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The Peripheral by William Gibson is a thrilling new novel about two intertwined futures, from the bestselling author of Neuromancer\n\n'Wild, richly satisfying . . . big-screen, popcorn-chewing thrills. What a glorious ride' Guardian\n\nIn the near future in a broken down rural America, Flynne Fisher scrapes a living as a gamer for rich players. One night, working a game set in a futuristic but puzzlingly empty London, she sees a death that's unnervingly vivid. Soon after she gets word that it isn't a game after all - the future she saw is all too real, she's the only witness to a murder and someone from that unreal tomorrow now wants her dead.\n\nThe story of a young woman caught between two worlds, The Peripheral interweaves two futures - pre-apocalypse USA and post-apocalypse London - to tell a story which gets right to heart of the way we live now.\n\n'A tightly plotted, tautly paced novel that unfolds with the dream logic of a fairy tale' The Times Literary Supplement\n\n'Frightening plausible. Not just a unique and brilliantly talented SF novelist but a social and psychological visionary. A wonderful addition to a brilliant oeuvre' The Times\n\n'Superb . . . frantic with imagination' Ned Beauman, Observer\n\n'Fast-moving, accessible, instantly gripping, so laden with cliffhangers you become afraid he'll run out of cliffs' SFX\n\nAccording to the Guardian, in terms of influence Gibson is 'probably the most important novelist of the past two decades'. The Peripheral, which marks a return to the futurism of Neuromancer, will be adored by Gibson readers and will also appeal to fans of Ender's Game, Looper and Source Code.

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Best-known for his seminal sf novel NEUROMANCER, William Gibson is also a master of short fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, BURNING CHROME collects 10 of his best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, co-Cyberpunk and editor of the seminal anthology MIRRORSHADES. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson's characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best. Contains 'Johnny Mnemonic' (filmed starring Keanu Reeves) and title story 'Burning Chrome' - both nominated for the Nebula Award - as well as the Hugo-and-Nebula-nominated stories 'Dogfight' and 'The Winter Market'.

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«Il cielo sopra il porto aveva il colore della televisione, sintonizzata su un canale morto»: con questo memorabile incipit nel 1984 William Gibson ha rivoluzionato la letteratura fantascientifica e non solo, cambiando per sempre il nostro modo di guardare la tecnologia, la realtà esterna e noi stessi. Sotto quel cielo «argenteo e avvelenato» si svolge l'avventura di Case, in un mondo in cui le mafie della finanza e dell'elettronica possono tutto, tra autostrade informatiche e hacker dai poteri neuromantici. Case si è messo contro l'organizzazione sbagliata e per vendetta è stato privato della capacità di connettersi al cyberspazio, isolato nella prigione di carne del suo corpo materiale. Ora qualcuno è disposto a ricostruirgli le sinapsi bruciate, a patto che porti a termine un'ultima missione... Vincitore dei principali riconoscimenti del genere fantascientifico (Hugo, Nebula e Philip Dick Award), e qui presentato nella nuova traduzione di Tommaso Pincio, Neuromante è il libro che ha dato origine all'universo virtuale e narrativo del cyberpunk, conferendogli una dignità letteraria che travalica il genere per assumere la dimensione di un grande classico: una delle più potenti visioni del futuro che la letteratura del Novecento abbia lasciato, in cui la cupa descrizione di scenari tetri e trame esasperate, di una natura devastata e una tecnologia imperante si coniuga con un respiro e uno stile ampi e suggestivi; un romanzo di culto che ha ridefinito l'immaginario dell'era postmoderna.

