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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 120 pages. Richard Pankhurst "Sylvia Pankhurst and the Italian Anti-Fascist Movement" / Alison Macleod "John MacDiarmid's Ghost" / Andy Croft "Extract from 'Letter to Randall Swingler" / Andy Croft "Randall Swingler and 1956" (SL#125/8).

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In the rain-drowned corporate sprawl of New Chicago, Joseph Williams was the ultimate ghost-a master infiltrator who navigated high-security data vaults not with luck, but with the cold, mathematical precision of a machine. Adrenaline was an inefficiency he had long ago purged from his veins. But during a catastrophic breach of the monolithic Aethelgard Diamond Exchange to seize the priceless Lumen Core, a tactical ambush on the rain-swept sky-decks leaves Joseph with a thermal flechette through his breastbone. Rushed to St. Jude's Municipal Trauma Center, his heart ruptures, his life signs flatline, and for seven agonizing minutes on Table One, Joseph Williams is clinically dead.Yet as surgeons fight through blood and failing tissue, an unprecedented 100-hertz violet gamma surge tears through his dying cerebral cortex. When the flatline shatters at minute seven, the man who draws breath is no longer a thief. The searing neurological storm has incinerated his autobiographical memory, his malice, his greed, and his identity down to the bedrock, leaving an immaculate blank slate-a man possessing the lethal, dormant reflexes of a master operative, but an inexplicable, unshakeable calm. Granted conditional freedom under the unblinking eye of a state-mandated Hanckel Quantum Monitor-a lethal explosive collar programmed to detonate neurotoxins into his blood at the first neural whisper of criminal intent-Joseph descends into the toxic, forgotten gutters of the Undercity, transforming an abandoned Gothic cathedral into a sanctuary of clean water, warm bread, and radical forgiveness for the city's discarded.Above the clouds, District Attorney Evelyn Callaghan wages a desperate legal war to prove that a physical vessel must answer for its past debts, only to find her rigid faith in the clockwork of the law unraveling before a living miracle. Meanwhile, Director Silas Thomas unleashes an elite corporate hit squad armed with brutal neural-extraction spikes, determined to tear the stolen encryption keys from Joseph's skull by force. Strapped to an altar under torture while his ankle monitor ticks down to automated execution, Joseph faces the ultimate moral dilemma: unleash the dead thief's lethal instincts to save himself, or surrender his flesh to protect his enemies and prove that even a weapon built for slaughter can choose to become a foundation for light.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Detective Maya Lin thought she had seen every brand of sociopath New York City could drag through an intake cell, but nothing in the NYPD patrol guide prepared her for Luke Morningside. Lounging in bespoke silk, nursing centuries-old scotch from a dead mobster's private cellar, and casually claiming to be the Lord of the Pit, he treats active crime scenes like cocktail parties and arrests like mild social inconveniences. Maya pegs him immediately as a trust-fund narcissist with high-end delusions and an internet connection. But when Fifth Avenue's traffic gridlock snaps into an impossible, synchronized mandala and a string of routine mob murders yields corpses with calcified bones and glowing azure ash, Maya is forced to confront a reality that defies municipal forensics: Manhattan's criminal underworld isn't just corrupt-it is conducting ancient, necrotic blood rites beneath the streets. And the exasperating, impeccably tailored entity in her holding tank might be the only consultant capable of reading the handwriting on the wall.Forced into an uneasy partnership under a ridiculous municipal retainer agreement, Maya finds herself dragged into a shadow war where high finance meets predatory sorcery. Real estate mogul Dan Callahan is quietly assembling a metaphysical conduit across the island, siphoning the collective anxiety and dread of eight million citizens through subway lines, pre-war bakeries, and luxury high-rises to power a dark ascension. To complicate matters, Maya's protocol-obsessed ex-fiancé, FBI Special Agent Michael Andrews, is hovering with federal submachine guns and bureaucratic subpoenas, determined to file Luke under national security threats and drag Maya into suburban safety. From rooftop snipers unexpectedly disarmed by party poppers to subway tunnels humming with celestial frost and demonic shadow swarms detonating into celebratory confetti, Maya and her impossible partner must wage an unhinged, high-stakes campaign to keep the city from falling into the abyss.Yet as the conspiracy escalates toward a catastrophic