Over the last 30 years, advances in our technology and in our understanding of the scientific disciplines which those technologies enable have allowed humanity to glimpse the inner workings of some of our most astounding capacities, and have revealed, to even a casual glance, the staggering complexity of even our most casual functions.  This progress means that the very nature of psychology is evolving, and with these discoveries have come both new questions and new opportunities to r...

Chi, guardando un cielo stellato di notte, non si è mai chiesto almeno una volta se un giorno saremo in grado di andare tra quegli astri così remoti? L'ambizioso film Interstellar di Christopher Nolan ci conduce proprio in un viaggio del genere, e ben oltre la Via Lattea, la nostra galassia ancora visibile a occhio nudo. Ma la sua non è un'opera di pura fantasia.O meglio, lo è solo in parte. Grazie infatti alla consulenza dell'astrofisico e premio Nobel Kip Thorne, gli even...

ED ELISABETH LO SA DA SEMPRE.Trovatella allevata in una delle Grandi Biblioteche di Austermeer, è cresciuta in mezzo agli strumenti della stregoneria: grimori magici che sussurrano e sferragliano catene. Se provocati, si trasformano in mostri inquietanti di cuoio e di inchiostro. Ciò cui Elisabeth ambisce è diventare una guardiana, incaricata di proteggere il regno dalle minacce della magia.Il suo disperato tentativo di impedire l'atto di sabotaggio che libera il grimorio p...

Even the dead like to keep their secrets.When William Gove, a dying millionaire and patriarch of a vast estate in Essex, asks Daniel Connell to execute his will, Daniel has no idea what he's getting himself into. Rather than leave his fortune to his three children, Gove has chosen ten names at random from the phone book. When he dies, Daniel sets out to track down the recipients. But a chance remark by one of them - that perhaps this is God's way of compensating he...

Earth’s first warning doesn’t come from the sky—it comes from inside the human mind. Scientist Aris Thorne has been plagued by strange déjà vu episodes since childhood, flashes of moments that haven’t happened yet… or shouldn’t be happening at all. When a catastrophic anomaly tears through a secure research facility, Aris discovers the truth: his déjà vu isn’t a glitch. It’s a message—an echo leaking through hidden transdimensional portals created by an alien intelligence.As govern...

I never thought I'd be singing happy birthday to myself in a dungeon. And yet when a sinfully sexy demon crashes happy hour, that's exactly what happens. He’s known as the Lord of Chaos, and he’s mistaken me for my succubus doppelgänger. Happy birthday to me. When he tastes my blood, he finally understands I’m mortal. And I realize we have something in common: we both crave revenge.So we make a deal: I can stay in the forbidden city to hunt for my mom's killer. In return, I’ll help...

A mother's nightmare: her children taken from her because of unexplained injuries all over their bodies. Who will believe her story?When lawyer Daniel Connell receives a visit from his trouble-making old flame Victoria pleading for his help, he looks for any excuse not to get involved. But no one else believes her pleas of innocence and Daniel can see she is terrified.As he enters Victoria's life once more, Daniel's search for truth leads from the dark hear...

An authoritative interdisciplinary account of the historic discovery of gravitational wavesIn 1915, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime caused by the movement of large masses—as part of the theory of general relativity. A century later, researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed Einstein's prediction, detecting gravitational waves generated by the collision ...

One man. On the hunt for the truth. On the edge of London. And way outside the law.Daniel Connell is a disgraced ex-City lawyer now scraping a living in Essex, a man trying to escape the long shadows of his past. When an old childhood friend visits him, asking for his help with a case of police brutality, Daniel wants nothing to do with it. But obligations are obligations, and he soon finds himself on the wrong end of police attention, and dragged into the shady bu...

My relationship with Cole isn’t a simple one.It’s complicated, frustrating and, at times, downright ugly.You see, I fell for a man who couldn’t love me back.Hard as I tried to avoid the dimpled prince of Seattle, life threw us together.As much as I resisted temptation, he burrowed his way into my heart.Sinful as our attraction was, our destinies were entwined.But don’t worry. Ours is a love story after all. I had no idea how our fairytale wou...

Elf Kurzgeschichten über die Zukunft finden sich in diesem Band. Die Zusammenstellung ist das Ergebnis des Schreibwettbewerbs »Zukunft schreiben« des Career Service der Universität Siegen. Ausgewählt von der studentischen Jury spiegeln die Texte ganz aktuell mit ihren zentralen Themen und Motiven Zukunftsvisionen in die literarische Form der Kurzgeschichte. Dabei scheint immer auch die Gegenwart, der sie entstammen, durch: technisch durchgesetzte soziale Kontrolle, Künstliche Intelligenz, ...

Dragons may be extinct, but the evil they fought isn’t, and it’s stirring once more.This is what the young scholar Alaric Thorne knows as he combs the Library of Alexandria for a glimmer of hope in the looming conflict. He learns that although the dragons may be gone, that doesn’t mean they’re truly lost forever. Some part of them remains in the ruins of the city they died to protect, buried and bound to a long lost artifact: the Soulforge Amulet.When Alaric sets out to unc...