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Among our most fascinating novelists ... unmissable Daily Telegraph\n\n-------\n\nTHE SECOND NOVEL IN THE BLUE ANT TRILIOGY - READ PATTERN RECOGNITION AND ZERO HISTORY FOR MORE\n\nIn New York, a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysterious old man. Such activities do not go unnoticed, however, in these early days of the War on Terror, and Tito's movements are being tracked. Meanwhile, in LA, journalist Hollis Henry is on the trail of Bobby Chombo, who appears to know too much about military systems for his own good. With Bobby missing and the trail cold, Hollis digs deeper and is drawn into the final moves of a chilling game . . .\n\nA gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer. Part prophesy, part satire, Spook Country skewers the absurdity of modern life with the lightest and most engaging of touches. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks won't be able to put this book down.\n\n-------\n\n'A cool, sophisticated thriller' Financial Times\n\n 'Superb, brilliant. A compulsive and deeply intelligent literary thriller' New Statesman\n\n 'A neat, up-to-the-minute spy thriller' Metro

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The book that defined the cyberpunk movement, inspiring everything from The Matrix to Cyberpunk 2077.\n\nThe sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.\n\nWilliam Gibson revolutionised science fiction in his 1984 debut Neuromancer. The writer who gave us the matrix and coined the term 'cyberspace' produced a first novel that won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards, and lit the fuse on the Cyberpunk movement. \n\nMore than three decades later, Gibson's text is as stylish as ever, his noir narrative still glitters like chrome in the shadows and his depictions of the rise and abuse of corporate power look more prescient every day. Part thriller, part warning, Neuromancer is a timeless classic of modern SF and one of the 20th century's most potent and compelling visions of the future. His later work, The Peripheral, has been adapted into a series by Amazon Prime, starring Chloe Grace Moretz. \n\nReaders are hooked on Neuromancer:\n\n'Wow. This is a wild ride. If you liked Philip K. Dick's writing . . . if you liked Bladerunner, if you liked The Matrix . . . you will love Neuromancer' Goodreads reviewer, \n\n'Like nothing I have read before . . . Gibson's writing is poetry, not jargon . . . [it's] slick and jagged like a serrated knife . . . Yeah I am a big, big fan . . . a unique, important and truly amazing reading experience' Goodreads reviewer, \n\n'Basically a futuristic crime caper. The main character is Case, a burnt-out hacker, a cyberthief . . . Challenging? Yes. But it's electrifying once you get it . . . Neuromancer is in me like a teabag, flavouring my life, and I can't imagine what it would be like if I hadn't pressed on' Goodreads reviewer, \n\n'For me it was a sci fi thriller, two of my favourite genres rolled into one. I was grabbed immediately by the characters of Cole and Molly - especially Molly with her attitude, her mirror eyes and the blades under her fingernails . . . This is a very visual book and it was easy to start choosing who would play the roles in a movie' Goodreads reviewer,

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The last of the Sprawl trilogy: the AIs of Neuromancer have suffered a traumatized, cataclysmic coming to self-awareness and now haunt cyberspace as voodoo powers.\n\n\n Mona’s pimp sells her to a plastic surgeon in New York and she’s turned overnight into someone else. The pimp winds up dead. Mona weeps for him. She’s a sweet, dumb girl… so far.\n\n\n Angie the famous Hollywood stim star has started remembering things. Despite the efforts of studio bosses to keep her in ignorance, Angie will discover who she really is… and why she doesn’t need to jack into the Matrix in order to enter cyberspace.\n\n\n In the depths of the rustbelt, the ring of steel garbage and toxic waste surrounding the Sprawl, Gentry obsessively seeks the darkest secrets of the Matrix. Seeking rapture.\n\n\n When an impossibly tall and powerful skyscraper of data appears suddenly in the landscape of the Matrix, Gentry is ready for it, Angie is part of it, and Mona is set for overdrive. Rapture is on the agenda for all three, but others greedy for money and power will fight them to the death.

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Gibson is having tremendous fun Independent\n\n --------------\n\nTHE THIRD NOVEL IN THE BLUE ANT TRILIOGY - READ PATTERN RECOGNITION AND SPOOK COUNTRY FOR MORE\n\n Hubertus Bigend, the Machiavellian head of global ad-agency Blue Ant, wants to uncover the maker of an obscurely fashionable denim that is taking subculture by storm. Ex-musician Henry Hollis knows nothing about fashion, but Bigend decides she is the woman for the job anyway.\n\n Soon, though, it becomes clear that Bigend's interest in underground labels might have sinister applications. Powerful parties, who'll do anything to get what they want, are showing their hand. And Hollis is about to find herself in the crossfire.\n\nA gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer. Part prophesy, part satire, Zero History skewers the absurdity of modern life with the lightest and most engaging of touches. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks won't be able to put this book down.\n\n --------------\n\n 'An ideas-swarm, coated with a hipster glaze' Herald\n \n 'Gibson's writing is thrillingly tight' New York Times Book Review

