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As both individuals and communities, we have a choice. We can struggle through the onslaught of information and play an eternal game of catch-up. Or we can choose to live in the present: favor eye contact over texting; quality over speed; and human quirks over digital perfection. Rushkoff offers hope for anyone seeking to transcend the false now.

As Sid, Kiera, and Marge head home from a relaxing beach vacation, they get caught in the outer bands of a hurricane and are forced to seek shelter in an old motel along the Georgia coast. After a downed tree blocks the only motel exit, they find themselves stuck without power, cell service, or gasoline… but with a dead body.

A perfect weapon. A foolproof plan. And one man standing in the way. There's a new weapon on the world stage. Silent. Invisible. It boils its victims from the inside out and leaves no trace. A perfect assassination tool. A massacre in Pittsburgh was just a demonstration. A proof of concept before the weapon is scaled up. And the rogue faction behind it have far greater ambitions. They don't care if they provoke a war between the United States and China in the process. In fact, that's the point.

When Sam disappeared, I thought the pain would kill me. Now that he's back, I'm thinking I had it wrong. The pain's not gonna kill me. He is.

This story picks up right where State of the Union left off with another wild ride for the First Couple as they navigate work, family, and an all new and extra baffling murder mystery that has Sam pushing the boundaries to get answers before a killer can strike again. Meanwhile, Nick contends with the aftermath of his landmark State of the Union address as a person from his past threatens to undo all the progress he’s made since assuming the presidency.

China isn't aiming for the Moon—it is planning for control of space itself. By 2045, Beijing plans to dominate a $10 trillion Cislunar economy, beam power to Earth from orbit, and mine asteroids worth quintillions. Space Shock presents eighteen realistic "Sputnik moment" scenarios—created by the authors and stress-tested through wargames with senior space, defense, and policy experts—to reveal how America might respond.

Uncovering the details of the experiments leads her to question the validity of that 65 percent statistic and the claims that it revealed something essential about human nature. Fleshed out with dramatic transcripts of the tests themselves, the book puts a human face on the unwitting people who faced the moral test of the shock machine and offers a gripping, unforgettable tale of one man’s ambition and an experiment that defined a generation.

When smart-aleck, down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Anderson Gunn snags his next job, he’s just happy to get the gig. The target he’s chasing may be wanted for murder, but his bills aren’t going to pay themselves. As it turns out, he probably should've been more selective. When he tracks down Cameron Kovak, the wanted man turns out to be no man at all. Gunn finds himself face to face with a tentacled creature out of Ridley Scott’s worst nightmare - a baby Cthulhu, wearing his target's skin like a onesie. And that's just the start of it.

EN SHOCK es un programa de espectáculos, farándula, entretenimiento y tendencias de las redes sociales, conducido por el periodista Jorge Carbajal y Felipe Cruz “El Filip”. Se transmite de lunes a viernes desde febrero de 2017. Ahora, a punto de cumplir 8 años al aire, llegamos a todas las plataformas de podcast con el único objetivo de entretener, divertir e informar a todos nuestros seguidores. #MeQuedéEnShock

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a “dark satire about the inhuman condition” (The Toronto Star) about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make in the face of an uncertain future. In Shock Induction...

Cam is a Marine, not a spy. That’s what he keeps trying to tell Fleet Intelligence. But when he and Vicky signed back up, they agreed to follow orders. And their orders are to keep working for the Corporate Security Force, and find out what the private paramilitary force knows about Zan-Thint's plans to use Predecessor technology against the Commonwealth. Stuck leading a crew of cutthroat mercenaries - who want nothing more than to slaughter the wildcat miners, and take their rhenium ore - Cam and Vicky try to figure out why the Corporate Council is really interested in the mine.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused an awakening that shocked the world—a structural change in how and where people work and live. One thing we now know for certain: Nothing is going back to normal. How organizations adapt to this culture shock will determine whether they thrive or even survive and whether U.S. and global productivity will go up or down.

A sweeping history of the United States' economy and politics, Shock Values reveals how the American state has been shaped by a massive, ever-evolving effort to insulate its economy from the real and perceived dangers of price fluctuations. Carola Binder narrates how the pains of rising and falling prices have brought lasting changes for every generation of Americans. And with each brush with price instability, the United States has been reinvented—not as a more perfect union, but as a reflection of its most recent failures.

Automne 1925. Jeanne Duluc, jeune journaliste socialiste et féministe, s'est fait embaucher au Central Gutenberg afin d'enquêter sur les difficiles conditions de travail des demoiselles du téléphone. C'est alors que l'une d'entre elles, Tatiana, est sauvagement assassinée. Sur son visage défiguré : un masque. Signature qui n'est pas sans rappeler celle du « tueur des Halles », terrorisant les femmes de la capitale depuis plusieurs mois. L'enquête est confiée à Paul Varenne, inspecteur dépendant à la cocaïne et à l'opium à la suite de ses blessures de guerre.

Ciao a tutti! Sono Matilde e benvenuti nel mio podcast! Qui parleremo di fatti scioccanti e storie incredibili che avvengono all'ordine del giorno, ma soprattutto racconterò le vostre storie. Questo podcast sarà un piccolo spazio dove raccontarci e magari strapparci anche qualche sorriso, proprio come una chiacchierata fra amiche. ig: matildeparigi tiktok: matildeparigi

In einer Welt der nahen Zukunft hat der Treibhauseffekt zu einer wirbelnden Troposphäre mit Superstürmen, Überschwemmungen und gnadenloser Hitze geführt. Der Kollaps scheint unaufhaltsam, als ein amerikanischer Milliardär die Mittel für ein bahnbrechendes Projekt bereitstellt, mit dem die globale Erwärmung gestoppt werden soll. Aber wird es funktionieren? Und was wären die Folgen für den Planeten und für die gesamte Menschheit? Ein mitreißender, apokalyptischer Roman, erzählt von einem der visionärsten Autoren unserer Zeit.

Lucy Leighton currently had no clients lined up. What she did have was the knowledge of being well versed in all things trendy—being a freelance wedding and elopement photographer meant that new styles, colors and popular fads were all novelties that were in her wheelhouse. When she is summoned to help aid her sister at San Diego Comic-Con though, Lucy is thrown into a world where the latest fashion tides are replaced with a foreign comicverse. And she’s in way over her head.

After one year of quarantine, the Lower Florida Keys have descended into madness. The last of the local officials cling to power, hoarding supplies and using sheer brutality to force submission. When a second strain of disease burns its way through the enclaves of survivors, the military targets the islands for purge...until a cryptic message from inside the cordon halts the bombing.

In this powerful follow-up to her bestselling memoir In Shock, a doctor asks: What does it truly mean to heal? In the aftermath of her own critical illness, physician and writer Dr. Rana Awdish finds herself oddly estranged her from her own body. Medicine has conditioned her to view sick bodies...

Ramona, a battered wife, plans to kill her husband and make it look like an accident. After his death, while going through his belongings, she finds papers he has written that make no sense. When her mama commits suicide, she finds her mama's diaries. The diaries begin just before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Ramona is amazed at what she learns about her mama, the sheriff, and the whole town of Addison, Georgia, where she lives.