Une fable historique fascinante et dérangeante qu'on ne peut pas lâcher. "19 avril 1936. Bientôt minuit. Je vais naître dans une minute exactement. Je vais voir le jour le 20 avril. Date anniversaire de notre Fürher. Je serai ainsi béni des dieux germaniques et l'on verra en moi le premier-né de la race suprême. La race aryenne. Celle qui désormais régnera en maître sur le monde. Je suis l'enfant du futur. Conçu sans amour. Sans Dieu. Sans loi. Sans rien d'autre que la force et la rage. Je...

A compelling and chilling read about a young boy’s ambition to become a model soldier in Nazi Germany.Baby Max is the perfect prototype of the Nazi eugenics programme; he is the ideal size, he has the correct colour hair and flawless blue eyes. Raised in an ideology driven by hatred and ruled by fear, Max is taught to endure pain and be brave at all costs. But as he is drawn further into the horror of war, Max must fight to untangle the truth from the lie.

Nazi Germany 1936. The Lebensborn program is going strong as German women are carefully selected by the Nazis and recruited to give birth to new representatives of the Aryan race. Inside one of these women is Max, a fetus waiting to be born and fulfill his destiny as the perfect Aryan.Max is taken away from his birth mother as soon as he enters the world. He will be raised under the leadership and ideologies of the Nazi Party. As he grows up without a mom, without any affection or t...

This book brings fresh insights into how social spaces shape the way we experience and understand security. Chapters unite voices from critical security studies, urban geography, criminology and political science to rethink the link between security and space, from neighbourhood crime to global conflict.By viewing security through a spatial lens, the book uncovers the social, economic and political forces that shape security issues in everyday life offering vital insights for curre...

An extended and fearless exploration on the meaning of manhood in contemporary Western culture—at a moment in time in which both Fatherhood and Manhood have become endangered concepts. Pointing out the need for strong male relationships and guidance, this book offers an essential prescription for the psychological health of modern Western societies, which have lost the thread of traditional cultures and their time-honored rites of passage.The extensive letter exchange between father...

This book stems from the growing use of learning-based techniques, such as reinforcement learning and adaptive control, in the control of autonomous and safety-critical systems. Safety is critical to many applications, such as autonomous driving, air traffic control, and robotics. As these learning-enabled technologies become more prevalent in the control of autonomous systems, it becomes increasingly important to ensure that such systems are safe. To address these challenges, the authors ...

In 1859 schreef een teleurgestelde ambtenaar uit Nederlands-Indië, Eduard Douwes Dekker, onder de schuilnaam Multatuli een boek met als titel Max Havelaar of de koffieveilingen der Nederlandsche Handelmaatschappij. Dat boek was een felle aanklacht tegen de misstanden als gevolg van het Nederlandse bewind in Nederlands- Indië. De Max Havelaar op dit luisterboek is een hertaling van NRC-redacteur Gijsbert van Es. Het is iets korter dan de oorspronkelijke versie en vooral: in modern Nederland...

»Wozu die deutsche Kriminalliteratur in der Lage ist, zeigt der fantastische Band ?Berlin Noir?. Besser kann man sich nicht durch Berlin führen lassen.« Thekla Dannenberg, Perlentaucher Ein spannendes literarisches Städteporträt und eine tiefschwarze Liebeserklärung an eine Stadt, die vor allem eines ist: keine Sekunde langweilig. 13 Kurzgeschichten, 13 Blickwinkel, 13 Stadtviertel - und 13 faszinierende Teile eines größeren Puzzles. Das Verbrechen zieht seine blutige Spur vom noblen Grune...

From one of the preeminent literary voices in Israel comes a darkly funny collection of surrealist stories exploring the increasingly complex relationship between humans and technology.Set in our world, alternate realities, distant futures, and the immortal realm, the stories in Autocorrect traverse the wide range of human experience. With wit and creativity, Keret blends the absurd and the profound, juxtaposing life's smallest details with weighty existen...

»Wozu die deutsche Kriminalliteratur in der Lage ist, zeigt der fantastische Band ?Berlin Noir?. Besser kann man sich nicht durch Berlin führen lassen.« Thekla Dannenberg, Perlentaucher Ein spannendes literarisches Städteporträt und eine tiefschwarze Liebeserklärung an eine Stadt, die vor allem eines ist: keine Sekunde langweilig. 13 Kurzgeschichten, 13 Blickwinkel, 13 Stadtviertel - und 13 faszinierende Teile eines größeren Puzzles. Das Verbrechen zieht seine blutige Spur vom noblen Grune...

A remarkable debut novel—written with the fearless imagination of Michael Chabon and the piercing humor of Gary Shteyngart—about a small Jewish village in the Polish forest that is so secluded no one knows it exists . . . until now.What if there was a town that history missed?For decades, the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol existed in happy isolation, virtually untouched and unchanged. Spared by the Holocaust and the Cold War, its residents enjoyed remarkable...

The Whumpy Printing Press presents: High Stakes and Bloody BusinessFrom bloodthirsty monsters to misunderstood victims, this anthology brings together thirty vampire stories. The vampires in these stories are sometimes good, sometimes bad, but they're always hungry.So sink your teeth into this collection to satisfy your (fictional) bloodlust.Included authors: Kailey Alessi, Ennis Rook Bashe, Max Browne, Mill Cohen, Alfie Court, Megan Renee Doyle, Booker G. ...