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Scientist Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident. It''s not a tragedy. It''s an opportunity. Charlie always thought his body could be better. He begins to explore a few ideas. To build parts. Better parts. Prosthetist Lola Shanks loves a good artificial limb. In Charlie, she sees a man on his way to becoming artificial everything. But others see a madman. Or a product. Or a weapon. A story for the age of pervasive technology, Machine Man is a gruesomely funny unraveling of one man''s quest for ultimate self-improvement.

From the ingenious author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon: a brilliant work of science fiction that tells the intimate tale of four people facing their most desperate hour--alone, together, at the edge of the universe. The video changed everything. Before that, we could believe that we were safe. Special. Chosen. We thought the universe was a twinkling ocean of opportunity, waiting to be explored. Afterward, we knew better. Seven years after first contact, Providence Five launches. It is an enormous and deadly warship, built to protect humanity from its greatest ever threat. On board is a crew of just four--tasked with monitoring the ship and reporting the war''s progress to a mesmerized global audience by way of social media. But while pursuing the enemy across space, Gilly, Talia, Anders, and Jackson confront the unthinkable: their communications are cut, their ship decreasingly trustworthy and effective. To survive, they must win a fight that is suddenly and terrifyingly real.

Stephen Jones is a shiny new hire at Zephyr Holdings. From the outside, Zephyr is just another bland corporate monolith, but behind its glass doors business is far from usual: the beautiful receptionist is paid twice as much as anybody else to do nothing, the sales reps use self help books as manuals, no one has seen the CEO, no one knows exactly what they are selling, and missing donuts are the cause of office intrigue. While Jones originally wanted to climb the corporate ladder, he now finds himself descending deeper into the irrational rationality of company policy. What he finds is hilarious, shocking, and utterly telling.

"About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash." —Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King “Best thing I''ve read in a long time . . . a masterpiece.” —Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool Stick and stones break bones. Words kill. They recruited Emily Ruff from the streets. They said it was because she''s good with words. They''ll live to regret it. They said Wil Parke survived something he shouldn''t have. But he doesn''t remember. Now they''re after him and he doesn''t know why. There''s a word, they say. A word that kills. And they want it back . . .

A wickedly satirical and outrageous thriller about globalization and marketing hype, Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever. "Funny and clever.... A kind of ad-world version of Dr. Strangelove.... [Barry] unleashes enough wit and surprise to make his story a total blast." --The New York Times Book Review "Wicked and wonderful.... [It] does just about everything right.... Fast-moving, funny, involving." --The Washington Post Book World Taxation has been abolished, the government has been privatized, and employees take the surname of the company they work for. It''s a brave new corporate world, but you don''t want to be caught without a platinum credit card--as lowly Merchandising Officer Hack Nike is about to find out. Trapped into building street cred for a new line of $2500 sneakers by shooting customers, Hack attracts the barcode-tattooed eye of the legendary Jennifer Government. A stressed-out single mom, corporate watchdog, and government agent who has to rustle up funding before she''s allowed to fight crime, Jennifer Government is holding a closing down sale--and everything must go.

Now a major motion picture starring Amber Heard, Shiloh Fernandez, Kellan Lutz, and Brittany Snow Scat (formerly known as Michael Holloway) is young, underemployed, and trying to make it in Los Angeles. When he comes up with the idea for the hottest new soda ever, he’s sure he’ll become the next overnight sensation, maybe even retire early. But in the treacherous waters of corporate America there are no sure things and Scat finds that he has to fight to save his idea if his yet-to-be-realized career will ever get off the ground. With the help of a scarily gorgeous and brilliant marketing director named 6, he sets out on a mission to grab hold the fame and fortune that, time and again, elude him. This sharp-witted novel is a scathingly funny satire of celebrity, the pop culture machine, and the length to which a guy will go to get ahead—and get a date while doing it.

From the critically acclaimed author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon comes mind-bending speculative psychological suspense about a serial killer pursuing his victim across time and space, and the woman who is determined to stop him, even if it upends her own reality. "I love you. In every world." Young real estate agent Madison May is shocked when a client at an open house says these words to her. The man, a stranger, seems to know far too much about her, and professes his love--shortly before he murders her. Felicity Staples hates reporting on murders. As a journalist for a midsize New York City paper, she knows she must take on the assignment to research Madison May''s shocking murder, but the crime seems random and the suspect is in the wind. That is, until Felicity spots the killer on the subway, right before he vanishes. Soon, Felicity senses her entire universe has shifted. No one remembers Madison May, or Felicity''s encounter with the mysterious man. And her cat is missing. Felicity realizes that in her pursuit of Madison''s killer, she followed him into a different dimension--one where everything about her existence is slightly altered. At first, she is determined to return to the reality she knows, but when Madison May--in this world, a struggling actress--is murdered again, Felicity decides she must find the killer--and learns that she is not the only one hunting him. Traveling through different realities, Felicity uncovers the opportunity--and danger--of living more than one life.

