The Cambridge Student Guide to Romeo and Juliet provides explanatory notes and guidance to help form the basis for the understanding of the play. It is part of a new series aimed at students from 16 years upwards in schools and colleges throughout the English-speaking world. Background informati[...]
This new edition of Twelfth Night is part of the established Cambridge School Shakespeare series and has been substantially updated with new and revised activities throughout. Remaining faithful to the series' active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted, explored and enjoyed. As well[...]
In the Matrix of cyberspace, angels and voodoo zaibatsus fight it out for world domination and computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero risk their minds for fat crumbs.[...]
A diet plan proven to relieve symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome and other digestive disorders presented by the world s leading experts and tailored to you What can I do to feel better? For years, millions of adults who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have asked this question, often to [...]
Denne mye brukte håndboken i oppgaveskriving er en bok man har glede av gjennom hele studieløpet. Den passer for studenter i alle fag, på alle nivåer. Boken handler først og fremst om ulike typer selvstendige oppgaver, men inneholder også stoff om bundne oppgaver. Forfatterne tar utgangspunkt [...]
Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the[...]
'Neuromancer' is the most influencial science fiction novel of our time. Cyberspace and virtual reality were invented in this book; it changed forever the way we look at tomorrow.[...]
The author's first collection of short stories set in the Sprawl, the landscape of "Neuromancer". Cybernetics, biotech and the communication web are constant themes throughout.[...]
The last of the Sprawl trilogy: the AIs of Neuromancer have suffered a traumatized, cataclysmic coming to self-awareness and now haunt cyberspace as voodoo powers.[...]
Voyager Classics - timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy. A beautiful clothbound edition of Neuromancer, the most influential science fiction novel of our time. The novel that launched the cyberpunk generation, heralded the coming of the internet, and won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K [...]
Ten short stories by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Neuromancer deal with a human memory bank, UFOs, sleep machines, interstellar travel, a Soviet space station, and computer crime in such works as "Johnny Mnemonic" and the title tale. Reprint.[...]
"Virtual Light" - a gripping techno-thriller from William Gibson, bestselling author of "Neuromancer". "Audacious, witty and passionate. A wonderful read". ("Observer"). "A stunner ...a terrifically stylish burst of kick-butt imagination". ("Entertainment Weekly"). San Francisco, the nearish future:[...]
"All Tomorrow's Parties" - a groundbreaking novel from William Gibson, author of "Neuromancer". "Scintillating ...probably the most important novelist of the past two decades". ("Guardian"). "Writing at flame intensity, Gibson conjures a world that seems just a breath away from the here and now". (S[...]
"Idoru" - a gripping techno-thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of "Neuromancer". "Fast, witty and cleverly politicized". ("Guardian"). Tokyo, post-event: After an attack of scruples, Colin Laney's skipped out on his former employer Slitscan - avoiding the rash of media lawyers sent his w[...]
"Pattern Recognition" - a pulsating techno-thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of "Neuromancer". Cayce Pollard has been flown to London. She's a 'coolhunter' - her services for hire to global corporations desperate for certainty in a capricious and uncertain world. Now she's been offered [...]
"Spook Country" - a gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of "Neuromancer". "Among our most fascinating novelists ...unmissable". ("Daily Telegraph"). What happens when old spies come out to play one last game? In New York a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysteri[...]
Though primarily known as a novelist, over thirty years William Gibson has also built up a reputation as one of our most entertaining and insightful critics of contemporary culture. He is widely credited with having described the internet and cyberspace before any such things existed. Distrust that [...]
Flynne Fisher lives in rural near-future America where jobs are scarce and veterans from the wars are finding it hard to recover. She scrapes a living doing some freelance online game-playing, participating in some pretty weird stuff. Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the [...]
The leading figure in the development of cyberpunk, William Gibson (born in 1948) crafted works in which isolated humans explored near-future worlds of ubiquitous and intrusive computer technology and cybernetics. This volume is the first comprehensive examination of the award-winning author of the [...]
Stelarc is the most celebrated artist in the world working within technology and the visual arts. He is both an artist and a phenomenon, using his body as medium and exhibition space. Working in the interface between the body and the machine, employing virtual reality, robotics, medical instruments,[...]
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive.Enter Gibson's unique world--lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting--where multinational corporations and [...]
William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's" New York Times"-bestselling "Zero History."
Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time [...]