después de que una tormenta de nieve deja su vuelo en tierra, Lucy hace un último intento desesperado por llegar a casa para Navidad usando una aplicación de viajes compartidos. Ella piensa que hará un viaje por carretera con un desconocido ... pero el chico que aparece es alguien que conoce demasiado bien. Es el ligue que dejó plantado hace unos meses, y ahora estará atrapada en un coche con él en el viaje por carretera más incómodo de su vida.

From 1941 to 1947, the United States planted a liaison mission in the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines. Nicknamed the "Dixie Mission," for its location in "rebel" territory, it was an interagency delegation that included intelligence officers from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Mission to Mao is a social history of the OSS officers in the field that reveals the weakness of United States intelligence diplomacy in the 1940s.

Toda su vida ha intentado superar el tortuoso pasado de su familia: ser la hija de un asesino en serie. Ahora se encuentra preparando su boda, todo ha quedado atrás… aunque parece que no será tan fácil. Un asesino imitador ha surgido 20 años después. ¿todo se repite? Chloe Davis solo tenía doce años cuando se encontraron evidencias que culpaban a su propio padre del asesinato de seis niñas del pueblo. Ya nunca más sería su protector, sino un asesino en serie.

Nahe Familienmitglieder sterben, der Welt geht es auch nicht so gut, das letzte Glas Alkohol wird getrunken und die letzte Zigarette geraucht. Und doch färbt Martin Suter sich noch immer nicht die Haare. Wer auch in schwierigen Situationen und Kippmomenten des Lebens noch lacht, meint es wirklich ernst mit dem Humor.

Als die Brandermittler Klara Larson und Sebastian Vinther zu ihrem jüngsten Tatort kommen, ist bereits klar, dass es sich hier nicht um einen gewöhnlichen Hausbrand handelt. Ein Teenager wurde in einen Schrank gesperrt und kam in den Flammen ums Leben. Von seinem jüngeren Bruder fehlt jede Spur. Je weiter die Ermittlungen voranschreiten, desto mehr Geheimnisse kommen in der kleinen Stadt ans Tageslicht. Doch die Bewohner sind nicht die einzigen, die etwas zu verbergen haben. Während Klara und Sebastian einander näher kommen, drohen die Schatten ihrer Vergangenheit sie langsam einzuholen ...

Eine romantische Spurensuche nach den Geheimnissen des Nil. Inez Olivera wünscht sich nichts mehr, als ihre Eltern auf ihren Abenteuern zu begleiten – bis ...

Suelo comenzar mis conferencias o seminarios sobre superaprendizaje con una pregunta: ¿Qué harías si pudieras utilizar todos tus recursos mentales? La mayoría no responde, ya que no sabe cómo manejar sus herramientas internas para potenciar su cerebro. Esa es la razón por la cual he escrito este libro. A lo largo de estas páginas se despejarán muchas dudas y se proporcionarán numerosos recursos que te facilitarán la posibilidad de aprender mucho más rápido y de manera infinitamente más eficaz.

"Todo parecía ir bien, pero Blanca sabía que nada iba bien en realidad". Una novela generacional, fresca y mordaz. Una mañana de 1993, la vida de Blanca se rompe cuando su padre le anuncia que su madre no regresará. A partir de entonces, Blanca teme que pueda tener un don insólito: la capacidad de obrar milagros, aunque el primero sea provocar la muerte de una niña que se burla de su situación familiar.

"Wenn dort die Hoffnung erblüht, rasseln hier die Ketten der Angst. Wenn dort das blendende Licht lauert, gebietet hier die Dunkelheit. Wenn hier verzehrendes Feuer lodert, klirrt dort eisige Kälte. Wenn hier das Leben endet, beginnt dort ein neues." Freundschaft, die selbst an den dunkelsten Orten gedeiht. Verlorene Liebe, die wiedergefunden werden muss. Schatten, die Könige erzittern lassen. Götter, deren Spiel die Menschheit schon einmal an den Rand des Wahnsinns geführt hat. Menschen, die sich zwischen Tag und Nacht entscheiden müssen. Sklaven, die von ihrem Schicksal fliehen.

Natalie Queiroz was eight months pregnant when she was stabbed by her partner in the most vicious attack imaginable. In the space of nine minutes, and in broad daylight, Natalie was stabbed 24 times with a carving knife. She suffered horrific wounds to her lungs, liver, stomach and uterus, whilst the knife missed her baby by a margin of two millimetres, before the arteries in her wrists were methodically severed by the attacker she finally realised was her partner. After heroic intervention by passers-by and police, the attack was brought to an end, but her ordeal was not over.