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The Great Family by Diego Galán Ruiz A strange sect called The Big Family. After Carlos' death and the disappearance of her boyfriend, Javier, Charlotte decides to investigate on her own. She is convinced that everything that has happened is related to the online game "The End of the Internet" and will not stop until she enters the sect and discovers all the details of how it works. Will she manage to see Javier again and find the real culprits or will she also fall into the network of the organization? "The Big Family" is a fantastic novel with a touch of a crime novel, which in each unexpected twist will manage to confuse the reader.
The end of the internet Everything is related to the existence of what they call "theElixir of Happiness", which is nothing more than an internetaddiction that occurs when individuals connect to thenetwork while wearing special glasses. With them it has aneffect that makes them feel happy, but they becomeaddicted. The attempt to resolve this situation with acomputer virus that apart from these people on the networkby governments not only does not help, but complicates thesituation. The problems for humanity and for Javier haveonly begun. The author shows in his pages the dominion ofsuspense. In "The end of the Internet" Nothing is what itseems. The unexpected turns leave the reader with hismouth open. Sci-fi with touches of black novel to enjoy.
O vício pela internet pode acabar com o mundo. Tudo está relacionado com a existência do que chamam "O elixir da felicidade", que não é mais que um vício pela internet que se produz quando os indivíduos se conectam à rede enquanto usam óculos especiais. Com eles, conseguem um efeito que os faz se sentir felizes, mas que os converte em viciados. A tentativa de solucionar essa situação com um vírus informático que separe essas pessoas da rede, por parte dos governos, não só não ajuda, senão que complica a situação. Os problemas para a humanidade e para o Javier estão apenas começando. O autor demonstra em suas páginas o domínio do suspense. Em "O fim da internet" nada é o que parece. As viradas inesperadas deixam o leitor com a boca aberta. Ficção científica com toques de romance negro para desfrutar.
The research of Jonathan Borwein has had a profound impact on optimization, functional analysis, operations research, mathematical programming, number theory, and experimental mathematics. Having authored more than a dozen books and more than 300 publications, Jonathan Borwein is one of the most productive Canadian mathematicians ever. His research spans pure, applied, and computational mathematics as well as high performance computing, and continues to have an enormous impact: MathSciNet lists more than 2500 citations by more than 1250 authors, and Borwein is one of the 250 most cited mathematicians of the period 1980-1999. He has served the Canadian Mathematics Community through his presid...
In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Pérez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Pérez interrogates the assumption that after 1957, when the Franco regime recast itself in a secular and modernizing fashion, religion vanished from the cultural field. Instead, Spanish cinema addressed the transformation within Spanish Catholicism following Vatican II and Spain’s modernization processes. Confessional Cinema offers the first analysis of a neglected body of Spanish films, "nun films," which focus on the active role of religious women in the transformation of Spanish Catholicism. Pérez argues that commercial film...