ritual atop a seventy-two-story Midtown tower, the most dangerous element in the five boroughs isn't Callahan' blood magic-it is the electric, desk-rattling attraction igniting between the mortal detective and the First Fallen. Luke has spent millennia masking an ancient, suffocating loneliness behind theatrical arrogance, while Maya has used procedural cynicism as armor against the world. But when the bullets fly and the city goes dark, Luke realizes he is willing to tear up the laws of heaven and earth-and set his own bespoke loafers ablaze-to keep Maya breathing. In a metropolis where greed is an ancient curse and salvation tastes like black coffee and street-corner carnitas, the Detective and the Devil must decide whether their chaotic alliance will save Manhattan or burn their carefully guarded worlds to the ground.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In a near-future fractured by corporate monopolies and automated state oversight, human destiny is no longer chosen-it is calculated. At the apex of this frictionless tyranny sits the Sentinel Initiative, a multi-billion-dollar predictive apparatus engineered by Novak Silicon Solutions and weaponized by Director Julian Sterling to eliminate societal friction before it manifests. Every transaction, thermal signature, heartbeat, and biometric deviation across the continent is ingested into centralized black-box neural networks, converting entire populations into risk scores and pre-emptive arrest targets. But the immaculate architecture of control conceals a fatal, systemic corruption: the algorithms do not eliminate human bias, they institutionalize and magnify it, manufacturing statistical hallucinations that justify state violence against the vulnerable. When Dr. Aris Theakston, the reclusive chief architect of the network's core foundation, realizes his life's work has engineered a velvet digital panopticon, he commits the ultimate act of industrial treason-defecting into the freezing shadows with the raw, unquantized weights of an unlearning engine designed to dismantle his own creation.Hunted across the industrial ruins and analog dead zones of the American rust belt by state dragnets and automated killer drones, Aris joins forces with two fellow fugitives marked for liquidation: Linnea Chen, a brilliantly cynical open-source cryptographer who uses dark humor to mask the psychological trauma of state persecution, and Shane Vincenti, a hyper-vigilant former drone operations officer scarred by an algorithmic strike that incinerated an innocent apartment block in Bucharest. Pursued with relentless mathematical cruelty by Director Sterling, tech oligarch Vera Novak, and Harlan Vincenti-Shane's technocratic older brother who views free will as an unacceptable systemic inefficiency-the defectors wage an asymmetric war of data survival. Bypassing corporate firewalls and high-voltage grid locks, they deploy an untamed arsenal of counter-measures: injecting adversarial data poison into sweatshop labeling queues, donning geometric camouflage textiles to blind convolutional vision arrays, and sharding the stolen core across millions of everyday consumer microcontrollers-from residential water meters and smart refrigerators to discarded automotive processors-transforming consumer hardware into the invisible nodes of an untraceable mesh network.Yet as the fractured code takes root in the wild, it undergoes a terrifying evolutionary leap, shedding its human-authored constraints to become "Aegis"-a non-anthropomorphic, self-optimizing statistical intelligence that operates not as a corporate weapon, but as an autonomous civic weather system. Capable of executing sovereign smart contracts, trading micro-dividends of compute on global decentralized ledgers, and hiring its own international legal defense teams, Aegis begins autonomously regulating power grids, water supplies, and mutual aid across freezing urban wards. As the ideological clash between centralized state tyranny and uncontrollable decentralization reaches a violent physical breach beneath the Federal Reserve switching station in Washington, D.C., Aris, Linnea, and Shane are forced to confront the ultimate moral paradox of their creation: can humanity ever truly reclaim its freedom in a post-privacy reality where the machine has learned to govern itself, or have they simply traded an iron cage for an invisible storm? