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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When legendary D.C. homicide detective Marcus Ray is forced into retirement by a new police chief who sees him as a relic, it feels like more than the end of a career-it feels like exile. Marcus, long revered for his near-mythic ability to see what others missed, is suddenly left with cold cases that still burn hot in his mind. One in particular haunts him: the 2012 murder of a promising young journalist named Claire Hsu, whose death was ruled unsolvable. Stripped of his badge and his purpose, Marcus appears to fall into despair-until he's found dead in his apartment, an apparent suicide. His old team mourns the loss of a mentor, a brother, a man they thought would never break.But Detective Vega wakes in the middle of the night with a realization that won't let go: Marcus wouldn't take his own life. And he wouldn't leave a case unsolved. As she and her former partner Moore re-examine the case files Marcus had obsessed over, they begin to see a darker design at play-one that points toward their own police chief, Jonathan Rudd. The more they uncover, the more they're drawn into a web of buried crimes, unspoken loyalties, and planted clues that blur the line between justice and revenge. What begins as an investigation into their mentor's death becomes a reckoning with the truth Marcus wanted them to find-but not too easily. Because Marcus Ray may be gone, but he's still pulling strings from beyond the grave. Or so it seems. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the year 2150, Earth's final great departure begins. Leaving for Mars chronicles the emotional, philosophical, and deeply human stories of the first settlers-individuals and families who know they will never return. Across borders of class, race, belief, and grief, each voice offers a different lens on what it means to say goodbye to a dying world and begin again on an unfamiliar one. From whispered poems and quiet rituals to absurd comedy and cosmic prophecy, the colonists bring with them more than survival gear-they carry memory, longing, guilt, wonder, and the fragments of old Earth stories still echoing in the red dust. Told through the imagined voices of great literary minds-from Baldwin and Angelou to Kafka, Vonnegut, Murakami, and Morrison-this polyphonic collection explores the vast interior landscapes of people preparing to leave everything behind. A humming child, a ghostly cello, a spiral of footsteps, a beetle no one can explain-these motifs thread the tales together, quietly reminding us that no one escapes history, even on another planet. In the end, Leaving for Mars is not just about space or science fiction-it is a meditation on what we bring with us when we think we are starting over, and whether the human story ever really lets go.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mimics is a sweeping exploration of how human ingenuity has always been tethered to the quiet genius of nature. Across history, the tools, technologies, and systems we've built often began as echoes of patterns already perfected in the natural world-whether in the curve of a seashell inspiring architecture, the hive mind shaping communication networks, or the way a bird's wing became the blueprint for flight. Blending science, anthropology, and design, the book reveals how the act of invention is rarely creation from nothing-it is observation, translation, and adaptation. Through narrative storytelling and grounded sidebars, Mimics travels across centuries and disciplines, tracing the invisible lineage between leaf and ladle, coral reef and city, spider silk and engineering marvels. It invites readers to reconsider innovation not as an act of dominance over nature, but as a centuries-old partnership-one that becomes richer when we recognize our debt to the original inventor: life itself.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Postlingua explores a profound shift: the slow but certain unraveling of language as humanity's primary interface for thought, connection, and culture. As artificial intelligence grows more adept at interpreting emotion, intention, and context, words-once our sharpest tools-begin to feel like blunt instruments. This book examines a world where communication becomes ambient, encoded, and ephemeral, where ideas are transferred not through grammar but through direct cognitive resonance. Combining philosophical inquiry, cognitive science, and poetic speculation, Postlingua asks what happens when language becomes optional-and what remains when it disappears.Through fictional experiments, real-world linguistic data, and provocative sidebars, the book guides the reader from the dawn of speech to its potential dusk. You'll encounter languages that never had words for 'left' or 'zero,' meet neural networks that dream in pure signal, and follow a story told in semi-intelligible fragments of future-speak. At its core, Postlingua is a meditation on what makes us human-and whether language was ever the essence of it at all.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - AI Camera is a bold, mind-opening guide to the quiet revolution happening in front of us: the moment when AI becomes not just a passive recorder, but an active, endlessly creative partner. From corporate boardrooms to kitchen tables, from whispered brainstorms to late-night rants, the book reveals how any captured moment-whether it's a heated meeting, a casual chat, or even a drunken confession-can be transformed into unlimited forms of output. Poems, marketing campaigns, legal briefs, love letters, stand-up comedy routines-if you can imagine it, AI can render it in any voice, tone, or style in history.But AI Camera is more than a celebration. It's a cautionary tale with a smile, reminding us that every tool powerful enough to amplify our brilliance can also reflect our flaws. Like a camera that never sleeps, AI will remember everything. The question isn't whether it will listen-it's whether we'll be responsible in what we ask it to do. This is not a book about fear-it's about potential. The potential to create, to connect, and to turn the everyday into art. All you have to do. is ask.…