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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Couriers and Consent is Book 13 in a 13-book series of interconnected short story collections inspired by the discoveries behind the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In the 2020s, medicine moves faster than meaning, and the saga enters an era where truth travels through supply chains, dashboards, and public messaging. It is a decade where the most contested commodity is no longer proof, but permission, and where breakthroughs collide with the human machinery of ambition, fear, and the desperate need to be right on paper. Inside these stories, scientific breakthroughs become operational battlegrounds where knowledge can arrive long after the damage is done. A public health team discovers that the way a virus is classified can hide an outbreak as effectively as ignorance, while in a high-pressure deep-sea habitat, a lethal disagreement arises between human sensation and the data from touch sensors. In a remote mountain village, identity becomes written in fragments as the ethics of ancient DNA research turn consent into a complex negotiation rather than a simple signature. A city-wide failure of a molecular message is blamed on the couriers moving the parcels until the fault is traced back to the design of the message itself, and a startup sells a wellness scan that promises a certainty it cannot honestly deliver. Finally, during a coastal heatwave, a town's fear of contagion leads them to misread a catastrophic collapse of biological tolerance, proving that misclassification is often a choice made under pressure. Woven through this final decade is a recurring cast navigating the ultimate test of their systems and their consciences. There is Nadia Harrington, a clinician-researcher caught between the demand for a calming narrative and the reality of systemic failure; Sasha, whose insistence on nuance and scrutiny makes her a target in an era that demands speed; and Leah, an outreach physician juggling the stigma and data-classification wars of the city. They are joined by Celia, who uncovers the truth of internal restraint, and the investigators who realize that in a world of instant results, the most important evidence is the right to say no. In these noir-tinted historical medical stories, the arrival of the latest frontier reveals that the real challenge is not just what we can prove, but what we have the right to take. As the series concludes, the 2020s show that when medicine moves faster than meaning, the ultimate victory is not the discovery itself, but the integrity of the permission behind it.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Particles and Paradoxes is the tenth volume in a series of thirteen books, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Physics through a collection of original short stories. Between 1990 and 1999, physics proved that the invisible could be held, counted, and calculated. Scientists fired high energy electrons to reveal the discrete, point like constituents inside protons. They designed detectors that expanded the evidence base of high energy interactions, discovered new particles that forced the entire subatomic family structure to adjust, and used laser light to hold atoms still enough to be questioned without the distraction of heat. The Nobel Prize in Physics tracked a decade where chaotic systems found their governing rules and the universe's most elusive signals were finally caught. In this volume, ten prizes become ten works of literary fiction: a courtroom battle over whether a measurement can prove the internal structure of a proton rather than just infer it; a committee rediscovering the physics of phase transitions to regulate smart fabrics; a heist targeting a particle detector blueprint whose gas gain and wire geometry are the only locks; an astronomer decoding a pulsar's timing to reconstruct a binary orbit and test gravitational energy loss; a materials mystery where neutron diffraction reveals the hidden atomic lattice causing a battery to fail; a protagonist finding their own missing energy while building an experiment to detect the elusive neutrino; a future society discovering that superfluid helium three proves the universe keeps secrets behind extreme temperature thresholds; a security analyst recalibrating cold atom sensors that misread social magnetic noise as criminal threats; citizens in a restrictive city forming a collective order where value becomes fractional and emergent; and a legal engineer proving that the unification of two forces is only valid if its outcomes remain finite and testable. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the tenth decade of Nobel physics not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nuclei and Nightfall is the fourth volume in a series of thirteen books, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Physics through a collection of original short stories. Between 1930 and 1939, physics dismantled the illusions of classical certainty. Scientists discovered that light could leave a unique fingerprint on materials, that atoms were governed by the limits of measurement, that unseen neutral particles could unlock the nucleus, and that the sky itself rained down newly confirmed antimatter. The Nobel Prize in Physics tracked a decade where the fundamental building blocks of reality became calculable, even as they defied common sense. In this volume, eight prizes become eight works of literary fiction: a conservator who finds truth in the subtle shift of light across a disputed painting; a student and teacher grappling with a universe built on the grammar of observation; a protagonist who learns to see human relationships not as fixed points but as fluid states of being; a secure facility breached by a neutral projectile that leaves a forensic trace; an investigator using the structure of cosmic noise to catch smugglers under the cover of a storm; estranged siblings who realise the truth of their conflict depends entirely on how they measure it; a researcher discovering that slow, gentle projectiles command more power than violent force; and an inventor navigating the political cost of a machine that manufactures extreme energy on demand. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the fourth decade of Nobel physics not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Evidence and Evasion is Book 11 in a 13-book series of interconnected short story collections inspired by the discoveries behind the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In these ten stories set from 2000 to 2009, science races ahead as institutions learn to hide in plain sight, and knowledge is made, bent, and sometimes rescued. It is a decade where the most dangerous lies are wrapped in good intentions and clean paperwork, and the battle for truth moves into the very mechanisms of memory, sense, and survival. Inside these stories, breakthroughs become pressure points where the truth is as fragile as the records that contain it. A student suspects her memories are being edited by a learning acceleration patch that biases the rules of synaptic change, while a fertility lab's success is questioned when timing, not viability, appears to decide who gets a chance. A reporter dismantles an imaging center's profit-driven pathways, and a detective discovers that a forensic scent map was staged rather than found. From a young doctor proving that ulcers were never a moral failing to a security engineer uncovering how gene silencing can be used as a weapon of sabotage, the stories explore the ethics of a world where data is a currency. A drug program is trapped by a mouse-model confound that nobody wants to admit, an early HIV clinic fights the stigma that demands a scapegoat, and a patents lawyer traces the chain of custody of an 'immortal' cell line to expose a plan to monetize eternity. Woven through the decade is a recurring cast navigating an era where 'proprietary' is often a shield for evasion. There is Sasha Lind, a systems conscience who understands that scientific revolutions are often eaten by contracts; Keira, an investigator who tracks the signals that others ignore; and recurring figures like Nadia Harrington, Miriam, and Peter, who watch as the institutional standards they built are tested by a new generation of high-stakes breakthroughs. Together, they face a world where the real danger is how easily powerful biology can be converted into unaccountable markets. In these noir-tinted historical medical stories, the ability to manipulate the fundamental rules of life creates a world of unprecedented opportunity and risk. The real fight is no longer just discovering the truth, but preventing it from being edited out of the record.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Vaccines and Veracity is Book 2 in a 13-book series of interconnected short story collections inspired by the discoveries behind the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In these stories set from 1910 to 1919, a new kind of power is rising in laboratories, hospitals, clinics, and committee rooms: the power to decide what counts as proof. It is an era where science is accelerating, institutions are hardening, and truth is becoming something people negotiate. A mysterious crate arrives at the Journal of Veracity, where the nucleus becomes something that can be separated and named. A counterfeit refraction scheme turns sight into a con, exposing a traveling fraud through the power of optics. A second dose triggers a lethal reaction as anaphylaxis turns medical hope into a new kind of danger. A vascular repair holds by a single stitch in a high-stakes surgical fight against the clock. A pilot crashes and the findings of vestibular science are quietly classified to protect a convenient story of pilot error. A machinery of reputations, funding, and paperwork works behind the scenes, creating pressure to make uncertainty look like certainty. Woven through the decade is a recurring cast moving through a world of shifting standards. There is editor Dr. Lucien Varga, who learns that publishing is not just reporting, but governance; Maisie Fenn, a quiet clerk building an archive of anomalies that others would rather forget; Dr. Eleanor Harrington, struggling to protect patients while sponsors and secrecy pull at every decision; and Silas Crowe, who realizes that every new safeguard creates a new kind of crime. In these noir-tinted historical medical stories, discovery is only the beginning. The real fight is not only what is true, but who gets to define it, record it, restrict it, or bury it. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Systems and Scrutiny is Book 12 in a 13-book series of interconnected short story collections inspired by the discoveries behind the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The 2010s were marketed as the decade of optimization: smarter cities, smarter health, and smarter bodies. But biology remains indifferent to branding. It is an era where progress is measured against thresholds, feedback loops, and the hidden costs of maintenance, and every new system invites a new form of scrutiny. Inside these stories, scientific insights become levers that can lift or crush depending on who pulls them. A data manager reconstructs a clinic's golden era only to find that long-term accountability is as critical as the initial breakthrough, while a smart city learns that detection is meaning, not just data. A courtroom must decide the ownership of a person's future versions, and a space station mission survives only if its cargo can be delivered to the correct cellular address. From a man's familiar route breaking while his places remain to a clinic standardizing tradition without erasing local knowledge, the decade explores the personal stakes of systemic failure. A 'clean living' craze turns internal recycling into harm, circadian timing becomes a weapon in a sports hearing, and a miracle curve for cancer responders proves too perfect for headlines. Finally, at a high-altitude clinic, a hypoxia adaptation is hijacked as an endurance shortcut, proving that the price of adaptation is never free. Woven through the decade is a recurring cast navigating a world where science is increasingly treated as a product. There is Laleh, a physician striving to protect a medical breakthrough from being turned into a dangerous shortcut; Nadia Harrington, balancing systemic pressures against individual survival; and the investigators and editors like Miriam and Peter who watch as evidence is curated for commercial appeal. Together, they face a world where the greatest peril is the assumption that biology can be optimized without consequence. In these noir-tinted historical medical stories, the arrival of modern optimization creates a world of unprecedented connectivity and risk. The real fight is no longer just discovering the truth, but ensuring it survives the systems designed to sell it.