Charles Neumann é engenheiro e trabalha em um sofisticado laboratório de pesquisas. Ele não tem amigos ou qualquer tipo de habilidade social, e ama máquinas e tecnologia. Por isso, quando perde uma das pernas em um acidente de trabalho, Charlie não encara a situação como uma tragédia, e sim como uma oportunidade. Ele sempre achou que o frágil corpo humano poderia ser aperfeiçoado, e então decide colocar em prática algumas ideias. E começa a construir partes. Partes mecânicas. Partes melhores. A especialista em próteses Lola Shanks é apaixonada por membros e órgãos artificiais. Quando conhece Charlie, ela fica fascinada com a possibilidade de ter encontrado um homem capaz de produzir um corpo totalmente mecânico. Mas as outras pessoas acham que ele é um louco. Ou um produto. Ou uma arma. Em uma sátira sobre como a sociedade se tornou tão dependente da tecnologia, Homem-máquina narra a estranha e divertida jornada de um homem em busca do autoaprimoramento.

A los llamados «Poetas» se les enseña a persuadir, a emplear el lenguaje para manipular mentes, a utilizar las palabras como armas... Max Barry nos trae un thriller lleno de suspense y ciencia ficción. En algún lugar a las afueras de Arlington, Virginia, existe una escuela exclusiva a cuyos estudiantes no se les enseña historia, geografía o matemáticas, al menosen el sentido habitual. Se les enseña a persuadir, a emplear el lenguaje para manipular mentes, a utilizar las palabras como armas. A estos estudiantes se los llama «Poetas», y aquel que se gradúe con una mejor puntuación podrá entrar en una organización anónima que actúa con un propósito desconocido. La joven Emily Ruff lleva una vida tranquila en San Francisco cuando de pronto atrae la atención de los reclutadores de la organización. Emily promete y todo apunta a que llegará a convertirse en uno de los talentos más prodigiosos de la organización, hasta el día en que comete un error catastrófico. Mientras, en Australia, en una ciudad tóxica llamada Broken Hill, un hombre llamado Wil Parkeparece ser inmune a las palabras y puede convertirse en la clave heroica de lo que tiene todo el aspecto de ser una guerra secreta# Opiniones: «Lo major que he leído en mucho, mucho tiempo.» HughHowey, autor de Wool «Rabiosamente inteligente, ridículamente divertida e ingeniosa.» Lev Grossman, autor de El bosque mágico

Am grausamen Mord an Madison May scheint auf den ersten Blick nichts Ungewöhnliches: Die Immobilienmaklerin wird offenbar von einem potenziellen Kunden niedergestochen. Der Täter, der sich keine Mühe gegeben hat, seine Identität zu verbergen, scheint einem Kult anzugehören. Als Journalistin Felicity dem Mann zufällig in der U-Bahn begegnet, nimmt sie die Verfolgung auf. Es kommt zum Handgemenge, sie wird aufs Gleis gestoßen, der herannahende Zug kann gerade noch bremsen. Der Verdächtige ist spurlos verschwunden – ebenso wie Felicitys Katze. Ihre Kollegen können sich beim besten Willen nicht mehr an Madison May erinnern, und ihr langjähriger Freund hat plötzlich neue Hobbies, denen er angeblich schon seit Jahren nachgeht. Langsam wird Felicity klar, dass sie nicht mehr im selben New York ist, sondern in einer Parallelwelt – in der die junge Schauspielerin Madison May in tödlicher Gefahr schwebt ...

En la Corporación Zephyr nadie ha visto nunca al Consejero Delegado en persona, aunque está presente a diario en las comunicaciones internas de la empresa. La recepcionista, especialmente guapa, cobra el doble que cualquier otra persona, si bien no parece que tenga ninguna tarea asignada. Los agentes comerciales utilizan libros de autoayuda como manuales de ventas y cualquier empleado de la firma puede montar un pollo sólo porque ha desaparecido el donuts que le correspondía y al que la empresa invita de vez en cuando. ¿Se trata de una empresa normal? En realidad sí, aunque se dedique a algo muy poco habitual y que el lector sólo descubrirá muy al final de la novela.“Divertidísima... Barry pone de manifiesto sus credenciales como escritor satírico y saboteador... La Corporación es el mejor libro de Barry”. The New York Times“Barry realizó una hazaña imposible, escribir tres libros sin sucumbir a una depresión. Perspicaz y diabólica... Si usted ahora está leyendo un libro de gestión, cualquier libro de gestión, déjelo y coja éste en su lugar”. Forbes

