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The Machine
This is the never-before told story of Booking's rise, zenith and moral decay
La máquina
La máquina es la historia fascinante y convulsa de Booking.com. Todo empezó en 1996, cuando un recién graduado de los Países Bajos fundó un sitio de reservas hoteleras en internet. En aquellos años estaba todo por hacer: internet era todavía muy desconocido y lento, y el comercio electrónico era casi inexistente. Hoy Booking.com aporta el 90% de la facturación de su empresa matriz americana, cotiza en la bolsa de Nueva York, y tiene un valor superior a importantes compañías tecnológicas como Netflix o Uber. Una empresa absolutamente desconocida —a pesar de ser líder mundial de su mercado y con miles de empleados en todo el mundo—, hasta que las ayudas que recibió del gobier...
De Machine
Drie NRC-journalisten doorgronden Booking.com
Op zoek naar de verstrooide tijd
In Op zoek naar de verstrooide tijd onderzoekt Koen Haegens met humor en aan de hand van grote denkers de paradox tussen altijd te druk en en het weg scrollen van de uren in onze dag. Koen Haegens is al zijn hele leven gefascineerd door tijd. In zijn boek Op zoek naar de verstrooide tijd wordt hij door een ingrijpende gebeurtenis die hem bijna het leven kost geconfronteerd met een mysterie. Hoe kan het dat we van elk moment willen genieten maar ondertussen al swipend, scrollend en bingewatchend smijten met de uren, alsof ze niet op kunnen? Met verwondering en humor onderzoekt Haegens hoe we tijd vermorsen, ongemerkt door onze vingers laten glippen, maar ook hoe we kunnen leren de tijd te nem...
American Kingpin
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything—drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons—free of the government’s watchful eye. It wasn’t long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone—not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackers—could buy and sell contraband detection-free. Spurred by a public outc...
Basta
*****Shortlisted for International Autobiography of the Year in the Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2021'This account is often poetic and sometimes haunting.' - FourFourTwoTriple European Footballer of the Year. Once World Footballer of the Year. European Champion two UEFA Super Cups, European Champion with the Dutch National Team in 1988 and numerous national championships with both Ajax and AC Milan. Marco van Basten is known as one of the greatest footballers of all time, but his personal life has always remained somewhat of a mystery, until now.Basta is the raw, honest, but above all gripping autobiography of Marco van Basten.It's the unfiltered story of his rise to fame, from being under t...
The Murder of Harriet Monckton
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Into the Darkest Corner comes a delicious Victorian crime novel based on a true story that shocked and fascinated the nation. On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton, 23 years old and a woman of respectable parentage and religious habits, is found murdered in the privy behind the chapel she regularly attended in Bromley, Kent. The community is appalled by her death, apparently as a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussic acid, and even more so when the surgeon reports that Harriet was around six months pregnant. Drawing on the coroner's reports and witness testimonies, Elizabeth Haynes builds a compelling picture of Harriet's final hours through the eyes of those closest to her and the last people to see her alive. Her fellow teacher and companion, her would-be fiancé, her seducer, her former lover—all are suspects; each has a reason to want her dead. Brimming with lust, mistrust and guilt, The Murder of Harriet Monckton is a masterclass of suspense from one of our greatest crime writers.
Byobu
Byobu reveals a rich inner world, one driven by its meticulous attention to our rich outer one. "a story’s existence, even if not well defined or well assigned, even if only in its formative stage, just barely latent, emits vague but urgent emanations." Byobu's every interaction trembles with possibility and faint menace. A crack in the walls of his house, marring it forever, means he must burn it down. A stoplight asks what the value of obedience is, what hopefulness it contains, and what insensible anarchy it defies. In brief episodes, aphorisms, and moments of spiritual turbulence and gentle scrutiny, reside a wealth of habits, worries, curiosities, pleasures, peculiarities, and efforts to understand. Representative of the modesty and complexity of Ida Vitale’s poetic universe, Byobu flushes the world with meaning and playfully offers another way of inhabiting the every day.
Sex Education: The Road Trip
The only official SEX EDUCATION novel. When the screen binge is over, return to the world of Moordale with a brand-new story featuring the show's most popular characters Maeve gets an unexpected call from her brother Sean. It's no surprise to her that he is in trouble again. But she's the only family he's got, so she must saddle up and ride to the rescue. Or at least, scrounge a lift from Aimee and drive there .... Otis and Eric insist they can help, and Maeve's mission becomes a summer holiday road trip. Sean's been partying with a group of decadent socialites who have now accused him of a crime. The evidence against him is pretty damning. Trying to clear his name, Maeve and friends integra...
Uncontained
Author Robert Hassan believes that we are 'trapped in a digital prison of constant distraction', and that the time we spend on screens is draining more from us than hours in the day. With the increasing amount of attention that digital devices demand, diminishing our capacity for reflection, there is less time to stop and think about our lives.So what happens when we remove these technologies altogether?In order to break free from the 'digital prison', Hassan booked passage on a containership and spent five weeks travelling from Melbourne to Singapore - disconnected and essentially alone. In this space of isolation and reflection, he was able to reconnect with lost memories and interrogate the temporality of both 'clock time' and lived experience.Uncontained is an account of Hassan's voyage of discovery - a must-read for anyone who resents the encroachment of the digital on their inner world.