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Now available in English for the first time, Ysabel de Andia's double exploration of Christian and Hindu mysticism provides a valuable addition to the field. Composed from lectures given in Benares in 2015 to priests of the Missions Étrangères de Paris, Mystery of God, Mystery of Christ combines the two main research interests that have defined de Andia's career: first, an understanding of Christian mysticism as growing out of the Christian mystery of Christ and the sacrament, and secondly, the relationship between this and Hindu contemplative prayer as articulated by Jules Monchanin.\nBeginning with the Cappadocian fathers, de Andai traces the developing interpretation of Mystery through Christian thinkers from Origen and Gregory of Nyssa to Basil and Dionysios the Areopagite. From here, she begins to dovetail this study with an exploration of Hindu contemplation, relating the Carmelite mystic St John of the Cross to the Advaitist tradition, especially as expounded by Shankara. Throughout, her masterful understanding of both traditions is apparent. For English readers, her insight will provide a fresh perspective on this lively subject area.

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A GRIPPING TECHNO-THRILLER BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEUROMANCER, THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE BRIDGE TRILOGY\n\n'With more insight, wit and sheer style than any of his contemporaries Gibson continues to patrol the nebulous zones that separate science fiction, contemporary thrillers and genuine literature' Independent\n-----\n \n The Bridge, San Francisco, after the quake:\n\n Ex-cop Berry Rydell has been hired by Colin Laney - who is hooked deep into the network of things - to go to San Francisco and act in such a way that he comes to the attention of a certain unspecified individual. This, Laney promises Rydell, could prove life-threatening. And now Rydell's been sent a package. Something that belonged to Laney, something that others with guns, blades and very bad attitudes want. And suddenly Rydell's running, trying get to the old Bridge, the shantytown where a man can get lost, be forgotten and wait for the end of the world - which is the other thing that Laney promised . . .\n \n William Gibson is a prophet and a satirist, a black comedian and an outstanding architect of cool. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks will love this book. This is the third novel in the Bridge trilogy - read Virtual Light and Idoru for more.\n\n -----\n\n 'Scintillating . . . probably the most important novelist of the past two decades' Guardian\n\n 'Writing at flame intensity, Gibson conjures a world that seems just a breath away from the here and now' Salon

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL FROM WILLIAM GIBSON, THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEUROMANCER\n\n-----\n\nSan Francisco, 2017. Clinton's in the White House, Brexit never happened - and Verity Jane's got herself a new job.\n\nThey call Verity 'the app-whisperer,' and she's just been hired to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice...\n\nOnly Eunice has other ideas.\n\nPretty soon, Verity realises that Eunice is smarter than anyone she's ever met. Which is just as well since suddenly some very bad people are after Verity.\n\nMeanwhile, in a post-apocalyptic London a century from now, PR fixer Wilf Netherton is tasked with interfering in the alternative past in which Verity and Eunice exist. It appears something nasty is about to happen there - and fixing it will require not only Eunice's unique human-AI skillset but also a little help from the future.\n\nA future that Verity fears may never be . . .\n\n-----\n\n\n'Dazzling, astoundingly inventive' The Times\n\n'Wild, richly satisfying' Guardian\n\n'Terrific' Spectator\n\n'Rattles along with great pace and suspense' Sunday Times\n\n'One of our greatest science-fiction writers' New York Times\n\n'A sensual, remarkably visual ride' Guardian\n\n'Among our most fascinating novelists' Daily Telegraph

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«Caleidoscopico, sfacciato, decadente... una performance da grande virtuoso» - The Washington Post\r\n2035, o giù di lì. Un mondo popolato da avventurieri e lottatrici, prostitute e mercenari, schiavi della società di massa e delle droghe; soprattutto, un mondo dominato dalla tecnocrazia e dalla corruzione. È l'universo narrativo immaginato da William Gibson nella sua Trilogia dello Sprawl . In questo futuro non così lontano dal nostro presente, gli unici a opporsi allo strapotere delle multinazionali e della Yakuza sono i \"cowboy della tastiera\", anarchici e solitari, geni ribelli dell'informatica che passano la loro esistenza nella realtà virtuale del cyberspazio, intenti a carpire i segreti della matrice.