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What if the defining economic ideas of the 1990s were not confined to lecture theatres and policy papers, but became lived dilemmas with consequences you can feel. Signals and Secrets is a collection of ten standalone short stories that transforms Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences winning insights from 1990 to 1999 into tense, contemporary fiction: hidden risk in 'diversified' markets, bargains derailed by enforcement costs, incentives that reshape behaviour, institutions that can be built or captured, strategy under uncertainty, inflation driven by belief, auctions designed to defeat intimidation, protection that fails when it cannot be hedged, well-being that cannot be read from income alone, and a currency peg that collides with capital flows. Each story opens with a brief, plain language paragraph explaining the Nobel recognised idea that powers the plot, making the book accessible to students, teachers, and curious readers alike. These stories are inspired by Nobel recognised research, but they are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Nobel Prize or its institutions. They are an invitation to notice the incentives behind decisions, the frictions inside institutions, and what happens when a neat model meets a messy world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Light and Lattices is the twelfth volume in a series of thirteen short story collections, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry. Between 2010 and 2019, chemistry bypassed traditional physical limits to achieve unprecedented scale, resolution, and control. Scientists broke the diffraction limit of light to track individual molecules inside living cells, modeled complex quantum reactions inside supercomputers, and froze fragile biomolecules to reveal their structures without the need for crystals. They built the first true molecular machines, mapped the intricate cellular receptors that govern human physiology, forced carbon atoms to link with reliable precision, and evolved entirely new enzymes using the accelerated logic of natural selection. They discovered impossible, non-repeating crystal structures and engineered the lithium-ion batteries that untethered humanity from the wall socket. In this twelfth volume, ten prizes become ten works of literary fiction: a fatal refinery accident traced not to a chemical spill, but to a missing palladium-catalysed joining step; an impossible, non-repeating quasicrystal pattern left as a deliberate calling card at a string of crime scenes; a psychiatric drug trial that exploits G-protein-coupled receptor pathways to quietly monitor patients through wearable devices; an insider threat who steals proprietary chemical mechanisms rather than files, using innocent-looking multiscale simulations; a smart medical dressing whose super-resolved fluorescence tracking is repurposed as a surveillance-grade analytics tool; a radiotherapy clinic that manipulates patients' molecular DNA repair schedules to quietly optimise hospital success metrics; an ethical fracture within a startup over a molecular motor whose true danger lies in its directional control protocol; a small lab scooped on a vital cryo-EM structure, exposing the harsh realities of scientific infrastructure and access inequality; a trillion-candidate phage display library where a perfectly evolved binder becomes the perfect targeting agent for a criminal actor; and a rural microgrid secretly stress-cycled to destroy faith in decentralised lithium-ion energy storage. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the 2010s not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Gels and Genomes is the ninth volume in a series of thirteen short story collections, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry. Between 1980 and 1989, chemistry moved beyond observing the natural world and began to consciously re-engineer it. In this decade, scientists learned to deliberately construct and verify the sequence of DNA. They developed theoretical rules to predict reaction pathways before a single chemical was mixed, automated the assembly of complex peptides on solid matrices, and observed the exact dynamics of molecules at the moment of collision. They built synthetic molecules designed to selectively recognize and bind to others, mapped the intricate three-dimensional flow of electrons in photosynthesis, and discovered that RNA was not merely a passive messenger, but an active machine capable of catalysis. The laboratory became a place of profound control, where the building blocks of life and matter could be read, written, and manipulated. In this ninth volume, ten prizes become ten works of literary fiction: a black-market broker exploiting a community lab to assemble custom, off-the-books DNA constructs; a procurement analyst who uses frontier-orbital logic to predict a competitor's market-collapsing catalyst; a public health investigator who uncovers a covered-up viral outbreak frozen in decades-old electron microscopy plates; a high-value courier heist executed by swapping ligands to make a metal catalyst 'inert' during transit; an auditor tracking a thief who harvests valuable peptide fragments from the predictable wash streams of a solid-phase assembly line; a courtroom battle over counterfeit drugs that hinges entirely on solving a crystal's electron density and phase; an industrial accident reconstructed through the ballistic-like matching of reaction product energy distributions; a high-end art thief who uses selective host-guest chemistry to silently extract ions and launder stolen masterpieces; a researcher tracing a massive coral die-off to a pollutant that disrupts the precise electron routing in photosynthetic organisms; and a covert group distributing 'harmless' educational kits that accidentally release complex, ecosystem-altering catalytic RNA. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the 1980s not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fullerenes and Femtoseconds is the tenth volume in a series of thirteen short story collections, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry. Between 1990 and 1999, chemistry mastered the extremes of speed, scale, and complexity. Scientists caught reactions happening in a fraction of a trillionth of a second, discovered an entirely new architecture of carbon, and moved quantum theory into the computer as a 'third laboratory'. They learned to copy and edit DNA at will, tracked the hidden environmental chains destroying the ozone layer, and turned the synthesis of complex molecules from a trial-and-error craft into a rigorous, backward-planning strategy. In this tenth volume, ten prizes become ten works of literary fiction: a forensic chemist who solves a designer-drug case backwards, mapping the retrosynthetic 'disconnection tree' to a single bottleneck reagent; a food-fraud investigator who uses multidimensional NMR to expose counterfeit oils through the subtle dynamic motions of their molecules; a bridge collapse blamed on material defects, until a chemist proves the surrounding micro-environment accelerated corrosion via electron-transfer pathways; a cold-case detective whose newly amplified trace DNA evidence reveals a deliberate, long-game contamination; an industrial accident reconstructed by trapping a fleeting, positively charged carbocation intermediate that management claimed was impossible; a coastal town's sudden UV spike traced to a radical-driven atmospheric chain reaction triggered by a supposedly compliant factory; a journalist tracking a sophisticated counterfeiting ring that relies on the unregulated, cage-like architecture of newly discovered fullerenes; a hospital sabotage campaign executed by subtly interfering with the molecular turbines and pumps that maintain cellular energy; a computational chemist whose low-energy prediction of a catastrophic plant failure is tragically ignored by management; and a reluctant whistleblower who watches a chemical reaction unfold frame-by-frame on a femtosecond timescale, contradicting the community's most celebrated theories. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the 1990s not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Catalysts and Crucibles is the first volume in a series of thirteen books, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry through a collection of original short stories. Between 1901 and 1909, chemistry shifted from an empirical craft into a precise, predictive science. Chemists learned to calculate the exact speed and balance of reactions, isolated hidden inert gases that rewrote the periodic table, and proved that molecules like sugars could be built from scratch rather than merely extracted. They revealed that dissolved salts split into invisible charged ions, isolated elements of extreme reactivity, and proved that the chemistry of life, like fermentation, relied on molecular machinery, not a mysterious 'life force'. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was born at the exact moment the laboratory became a place where nature could not only be explained, but rebuilt. In this opening volume, nine prizes become nine works of literary fiction: a canning entrepreneur whose exploding jars reveal the precise, invisible math of osmotic pressure; an investigator tracking a dangerous counterfeit tonic back to a modular purine toolkit; a poisoning solved by the conductive electrical signature left behind in a teacup; a theatre district plagued by fires caused by suppliers cutting corners with new, invisible noble gases; a textile mill scandal centered on a military dye engineered to degrade over time; an industrial theft where the only stolen property is the thermal recipe of an extreme-temperature electric furnace; a brewer whose ruined shipments prove that yeast extracts, not living cells, do the work of fermentation; a hunt for a stolen radioactive source betrayed by the predictable ticking of its half-life; and, finally, an industrial monopoly built not on a new product, but on the stolen secret of a catalyst's speed. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the first decade of Nobel chemistry not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Vitamins and Vapours is the fourth volume in a series of thirteen books, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry through a collection of original short stories. Between 1930 and 1939, chemistry shifted from extracting nature to replicating its most intimate architectures. Scientists mapped the chemical constitution of blood and leaves, engineered high-pressure industrial environments, and turned the invisible boundary layers of surface chemistry into a measurable science. They discovered heavy hydrogen, proved that humans could synthesize entirely new radioactive elements, mapped molecular structures using dipole moments, and translated the elusive magic of vitamins and hormones into precise, reproducible organic structures. The laboratory became the place where public health, industrial might, and fundamental physics collided. In this fourth volume, nine prizes become nine works of literary fiction: a counterfeit ring selling fake nutritional extracts that is exposed when a regulator looks past colour to strict structural logic; an engineer who discovers that a high-pressure reactor's mysterious failures are actually subtle, weaponized pressure cycles designed to force a corporate buyout; a corrupt city procurement scheme where inequality is engineered into the skipped surface preparation of an anti-corrosion coating; a fatal factory accident falsely blamed on human error, until heavy hydrogen reveals the unforgiving isotope-sensitive kinetics of the plant; a private medical laboratory that secures its monopoly by manipulating delivery schedules so their competitors' artificial isotopes decay before reaching patients; a smuggling operation that separates polar vapours mid-transit using electric fields, undone by a customs chemist who understands dipole-driven behaviour; a scurvy outbreak in a school caused by a supplier who substitutes a biologically weak structural analogue for true vitamin C; an act of economic warfare waged through the deliberate light-exposure and degradation of fragile carotenoids in a food-storage initiative; and, finally, an act of industrial espionage within a fragrance empire where the stolen property is the architectural secret to building large molecular rings. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the 1930s not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light.…