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Cults Utopia 1Q84 An Enterprise Architecture Review
ISBN: 9781460920084 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This literature is NOT real. It is all IMAGINATION. This is an exercise to describe cults' irrational behaviors using enterprise architecture. Cult violence is a form of collective behavior characterized by progressive escalation of conflict, internal radicalization, and the impossibility of escape or retreat from the inevitability of extreme violence (Bromley & Melton 2002, O'Connor 2011.). There have been several attempts modeling cults, sects, but none of them can successfully describe all the gist of the beast in a simplistic manner. Moreover, cults have been evolving quickly, utilizing...
This literature is NOT real. It is all IMAGINATION. This is an exercise to describe cults' irrational behaviors using enterprise architecture. Cult vi...
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Life As It Could Be
ISBN: 9781460991770 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our greatest and proudest creation, the internet, has continued to dazzle us with its breakneck evolution. Reaching ever higher levels of complexity, it has served us well, deeply affecting us and our civilization, but will it continue to do so? Will it ever be conscious? When and how will human technology spin out of control as is expected? These and other questions are pondered by scientists of an obscure institute in Cambridge when they are drawn into a vortex of catastrophic events that converge upon Bruno Haslop, a software tester in a personal crisis.
In their investigation full of... Our greatest and proudest creation, the internet, has continued to dazzle us with its breakneck evolution. Reaching ever higher levels of complexity, ...
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Fatal Exception
ISBN: 9781461067696 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murder. Forget Silicon Valley - the information age was born in the late 1990s in Austin, Texas, ushered in by Elliot Storm, founder and president of Storm Computer Corporation. Phinnaeus Webb just started his job for Storm as a technical support specialist. But soon Phin has more questions than the hapless techno-weenies calling him for help. What is going on in the basement? Why are the hallways patrolled by a robotic spider? Why do Phin's fellow technicians (along with dancers from a local... Murder. Forget Silicon Valley - the information age was born in ... |
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Storm Domestication: A Green Series Book
ISBN: 9781463661861 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fictional work of one person's quest for diminishing the destructive forces of climate by harvesting a part of the power of hurricanes.
A fictional work of one person's quest for diminishing the destructive forces of climate by harvesting a part of the power of hurricanes.
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Hidden Jungle
ISBN: 9781466293656 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The War on Drugs is never-ending. Does the 'establishment' need the War on Drugs? Hidden Jungle is about a lone F.B.I. agent (Jack McKay) that finds himself fighting against legalization of marijuana when a new, very useful, variety is produced.
The War on Drugs is never-ending. Does the 'establishment' need the War on Drugs? Hidden Jungle is about a lone F.B.I. agent (Jack McKay) that finds h...
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First Person: Is it a game or reality?
ISBN: 9781466472204 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A village in the third world gets attacked at night. A student playing computer games gets hired to test a new online first person shooter. The game is clumsy, hard to play, first. It gets better over time, but at the same time a hacker group finds out that a new weapon is being developed: Robots, drones. The group intervenes, first successfully, gets pushed back and finally reveals the reality to the people who think that they "play." First Person is a fast-paced story about what can happen if a game becomes a reality, written by an IT professional and mediocre online gamer. The story is a...
A village in the third world gets attacked at night. A student playing computer games gets hired to test a new online first person shooter. The game i...
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Evoke
ISBN: 9781937674007 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Movies, radio, television and more recently the internet each brought their own revolutions in communication, lifestyles and society. Current scientific research quietly hints at the next wave - the blending of computers with the human mind itself. Forget avatars and 3-D games, we're on the threshold of chips in our brains that will enable us to experience the lives of the rich and famous. It's coming, but are we ready? EVOKE is set in the very near future - where politicians still lust for power, people drive ordinary cars to ordinary work and eat fast-food. What's different is EVOKE - a...
Movies, radio, television and more recently the internet each brought their own revolutions in communication, lifestyles and society. Current scientif...
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The American God: A*NOVEL*Tale
ISBN: 9781470096687 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A great technocrat honored by modern society, blessed by city virgins for bravery, profundity of wit, keen business acumen, adventurousness of spirit, and superiority of mind, yes, honored in all respects by society, which rewards those who look to the future with an eye towards profitable accumulation of capital investments, namely cash. . . . What is nature to him, which he seeks to vanquish anyway, vanquish all with the exception of electric current, that is, vanquish all also with the exception of chemical equations shaped to serve the master, man, Lord of the Universe. There's only envy...
A great technocrat honored by modern society, blessed by city virgins for bravery, profundity of wit, keen business acumen, adventurousness of spirit,...
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Raise the Red Dawn: Raise the Red Dawn
ISBN: 9781451694390 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Destroy the Kentucky
ISBN: 9781451694413 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "More twists and turns and intriguing characters than any three adventure tales...tough to tear your eyes from" (Clive Cussler, New York Times bestselling author of the Dirk Pitt(R) series). SPIES, SOLDIERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS--IN THE HUNT FOR THE KENTUCKY PETER MacKENZIE: In the USS Seawolf he had outdueled the Soviet's best submarine. But a tragic accident wrecked his self-confidence. Now he's back in foreign waters in command of a Soviet submarine--and a top-secret hunt for the stolen US minisub... RAZA: Brought to Moscow for special training, he became a...