Uma organização treina jovens talentosos para controlar a mente e o comportamento das pessoas usando combinações específicas de palavras. Os iniciados deixam suas verdadeiras identidades para trás e passam a usar nomes de poetas. Identificada como um prodígio na arte da persuasão, Emily Ruff, que ganha a vida com truques de cartas nas ruas de São Francisco, é enviada para o treinamento em uma escola da organização e começa a aprender a técnica letal. Quando os líderes da instituição descobrem que ela está se envolvendo com outro aluno, Emily recebe uma missão aterrorizante. Wil Parke, carpinteiro, sofre de amnésia. Um dia ele já soube o significado da palavrárida, um artefato com o poder de colocar o planeta em risco. No entanto, não lembra mais. Wil é sequestrado por dois agentes brutais, que acabaram de matar sua namorada, desesperados para impedir que um membro da organização, de codinome Virginia Woolf, cause uma grande destruição. Em seu novo livro, Max Barry constrói uma trama sombria na qual as palavras são como armas e os tipos mais vis usam como pseudônimos grandes nomes da literatura. “Um dos melhores livros que li em muitos anos. Obra-prima.” Hugh Howey, autor da trilogia Silo “Uma combinação de excelentes personagens, trama criativa usando aspectos linguísticos e uma história aterrorizante.” The Guardian

Ο Τσαρλς Νιούμαν, επιστήμονας και ερευνητής, χάνει το πόδι του σε εργαστηριακό ατύχημα. Δεν το βλέπει όμως ως τραγωδία. Το βλέπει ως ευκαιρία. Ο Τσάρλι ανέκαθεν πίστευε ότι το σώμα του μπορούσε να γίνει καλύτερο. Αρχίζει λοιπόν να εξερευνά μερικές ιδέες. Να κατασκευάζει μέλη. Καλύτερα απ’ τα αληθινά. Η ειδική προσθετικός Λόλα Σανκς λατρεύει τα άρτια τεχνητά μέλη. Στο πρόσωπο του Τσάρλι, βλέπει έναν άνθρωπο έτοιμο να αποκτήσει ένα πλήρες τεχνητό σώμα. Οι άλλοι, παρ'' όλα αυτά, βλέπουν έναν τρελό. Ή ένα προϊόν. Ή ένα όπλο. για την εποχή της διεισδυτικής τεχνολογίας, Ο άνθρωπος-μηχανή είναι η φρικιαστικά κωμική κατάδυση ενός ανθρώπου που αναζητά την απόλυτη αυτοβελτίωση.

Válka s mloky v éře vesmírných lodí Lidstvo bojuje s nebezpečnými vesmírnými vetřelci – mloky. Na jejich území vyšle nejmodernější lodě třídy Providence, které mají jejich civilizaci zcela vyhladit. Úkol čtyřčlenné posádky na jedné z nich je ale překvapivě snadný: udržovat prostřednictvím videí na sociálních sítích zdání, že mají misi pod kontrolou. Soběstačná loď totiž lidskou přítomnost nepotřebuje. Ale i umělá inteligence může selhat a vystavit svou posádku smrtelnému nebezpečí...

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Num futuro não muito distante, o governo norte-americano foi privatizado e suas corporações ditam as regras para o mundo. As empresas patrocinam absolutamente tudo, de escolas a guerras, juros são ilegais e todos devem assumir o nome de seu empregador como seu próprio sobrenome. É dentro deste novo mundo capitalista que o leitor encontrará Hack Nike. Um vendedor da Nike que almeja crescer na empresa e acaba assinando um contrato sem ler. Quando lê a proposta, descobre que terá que assassinar jovens para promover a imagem de um novo - e caríssimo - tênis da empresa. Uma agente durona, Jennifer Governo, é encarregada para o caso, e Hack Nike e seus chefes, John Nike e John Nike, se vêem envolvidos não apenas numa campanha de marketing, mas numa trama de vida ou morte. Em ''Eu S/A'', o australiano Max Barry cria um (não tão admirável) mundo novo, no qual o marketing de guerrilha, ou melhor, marketing de guerra, é natural. Um mundo onde todos - com exceção dos lunáticos franceses - são controlados e vigiados e no qual o governo cobra para investigar crimes. E é aí que Jennifer Governo entra na história.