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The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage's perfection of his Analytical Engine. The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the development of steam-driven cybernetic Engines, is in full and drastic swing. Great Britain, with her calculating-cannons, steam dreadnoughts, machine-guns and information technology, prepares to better the world's lot ...

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Idoru - a gripping techno-thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer\n\n'Fast, witty and cleverly politicized' Guardian\n\nTokyo, post-event:\n\nAfter an attack of scruples, Colin Laney's skipped out on his former employer Slitscan - avoiding the rash of media lawyers sent his way - and taken a job for the outfit managing Japanese rock duo, Lo/Rez. Rez has announced he's going to marry an 'idoru' by the name of Rei Toi - she exists only in virtual reality - and this creates complications that Laney, a net runner, is supposed to sort out. But when Chai, part of Lo/Rez's fan club, turns up unaware that she's carrying illegal nanoware for the Russian Kombinat, Laney's scruples nudge him towards trouble all over again. And this time lawyers'll be the least of his worries . . .\n\nWilliam Gibson is a prophet and a satirist, a black comedian and an outstanding architect of cool. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks will love this book. Idoru is the second novel in the Bridge trilogy - read Virtual Light and All Tomorrow's Parties for more.\n\n\n'Sharp, fast, bright . . . a must' Arena\n\n'A classic technothriller . . . lean, evocative, tense' Wired\n\n'Luxuriate in prose simultaneously as hard and laconic as Elmore Leonard's and as glacially poetic as JG. Ballard's . . . an exhilarating ride' New Statesman\n\nWilliam Gibson's first novel Neuromancer has sold more than six million copies worldwide. In an earlier story he had invented the term 'cyberspace'; a concept he developed in the novel, creating an iconography for the Information Age long before the invention of the Internet. The book won three major literary prizes. He has since written nine further novels including Count Zero; Mona Lisa Overdrive; The Difference Engine; Virtual Light; Idoru; All Tomorrow's Parties; Pattern Recognition; Spook Country and most recently Zero History. He is also the author of Distrust That Particular Flavor, a collection of non-fiction writing.

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William Gibson, debutta nel mondo del fumetto! Lo scrittore di opere cyberpunk e fantascientifiche farà la gioia degli amanti della nona arte e non, con una storia di fantapolitica dalle forti venature distopiche.

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Henry Dorsett Case is a low-level hustler, former hack and 'console cowboy' who crashed and burned. His nerves were damaged and thus cut off from the digital matrix, he slouches through life.\n\nUntil he meets Molly, an augmented 'razorgirl', who offers him a deal on behalf of a shadowy man called Armitage. His nerves repaired and matrix access restored, in exchange for a single job. But it's not so simple - unless he completes the job, sacs of poison will explode inside him and cripple him again. \n\nAnd the job? That might be impossible.\n\nThe first novel to win the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer has become a seminal part of SF history, coining the term 'cyberspace' and lighting a fuse on the Cyberpunk movement. Part thriller, part warning, it is one of the 20th century's most potent visions of the future.\n\n'A ground-breaking success' - Empire\n'Gibson is better than almost anybody at noticing what's genuinely interesting about the world' - Ned Beauman\n'Neuromancer is a book of exquisitely observed detail' - Eileen Gunn\n\n\nWelcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction

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Distrust That Particular Flavor - an acclaimed nonfiction collection by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer\n\n\n\n'The future's already here: it's just not evenly distributed'\n\nWilliam Gibson was writing fiction when he predicted the internet. And as his stories bled into reality so he became one of the first to report on the real-world consequences of cyberspace's growth and development.\n\nNow, with the dust settling on the first internet revolution, comes Gibson's first collection of non-fiction - essays from the technological and cultural frontiers of this new world. \n\nCovering a variety of subjects, they include:\n\n- Metrophagy - the Art and Science of Digesting Great Cities\n- An account of obsession in 'the world's attic' - eBay\n- Reasons why 'The Net is a Waste of Time'\n- Singapore as 'Disneyland with the Death Penalty' \n- A primer on Japan, our default setting for the future \n\nThese and many other pieces, collected for the first time in Distrust that Particular Flavour, are studded with revealing autobiographical fragments and map the development of Gibson's acute perceptions about modern life. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks will love this book.\n\n\n'Gibson is a prophet and a satirist, a black comedian and an astounding architect of cool. He's also responsible for much of the world we live in' Spectator\n\n'Part-detective story, part-cultural snapshot ... all bound by Gibson's pin-sharp prose' Arena

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Hollis Henry è una ex musicista rock, ora giornalista, che sta svolgendo un lavoro di indagine su incarico di una rivista misteriosa chiamata \"Node\". \"Node\" non esiste ancora, il che non sarebbe un problema ma i suoi capi sembrano molto preoccupati di prevenire quella diffusione di voci che di solito le riviste incoraggiano attivamente nel periodo che precede il lancio. Molto molto preoccupati. Tutto questo sarebbe singolare, ed anche un po' sinistro, se solo Hollis si permettesse di pensarci sopra un po', cosa che però non può permettersi di fare. Tito è sui vent'anni. Cubano, parla il russo vive in un deposito a Manhattan e svolge delicati lavori di scambio d'informazioni. Le sue azioni sono guidate da spiriti della Santeria Cubana. Milgrim è un tossico. Un tossico di fascia alta, la sua è una dipendenza da medicinali ansiolitici, ma lui si immagina di non essere in grado di sopravvivere 24 ore se Brown, l'uomo misterioso che lo ha salvato da un pericoloso equivoco col suo spacciatore, dovesse smettere di fornirgli le sue beneamate scatolette magiche. Bobby Chombo è un \"produttore\" e un enigma. Esperto di tecnologie geospaziali, il suo lavoro consiste nel testare e mettere a punto delicati sistemi di navigazione militare. Si rifiuta categoricamente di dormire due volte nello stesso luogo. Non si vede con nessuno. E qualcuno ha detto a Hollis Henry di rintracciarlo.

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The book that defined the cyberpunk movement, inspiring everything from The Matrix to Cyberpunk 2077.\n\nThe sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.\n\nWilliam Gibson revolutionised science fiction in his 1984 debut Neuromancer. The writer who gave us the matrix and coined the term 'cyberspace' produced a first novel that won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards, and lit the fuse on the Cyberpunk movement. \n\nMore than three decades later, Gibson's text is as stylish as ever, his noir narrative still glitters like chrome in the shadows and his depictions of the rise and abuse of corporate power look more prescient every day. Part thriller, part warning, Neuromancer is a timeless classic of modern SF and one of the 20th century's most potent and compelling visions of the future.

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Part-detective story, part-cultural snapshot . . . all bound by Gibsons pin-sharp prose' Arena\n\n--------------\n\nTHE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BLUE ANT TRILIOGY - READ ZERO HISTORY AND SPOOK COUNTRY FOR MORE\n\nCayce Pollard has a new job. She's been offered a special project: track down the makers of an addictive online film that's lighting up the internet. Hunting the source will take her to Tokyo and Moscow and put her in the sights of Japanese hackers and Russian Mafia. She's up against those who want to control the film, to own it - who figure breaking the law is just another business strategy.\n\nThe kind of people who relish turning the hunter into the hunted . . .\n\nA gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer. Part prophesy, part satire, Pattern Recognition skewers the absurdity of modern life with the lightest and most engaging of touches. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks won't be able to put this book down.\n\n--------------\n\n'Fast, witty and cleverly politicized' Guardian\n\n'A big novel, full of bold ideas . . . races along like an expert thriller' GQ\n\n'Dangerously hip. Its dialogue and characterization will amaze you. A wonderfully detailed, reckless journey of espionage and lies' USA Today\n\n'A compelling, humane story with a sympathetic heroine searching for meaning and consolation in a post-everything world' Daily Telegraph\n\n'Electric, profound. Gibson's descriptions of Tokyo, Russia and London are surreally spot-on' Financial Times

