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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kyle Walker doesn't quit. He bends markets, silences boardrooms, and smokes with the defiance of a man who believes the rules apply only to others. For twenty-eight years, cigarettes have been his signature, his weapon, the one territory no one can take from him-not his wife, Annie, whose quiet pleas have worn down to a bare whisper; not his brother, Jason, whose lungs falter a little more with each shared room. Then an old friend reappears with missing fingers and a cryptic warning about a program buried beneath Chicago's municipal buildings-a place called the Laboratory. There, Dr. Benjamin Crow offers a simple framework: addiction is not a disease; it is a violence committed against everyone who shares your air. Crow's contract is thick and unread, but Kyle signs it with contempt, convinced that consent is just a formality. He is wrong. The Laboratory's treatment is absolute. Do not smoke. And when Kyle's rebellious mind merely reaches for a cigarette, the consequences are immediate and surgical-his brother collapses, his wife vanishes, and every cherished bond becomes a precise entry in an escalating ledger of harm. As the system strips him of family, identity, and sanity, Kyle is forced into an impossible role: a compliance officer who must now recruit others into the same machinery that consumed him. The cost of every forbidden desire, he learns, has always been a single, symbolic dollar-a token of acknowledgment he was too proud to pay. But when Kyle discovers that the Laboratory's logic contains a hairline crack, he attempts one final, ambiguous act of payment-a debt settled not for himself, but for the next soul he was meant to consign. What follows is not an escape, but a glitch: a flicker in a screen, a momentary hesitation in the eyes of the unflappable Dr. Crow, and the quiet birth of a question the system cannot process. The Silent Contract is a taut, philosophical thriller that stages addiction as a battle over autonomy, complicity, and the invisible contracts that bind us. In prose as precise and unforgiving as the program it depicts, the novel asks: When every choice carries a price, what does it mean to consent-and who truly holds the pen.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 530 pages. 9.13x6.57x1.11 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Original wrappers in dark green cloth spine. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Arabic 40 p. First and Only Edition in book form of this work on synonyms in the Arabic language, printed for the Arabic universities as an early textbook in Bulaq Printing House. The Bulaq or El-Amiriya Press is the first official and governmental printing press to be established in Egypt, and function according to industrial printing basis, causing not just a qualitative but also a quantitative and knowledgeable leap in science throughout the Arab region. The Bulaq Press was part of Mohamed Aly's inclusive development plans for the modernization of Egypt. The Khedive, first initiated his plans by establishing a strong Egyptian army; one that is capable of strengthening his grip on the country. It thus became essential that this army be provided with the necessary instructive and educational books and material, by which to learn military plans and techniques, as well as the different types of artillery and laws that define a soldier's duties and rights. A pressing need eventually developed for establishing a governmental press; one that should provide such material. By 1815 CE., Mohamed Aly initiated the process of bringing the art of printing to Egypt by sending the first official delegation, headed by Nicole El Masabki, to Milan in Italy, to learn the principles of printing. The same delegation was later able to return and establish the first official press in Egypt. Only three copies located in OCLC: 978241754.…