Der neue Roman vom Autor des Kultbestsellers "Logoland"! Es beginnt mit einem Arbeitsunfall. Wissenschaftler Charlie Neumann verliert ein Bein. Eigentlich eine Tragödie, doch Neumann sieht darin eher eine Chance. Er erkennt, dass sein Körper verbesserungsfähig ist - durch eine hochkomplexe Prothese. Aber dabei bleibt es nicht. Bald ist das zweite Bein fällig. Dann eine Hand. Charlie ist auf dem besten Weg, sich in eine Maschine zu verwandeln. Doch wo liegt die Grenze? Ein hochaktueller Roman über das wahnhafte Streben nach körperlicher Perfektion. Max Barry wurde am 18.März 1973 geboren und lebt mit seiner Frau und zwei Töchtern in Melbourne Australien. Seine besten Jahre verbrachte er bei Hewlett-Packard, bevor er seine Festanstellung gegen die Produktion von Romanen eintauschte. Zusätzlich zu seinen ersten drei Romanen entwickelte er das Online-Spiel NationStates und arbeitete an allerhand Software-Projekten mit. Bei allen seinen Romanen wurden die Filmrechte verkauft.

Bienvenue au paradis ! Un monde dominé par les world companies américaines, un monde où le libéralisme règne en maître : plus d''impôts, plus de barrières douanières, plus de services publics gratuits, plus de délits d''initié mais des " transactions pointues ". Un monde où votre nom de famille est celui de l''entreprise qui vous emploie. En bref, un monde parfait. Hack Nike, chargé de distribuer les baskets ornées de la célèbre virgule, est flatté quand il est repéré par les kings du marketing, John et John Nike, qui viennent d''inventer une technique de promotion révolutionnaire : tuer une dizaine d''adolescents pour créer l''événement autour du dernier modèle. C''est stipulé dans le contrat de travail que s''est empressé de signer Hack... sans l''avoir lu. Paniqué, ce dernier court voir la Police, qui accepte de se charger du boulot au tarif habituel. Mais l''affaire se complique quand la Police a l''idée de sous-traiter l''affaire à la NRA, le très conservateur lobby des armes à feu, qui arrondit ses fins de mois en mettant à la disposition du plus offrant son service " action ". Jennifer Gouvernement, agent très spécial dont le visage est tatoué d''un code-barres, est le chien de garde du consommateur. Réussira-t-elle à stopper l''irrésistible ascension de John Nike dans sa quête du pouvoir absolu ? Avec ce roman d''anticipation sociale décoiffant, Max Barry s''inscrit dans la lignée d''Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Bret Easton Ellis et Douglas Coupland.

This study analyzes hand imagery in Emily Dickinson''s poetic oeuvre. It examines a series of poems where the word "hand" appears, and offers extensive interpretations of the figurative value of the symbol. It questions whether this figurative value informs the critical discussion of authorship that uses the hand as a symbol of authorial subjectivity. The argument is organized around the thematic categories of the hands'' function. It begins with an analysis of the hand as it relates to Dickinson''s particular brand of Calvinist theology. It then discusses the hand as a symbol of connection between the poems'' speakers and figures opposite them in various textual correspondences. It concludes by offering that the image of the hand reflects the method of interpretation currently in vogue among Dickinson scholars foregrounding the importance of the original material state of the text.

Uma incrível sátira sobre a vida corporativa. O romance que responde às grandes perguntas de sua empresa. Quais são os méritos de se dormir com o chefe? Os degraus até o topo da empresa são menores ou iguais aos daquele colega que não conhece o caminho da cama do superior? Diante de uma nova reestruturação, quem será convidado a “passar no RH”? Agressão física é uma resposta adequada às normas de gestão? “Nossa missão é...”: devemos levar isso a sério? Por que aquela vaga reservada no estacionamento está sempre vazia? Pegar mais um pãozinho no lancha da manhã: pecado da gula ou crime inafiançável? Se a empresa está passando por uma reengenharia, isso não é sinal de que a última foi desperdício de tempo e dinheiro? O que a diretoria fica fazendo o dia inteiro mesmo? Bem-vindo à Zephyr Holdings, empresa em que os funcionários nunca viram o CEO, a recepcionista de atributos físicos invejáveis ganha o dobro dos outros funcionários e um dos vendedores está criando o maior caso porque alguém roubou sua rosquinha na hora do lanche. Em outras palavras, uma empresa grande como outra qualquer. Ou, pelo menos, é o que todos pensam. Até que o recém-contratado Stephen Jones – novo demais para entender que algumas perguntas nunca devem ser feitas – começa a investigar os mistérios corporativos da Zephyr. O novo funcionário logo descobre o segredo da empresa, a resposta para tudo: o que a Zephyr Holdings faz de verdade e o motivo por que todo gerente tem um exemplar do Sistema ômega de gestão. Nesta obra provocante, Max Barry, autor do elogiadíssimo Eu S/A, coloca em xeque a cultura das grandes corporações. “Fãs de Dilbert e de The Office – e qualquer um que considere a vida corporativa