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Drama / 7m, 7f / Unit set Immortalized onstage and screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller. The Miracle Worker dramatizes the volatile relationship between the lonely teacher and her charge. Trapped in a secret, silent world, unable to communicate, Helen is violent, spoiled, almost sub-human and treated by her family as such. Only Annie realizes that there is a mind and spirit waiting to be rescued from

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Praise for the author:\n'Gibson's well written and well-documented account of James and the bishops will surely become the new standard authority on these \"implausible revolutionaries\" for many decades.' \nBarbara Brandon Schnorrenberg, Anglican and Episcopal History\n\nIn 1660, England emerged from the devastation of the Civil Wars and restored the king, Charles II, to the throne. Over the next 190 years Britain would establish itself as the leading nation in the world - the centre of a burgeoning empire, at the forefront of the Enlightenment and the driving force behind the Industrial Revolution.\n\nHowever, radical change also brought with it anxiety and violence. America was lost in the War of Independence and calls for revolution at home were never far from the surface of everyday life. \n\nIn this vivid and convincing overview of the era in which Britain transformed the world and was itself remade, leading historian of the period William Gibson also looks at the impact of this revolutionary change on the ordinary citizens of Britain.\n\nThis is the third book in this wonderfully concise four-volume Brief History of Britain which brings together leading historians to tell the story of Britain from the Norman Conquest of 1066 right up to the present day. Combining the latest research with accessible and entertaining story-telling, it is the ideal introduction to British history for students and general readers.

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Fin dall'esordio con Neuromante nel 1986, Gibson non ha mai smesso di raccontarci la guerra non riconosciuta e silenziosamente devastante che hacker e lavoratori della gig economy combattono contro l'algoritmo, contro i gangster e i big data capitalists che manipolano i nostri bisogni, le nostre informazioni personali e i nostri desideri. Gibson non ha mai creduto che la fantascienza predica il futuro: parla solo del presente. Ed è esattamente quello che raccontano queste pagine, dove anche i resti di linee temporali alternative altro non sono che passati abbandonati, mozziconi di futuri che avrebbero potuto essere, versioni del mondo in cui viviamo ora.Verity Jane, una app-whisperer di talento, viene assunta come beta tester per un nuovo prodotto di nome Eunice: un'assistente digitale attivabile per mezzo di occhiali dall'aspetto normalissimo. Eunice, oltre a essere un'intelligenza artificiale incredibilmente umana, ben presto rivela di possedere un volto, un passato frammentario e una conoscenza approfondita delle strategie di combattimento. Quando Verity intuisce che i suoi misteriosi datori di lavoro non sanno ancora quanto sia potente e preziosa Eunice, decide istintivamente che è meglio che non lo vengano mai a sapere. Intanto a Londra, un secolo dopo, in una linea temporale completamente diversa, Wilf Netherton è alle prese con plutocrati e saccheggiatori sopravvissuti a un disastro ecopolitico noto come \"jackpot\". Il suo capo, l'enigmatica Ainsley Lowbeer, è in grado di vedere passati alternativi per provare a indirizzarne le sorti finali, e il suo progetto attuale riguarda Verity e Eunice. Ecco perché Wilf può vedere ciò che a Verity e Eunice è precluso: il jackpot che incombe su di loro e i ruoli che entrambe possono ricoprire per sventarlo. Fin dall'esordio con Neuromante nel 1986, Gibson non ha mai smesso di raccontarci la guerra non riconosciuta e silenziosamente devastante che hacker e lavoratori della gig economy combattono contro l'algoritmo, contro i gangster e i big data capitalists che manipolano i nostri bisogni, le nostre informazioni personali e i nostri desideri. Gibson non ha mai creduto che la fantascienza predica il futuro: parla solo del presente. Ed è esattamente quello che raccontano queste pagine, dove anche i resti di linee temporali alternative altro non sono che passati abbandonati, mozziconi di futuri che avrebbero potuto essere, versioni del mondo in cui viviamo ora. È difficile stabilire se un tentativo così determinato di predire il presente sia un'osservazione o un avvertimento. Probabilmente finisce per essere entrambe le cose.

