1912. A mysterious and luxurious Casino hidden in the mountains outside Barcelona, the cradle of the European Art Nouveau explosion; a legendary secret room where gamblers who had lost everything could discreetly commit suicide; a serial killer on the loose; "Bicycle man", a young and peculiar police sub-inspector who will never give up.2021. The ruins of an old casino are barely visible through the vegetation; a serial killer still on the loose; a...

A mysterious and luxurious Casino hidden in the mountains outside Barcelona, the cradle of the European Art Nouveau explosion; a legendary secret room where gamblers who had lost everything could discreetly commit suicide; a serial killer on the loose; "Bicycle man", a young and peculiar police sub-inspector who will never give up.The ruins of an old casino are barely visible through the vegetation; a serial killer still on the loose; a journalist ...

The peaceful lives and the future of several generations of New Zealand families will be tragically altered by their active participation in the two World Wars.During World War II, New Zealand was helpless against the threat of a Japanese invasion. Defense Minister Bob Semple, devised a naive but ambitious program to design a secret weapon, a tank that could be easily built over the chassis of a modest tractor-excavator, of which there were thousands throughout the country....

When a proposition sounds too good to be true, it probably is.Elsa's life is falling apart, abandoned by her partner, jobless, a young single mother of a 1-year-old baby. When she receives a mysterious and unexpected proposition to leave Barcelona and move to France, to live and work in a magnificent castle, all expenses paid, surrounded by horses, forests, and beautiful lakes, she jumps at the opportunity, eager to start a new life.But Lacroix Castle has been hiding a dark...

Can we communicate with those waiting for us into the light at the end of the tunnel?Marc, a recently divorced art restoration expert cannot believe his son when the kid tells him he is having phone conversations with his grandfather, which would be nothing out of the ordinary, except for the fact that his grandfather has been dead for years.In 1140 AD, a young friar on a secret mission for one of his superiors is chased by an evil entity and will ...

Can we communicate with those waiting for us into the light at the end of the tunnel?Marc, a recently divorced art restoration expert cannot believe his son when the kid tells him he is having phone conversations with his grandfather, which would be nothing out of the ordinary, except for the fact that his grandfather has been dead for years.In 1140 AD, a young friar on a secret mission for one of his superiors is chased by an evil entity and will ...

In 1518, a young Aztec princess in love with a Spanish conquistador will be cursed for eternity by an ancient Aztec she-devil. The curse will only be broken if another couple succeeds in decoding the clues that will lead them to discover an access to the Underworld and defeat the she-devil. Sam, a young Spanish doctor, and Estrella, a Mexican archeologist, will travel the world on a dangerous quest to unravel the clues and reverse the ancient Aztec curse that 500 years earlier doomed the A...

Could legendary composer Chopin have been part of a secret conspiracy to save the free world from the greatest threat in its millenary history?In 1913, Barcelona was a city in social and cultural turmoil. A few months after the unexplainable disappearance of Subinspector Morillo in a mysterious Casino hidden in the mountains, Inés will be hunted by a sinister secret organization that has spent centuries searching for a mysterious object that can forever alter the balance of power i...

I.AM catalyzes the “convergence for good” of the biological, physical and digital worlds, helping us to better tackle the toughest challenges of the 2020s: climate change, resource depletion, an aging population, social inclusion, the empowerment of people, health crises and the post-pandemic world, as well as new issues emerging in relation to economical, societal and everyday life. This book dives into disruptive concepts of I.AM such as: Trust as a Service, Business as a Game, ATAWAD (A...

Globale Migrationsbewegungen, Sicherheitsbedrohungen und soziale Umwälzungen haben in den vergangenen Jahren den Aufstieg populistischer rechter Parteien und Bewegungen in Europa und im transatlantischen Raum befördert. Religiöse Akteure stellen potenzielle Allianzpartner für diese Gruppierungen dar. Denn religiöse Interpretationen, etwa die Bezugnahme auf christliche Traditionen, bieten ein Reservoir für die Konstruktion vermeintlich natürlicher Geschlechterordnungen, exkludierender Vorst...

Bruno Cadogan has flown from New York to Buenos Aires in search of the elusive and legendary Julio Martel, a tango singer whose voice has never been recorded yet is said to be so beautiful it is almost supernatural. Bruno is increasingly drawn to the mystery of Martel and his strange and evocative performances in a series of apparently arbitrary sites around the city. As Bruno tries to find Martel, he begins to untangle the story of the singer's life, and to believe that Martel's increasin...

His missionary father dies in the jaws of a giant Amazon boa. At age four he sees his mother from the Waika people raped and murdered by Colombian drug traders who hurl the orphan boy into the upper Rio Negro. A fresh water dolphin grieving the loss of her own baby rescues him and noses him to shore. So begins the feral rearing of Lazaro, nurtured by the most intellectually gifted creatures in the world outside of mankind. But "civilization" menaces beyond the fringe of his jungle home. An...