"More twists and turns and intriguing characters than any three adventure tales...tough to tear your eyes from" (Clive Cussler, New York Times
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Providence, VA
ISBN: 9780926487635 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Reborn (The Day Eight Series Part 1)
ISBN: 9781475121926 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Present day: Secret technology. Genius millionaires. Hidden chambers. A simulated human. And in the middle of it all: Trevor Leighton. When Trevor Leighton stumbles upon a distress note written by the daughter of multi-millionaire Damon Winters, he attempts to do the right thing: turn it in. But the note isn't what it seems, and it leads Trevor on a dangerous path to uncover the most incredible technology the world has ever known: a super intelligent human being simulating inside a computer program. Not only did Trevor unwittingly have a hand in creating the simulated human, but his new work...
Present day: Secret technology. Genius millionaires. Hidden chambers. A simulated human. And in the middle of it all: Trevor Leighton. When Trevor Lei...
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Of Mice and Hitmen (The Day Eight Series Part 2)
ISBN: 9781475188028 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Present day: Female assassins. Aussie hitmen. A super-intelligent human. The destruction of US government. And in the middle of it all: Trevor Leighton. In Part II, we rejoin Trevor Leighton as he meets Ezra, a super intelligent human being simulating inside a computer program. Ezra's self-improving intellect has paved the way to a wondrous time of incredibly rapid invention known as the "Technological Singularity," and she's effortlessly inventing technology the world has only dreamt of. But everything begins to go horribly wrong. There's an attempt on Trevor's life. Then terrorists...
Present day: Female assassins. Aussie hitmen. A super-intelligent human. The destruction of US government. And in the middle of it all: Trevor Leighto...
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The Spiritual Singularity (The Day Eight Series Part 3)
ISBN: 9781475188073 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Present day: World-changing discoveries. A rip in the universe. A grand realization. Sacrifice. And in the middle of it all: Trevor Leighton. In this culmination of the Day Eight series, Trevor attempts to sever Ezra's mind from President Paxton. But with only eight days left until Ezra achieves a corrupt Intellectual Singularity, and with the US government occupying the world's power grid in a quickly degenerating situation, time is running out. Trevor must find a way to stop it all, and in the process make a sacrifice that will change his life forever. Part III of the Day Eight series...
Present day: World-changing discoveries. A rip in the universe. A grand realization. Sacrifice. And in the middle of it all: Trevor Leighton. In this ...
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Byte
ISBN: 9781439244944 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brooklyn psychiatrist Ajay Rao is frustrated at work and lonely at home, but boredom vanishes when he is hired to psychoanalyze an unusual client: an artificial intelligence. Through an unexpected meeting with a stranger, he discovers his involvement in a deadly plot and is forced to flee. From Montreal to Mexico to Mumbai, aided by a beautiful woman, he must confront the menacing digital intelligence whose logic has twisted into hatred. Byte is a tightly written technothriller. A long-dead sibling is the key to a weapon that threatens the entire Internet, and villains shift alliances in a...
Brooklyn psychiatrist Ajay Rao is frustrated at work and lonely at home, but boredom vanishes when he is hired to psychoanalyze an unusual client: an ...
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Edge of Black
ISBN: 9780778313724 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr. Samantha Owens is starting over: new city, new job, new man, new life. She's trying to put some distance between herself and the devastating loss of her husband and childrenbut old hurts leave scars. Before she's even unpacked her office at Georgetown University's forensic pathology department, she's called to consult on a case that's rocked the capital and the country. An unknown pathogen released into the Washington Metro has caused nationwide panic. Three people diedjust three. A miracle and a puzzle Amid the media frenzy and Homeland Security alarm bells, Sam... Dr. Samantha Owens is starting over: new city, new job, new man, new life. She's trying to put some distance between herself and the devastating l... |
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Prey
ISBN: 9780062227201 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michael Crichton's Prey is a terrifying page-turner that masterfully combines a heart-pounding thriller with cutting-edge technology. Deep in the Nevada desert, the Xymos Corporation has built a state-of-the-art fabrication plant, surrounded by miles and miles of nothing but cactus and coyotes. Eight people are trapped. A self-replicating swarm of predatory molecules is rapidly evolving outside the plant. Massed together, the molecules form an intelligent organism that is anything but benign. More powerful by the hour, it has targeted the eight scientists as prey. They must... Michael Crichton's Prey is a terrifying page-turner that masterfully combines a heart-pounding thriller with cutting-edge technology. <... |
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State of Fear
ISBN: 9780062227218 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers another action-packed techo-thriller in State of Fear. New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers another action-packed techo-thriller in State of Fear. |
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Tornado!: Only One House Will Survive...
ISBN: 9781477601228 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After a horrific tornado destroys a town, one family vows to rebuild far better than before. No more will they gamble with their lives. The house they design and build just may be close to tornado proof, like a FEMA storm shelter. It will be tested to the extreme two years to the day after the tornado that took their old house. A techno-thriller that employs the latest and best materials and systems available now in a house that can actually be built today. Everyone knows there is little or nothing that can be done to resist the awesome power of a tornado. You read it in the paper, see it on...
After a horrific tornado destroys a town, one family vows to rebuild far better than before. No more will they gamble with their lives. The house they...
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Desktop Democracy
ISBN: 9781470133207 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are we governed by an elite group of politicians when technology exists for self-representation? What if members of a community could attend town hall meetings in the comfort of their own living rooms? What if citizens had the ability to submit proposals directly to their community for a vote? Desktop Democracy explores a fictional time in American history when "We the People" replace politicians with self-representation through the use of computers and the Internet. Representative government becomes obsolete and unnecessary...or so it seems. A leader of Internet services, Zinic, Inc.,...
Why are we governed by an elite group of politicians when technology exists for self-representation? What if members of a community could attend town ...
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