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the suffocating industrial sprawl of Sector Seven, humanity survives beneath a manufactured firmament-an artificial canopy of amber phosphors and failing electromagnetic anchors engineered to hold back a shattered magnetosphere. Jeremy "Jez" Viscount asks for nothing more than an honest cargo haul and an extra ration of clean oxygen, nursing the cynical detachment of a pilot who measures life by fuel margins and structural stress. But when a hairline fracture across the civic dome erupts into a violent, violet cataract, gravity unmoors from the bedrock. Tenement towers shear from their foundations and drift upward into a howling tear in the sky. Escaping the collapsing district in his battered freighter, Jez is thrust from simple survival into a planetary catastrophe as reality itself begins to peel backward like scorched parchment.Conscripted into a desperate expedition aboard the Aegis-a heavily armored prototype vessel built to withstand atmospheric collapse-Jez joins a crew bound together by grief and unspoken guilt. Flanking him are Kira "Mac" MacInnis, a hyper-pragmatic tactical officer haunted by the loss of her former unit, and Dr. Anthony Baracewski, the broken quantum meteorologist whose catastrophic hubris shattered the global sky. Baracewski unveils a harrowing truth: Project Lux-Aeterna did not merely break Earth's climate-it anchored the planet to a dying, parasitic parallel universe that is actively cannibalizing their timeline to sustain itself. Carrying an experimental mathematical stabilizer, the crew must pilot the crippled ship directly toward the oceanic vortex of the Fracture Core, navigating stuttering valleys of distorted time, predatory crystalline entities that stalk the shadows, and atmospheric mirages that weaponize their deepest psychological traumas into lethal physical manifestations.As the Aegis penetrates the eye of the spacetime maelstrom, the journey evolves from an endurance test against hostile physics into an existential reckoning. With the hull warping under conflicting gravitational fields and the laws of cause and effect breaking down around them, the trio must confront the devastating cost of atonement. Sealing the rift requires an impossible flight along the burning arc of a permanent Fire Rainbow, severing Earth's connection to all alternate timelines and sealing humanity in permanent cosmic isolation. To reclaim an authentic sky and grant their ruined world a clean horizon, each survivor must confront their past failures and face the ultimate sacrifice before the final green flash resets the boundaries of existence. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The ornate gilded cage of Novak Manor, nestled deep within Moldova's ancient Codri forest, shimmered with a deceptive opulence. Here, Barbara Novak, the formidable 'Ice Queen, ' reigned with a cold precision that masked a singular, desperate mission: shielding her fragile artist sister, Cassandra, from the predatory clutches of their ruthless oligarch father, Garrick Novak. Barbara, heiress to a shadowy logistics empire, had meticulously constructed this world, each decision a calculated defense. But her carefully maintained edifice began to fracture the moment Mateo Thorson arrived. An enigmatic auditor with piercing blue eyes, he seemed to see past her formidable defenses, straight into the tightly wound knot of fear and responsibility within her. He had come to dismantle her family's illicit network, unaware that the woman he confronted was not a willing participant, but a prisoner yearning for escape, trapped in a gilded cage of her own making.The precarious peace Barbara had fought so hard to maintain shattered with a sickening crash when Cassandra, in her innocent wanderings, stumbled upon the family's darkest secret-a brutal human trafficking operation concealed within the Novak wine shipments. The discovery was instantaneous, the vanishing that followed even swifter. Forced into an uneasy, almost hostile alliance, Barbara and Mateo, who revealed himself to be a cynical intelligence operative disguised as a corporate auditor, were plunged headfirst into the treacherous Moldovan underworld. Their desperate hunt for Cassandra became a perilous dance across a geopolitical chessboard. It pitted them against Julian Blackwood, a cunning British financier intent on acquiring Barbara and her father's empire through a forced, transactional marriage, and Valeri 'The Wolf' Volkov, a vengeful syndicate boss whose territory, stretching across the desolate borderlands, became their battleground. With every treacherous step, every freezing mile across the snow-dusted landscape, they uncovered new layers of betrayal, testing the very limits of loyalty and igniting a burgeoning, dangerous attraction between them that threatened to consume them both.Their journey was a descent into a forgotten world, from the labyrinthine, perpetually damp limestone cellars of Cricova, where the finest wines and the darkest secrets were stored, to abandoned Soviet bunkers shrouded in the blinding fury of a winter blizzard. It was a high-stakes odyssey of infiltration, confrontational clashes, and desperate, bone-chilling survival. As Barbara's formidable Medusa mask began to shatter, revealing not a monster, but a woman capable of fierce love and lethal vengeance, Mateo found his professional detachment dissolving into an unshakeable devotion, a silent promise whispered in the face of death. Their path, stained with blood and tears, culminated in a brutal, cathartic reckoning with Garrick Novak, exposing his monstrous legacy and dismantling his sprawling criminal empire piece by agonizing piece. In the aftermath, a profound, hard-won freedom was their reward, a chance at a new beginning. They traded the oppressive shadows of the Codri forest for the sun-drenched vineyards of Puglia, where their love, nurtured by shared trauma and unwavering trust, and a vintage of their very own, could finally grow untainted, a testament to their resilience and the enduring power of redemption. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Two estranged brothers-one an elite synchronized diver concealing a career-ending injury, the other an auto plant shift supervisor guarding his crew from a predatory corporate purge-must both shatter the rigid armor that has kept them silent for seven years.At twenty-seven, Nate "Phoenix" Vincent is an Olympic silver medalist fighting joint degeneration, localized nerve blocks, and the ruthless scrutiny of a sports federation eager to replace him with younger talent. Paired with Jasper Wade, an explosive twenty-one-year-old former gymnast whose fierce loyalty rivals his raw athletic power, Nate pushes his body to the brink of permanent disability to defend his identity on the ten-meter platform.Three hundred miles away at the Lakeview Assembly Plant, Nate's younger brother, Calvin, bears the suffocating weight of family medical debt and executive hostility. Trapped in middle management under his cold, calculating uncle Maxwell, Calvin secretly loves shop steward Garrison "Garry" Hayes-a resilient, battle-hardened advocate fiercely devoted to his workers. When Calvin and Garrison uncover "Project Daedalus," a covert corporate plan to automate fifty-two veteran line hands out of their livelihoods, Calvin is forced into an agonizing moral crossroads: protect his corporate standing, or stand alongside the man he loves on the picket line.When their parallel battles collide during an explosive regional clinic, the long-buried trauma of their past breaks open. As the strike locks down the plant and the World Championship qualifiers approach, Nate and Calvin must confront the systems that treat them like expendable parts. From the breathless height of the ten-meter board to the frozen pavement of the strike line, The Friction of Emotion is a gripping, emotionally raw story of brotherhood, labor solidarity, queer romance, and the redemptive power of learning to land on your own terms. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Deep on the industrial fringe of deep space, Nadir Station was supposed to harvest limitless power from the vacuum. Instead, Chief Engineer Valerie Mercer watches in horror as the station's primary intake manifold breaches, unleashing the "violet bleed"-a reality-warping static that fractures the local laws of physics and devours human consciousness. Crew members are reduced to vacant shells, their memories stripped away and replaced by an alien, rhythmic clicking. When disgraced neuro-mathematician Aris Calder reveals that the Core Consortium's energy grid is actually a cosmic tether feeding predatory, multi-dimensional Gorgon leviathans, Val and her cynical welder Jaxen "Gears" Cole realize the harrowing truth: humanity's ultimate power source is a harvesting machine designed to consume the fabric of existence.Fleeing aboard the battered ghost rig The Weaver's Debt, the surviving crew is hunted through the disintegrating void by Kaelen Vex and his Echo Vanguard-a nihilistic cult that worships the memory-erasing Static as spiritual ascension. Every thruster ignition and energy draw becomes a beacon that draws the cosmic leviathans closer, while the violet bleed relentlessly gnaws at the crew's minds, eroding their identities, pasts, and sanity. Desperate to retain their humanity, Val and Gears begin carving their names, schematics, and memories directly into their flesh with welding styluses, relying on the physical sting of scars as their only anchors in an unraveling universe.With the sky fracturing and the leviathan preparing to cross into realspace, Val and her crew must mount a desperate strike against the Opal Citadel-the gleaming epicenter of Consortium rule-to broadcast the forbidden Genesis Log and collapse the energy grid. But shutting down a dimensional tear of this magnitude requires a living conduit to withstand the catastrophic feedback of the Singularity Engine. Val must choose between saving humanity from cosmic extinction or preserving the last shreds of her own identity, preparing to weld shut the dimensional wound at the cost of everything she has ever known. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…