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Brand: William Gibson
EAN: 9781473217423
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The ghost was her father's parting gift, presented by a black-clad secretary in a departure lounge at Narita..\n\nMona is a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is turned upside down when her pimp sells her to a plastic surgeon in New York and overnight she's turned into someone else.\n\nAngie Mitchell is a famous Hollywood Sense/Net star with a special talent. And despite the efforts of studio bosses to keep her in ignorance, Angie's started remembering things. Soon she'll discover who she really is . . . and why she doesn't need a deck in order to enter cyberspace.\n\nFrom inside the matrix, plots are set in motion and human beings are being played like pieces on a board. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes.\n\nOr so they think . . .

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EAN: 9781473217409
Categoria: Libri e riviste

They set a Slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the colour of his hair.\nWhen the Maas Biolabs and Hosaka zaibatsus fight it out for world domination, computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero are just foot soldiers in the great game: useful but ultimately expendable. \nWhen Turner wakes up in Mexico - in a new body with a beautiful woman beside him - his corporate masters let him recuperate for a while, then reactivate his memory for a mission even more dangerous than the one that nearly killed him: the head designer from Maas Biolabs says he wants to defect to Hosaka, and it's Turner's job to deliver him safely. \n\nCount Zero is a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the designer's defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo gods in the Net and angels in the software, he can only hope that the megacorps and the super-rich have their virtual hands too full to notice the amateur hacker with the black market kit trying desperately to stay alive . . .

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Brand: Chrysostomos Stamoulis
EAN: 9780227178102
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The philosophical and theological study of aesthetics has a long and rich history, stretching back to Plato's identification of ultimate goodness and beauty, together representing the eternal form. Recent trends in aesthetic theory, however, characterised by a focus on the 'beautiful' at the expense of the 'good', have made it an object of suspicion in the Orthodox Church. In its place, Greek theologians have sought to emphasise philokalia as a truer theological discipline.\nSeeking to reverse this trend, Chrysostomos Stamoulis brings into conversation a plethora of voices, from Church fathers to contemporary poets, and from a Marxist political theorist to a literary critic. Out of this dialogue, Stamoulis builds a model for the re-appropriation of Orthodoxy's patristic and Byzantine past that is no longer defined in antithesis to the Western present. The openness he proposes allows us to perceive afresh the world 'shot through with divinity', if only we can lift our gaze to see it. Dismantling the false dichotomy, philokalia or aesthetics, is the first step.

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Brand: Pat Cadigan;william Gibson
EAN: 9781803361130
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The first-draft Alien screenplay by William Gibson, the founder of cyberpunk, turned into a novel by Pat Cadigan, the Hugo Award-Winning \"Queen of Cyberpunk.\"\n\nWinner of the Scribe Award for best adapted novel.\n\nThe Sulaco-on its return journey from LV-426-enters a sector controlled by the \"Union of Progressive Peoples,\" a nation-state engaged in an ongoing cold war and arms race. U.P.P. personnel board the Sulaco and find hypersleep tubes with Ripley, Newt, and an injured Hicks. A Facehugger attacks the lead commando, and the others narrowly escape, taking what remains of Bishop with them.\n\nThe Sulaco continues to Anchorpoint, a space station and military installation the size of a small moon, where it falls under control of the military's Weapons Division. Boarding the Sulaco, a team of Colonial Marines and scientists is assaulted by a pair of Xenomorph drones. In the fight Ripley's cryotube is badly damaged. It's taken aboard Anchorpoint, where Ripley is kept comatose. Newt and an injured Corporal Hicks are awakened, and Newt is sent to Gateway Station on the way to Earth. The U.P.P. sends Bishop to Anchorpoint, where Hicks begins to hear rumors of experimentation-the cloning and genetic modification of Xenomorphs.\n\nThe kind of experimentation that could yield a monstrous hybrid, and perhaps even a Queen.\n\nALIEN 3 TM & (c) Twentieth Century Films. All rights reserved.

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