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2040: Ruins of ancient civilization uncovered on Mars reveal startling truths about the creation of humankind.

2042: In the gray dust of the Earth's Moon, an extinct enslaving race left behind more answers, more questions...and a grim warning.

2067: As Earth's warring factions clash in space for scraps of alien technology, a strange artifact lies trapped beneath the ice-locked oceans of Europa: a machine that holds the key to the final human destiny.

It is called "The Singer" for the eerie tone it emits.An artificial intelligence built eons ago, it may ultimately solve the mystery of the vanished alien races responsible for the birth and development of humanity. But after decades of war, the hostile nations of Earth care more for power than for knowledge. And now all that stands between the coveted Al and an all-out Chinese assault is a vastly outnumbered contingent of U.S. marines, dug in beneath the baleful red eye of Jupiter. As terrifying events light years distant...<

SUMMARY: >On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonyms with loss of life.Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.<

Fotografie: fotograferen in Diergaarde Blijdorp is een handzaam eBook Dierentuinfotografie, waarin zowel beginners als gevorderden allerlei tips en trucs vinden over hoe en waar men de mooiste foto's kan maken in de dierentuin. In deze gids worden aan de hand van veel voorbeelden uit de praktijk, oplossingen gegeven om van grote, kleine, snelle of juist langzame dieren topfoto's te maken. Gaas, glas, afstand of kunstlichtvormen zijn in principe geen onoverkomelijke hindernissen om aan mooi fotowerk te komen. Laat deze gids een leidraad zijn om in Diergaarde Blijdorp (of andere dierentuinen!) uw hobby op een nog hoger peil te brengen. Ook geschikt voor compactcamera's. Onderwerpen die ook aan bod komen. - Dierentuinfotografie, wat heb je er voor nodig - Automaat of toch op de M? - Scherpstellen tot in de puntjes - Histogram een erg handig hulpmiddel - Vogels in de lucht - Macrofotografie: Hoe dichtbij kun je... - En opeens licht er sneeuw Fotograferen in Diergaarde Blijdorp - Tips en trucs door Rob Doolaard - Rob Doolaard fotograaf Diergaarde Blijdorp

SUMMARY: The Glimmung wants Joe Fernwright. Fernwright is a pot-healer - a repairer of ceramics - in a drably utilitarian future where such skills have little value. The Glimmung is a being that looks something like a gyroscope, something like a teenaged girl, and something like the contents of an ocean. What's more, it may be divine. And, like certain gods of old Earth, it has a bad temper. What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.<

Na het overlijden van haar vader, volgt Manou Altena haar moeder die terugkeert naar haar geboortedorp. Al snel lijkt haar moeder er zich thuis te voelen, maar voor Manou ligt dat anders. Ze maakt kennis met de familie Herwaarden, een naam die op veel bedrijven en winkels prijkt. Onverwachts duikt Fabian op en wordt in korte tijd een gewaardeerde huisgenoot. Maar het contact met Ron Herwaarden familie brengt gebeurtenissen uit het verleden van haar moeder naar boven, met alle gevolgen van dien. Want het verleden blijkt nog levende herinneringen te kennen! De familieromans van Julia Burgers-Drost zijn uit het leven gegrepen. Vlotgeschreven verhalen, personages met prachtige karaktertrekken en hedendaagse situaties. Al vijfentwintig jaar schrijft zij met plezier over allerlei onderwerpen en wordt daardoor door velen gewaardeerd!<

'Brilliant, deeply shocking' - "New York Review of Books". Bucky Wunderlick is a rock and roll star. Dissatisfied with a life that has brought fame and fortune, he suddenly decides he no longer wants to be a commodity. He leaves his band mid-tour and holes up in a dingy, unfurnished apartment in Great Jones Street. Unfortunately, his disappearing act only succeeds in inflaming interest...DeLillo's third novel is more than a musical satire: it probes the rights of the individual, foreshadows the struggle of the artist within a capitalist world and delivers a scathing portrait of our culture's obsession with the lives of the few. 'DeLillo has the force and imagination of Thomas Pynchon or John Barth, with a sense of proportion and style which these would-be giants often lack' - "Irish Times".

SUMMARY: The clone assassin has been played long enough–now it’s more than a game.Bred to kill, Agent 47 is The Agency’s most valuable assassin. So when a competing murder-for-hire organization decides to destroy The Agency, the first person they target for elimination is Agent 47. Tasking someone to off the best hitman in the business is one thing; getting the job done is another. When the attempt falls short, Agent 47 is ordered to track down and kill the culprit who is feeding vital information about The Agency to its enemies.Agent 47 must follow a bloody trail halfway around the world, fight his way through the streets of Fez, Morocco, and battle slavers deep inside Chad. Then he will discover a shattering truth: If he fails at his mission, the price he’ll pay will be far greater than his own life. . . .<