El Monstruo de la Realidad Virtual (the Monster of Virtual Reality) PDF Download

Author: Jordi Sierra i Fabra
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484426449
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 112

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Tony and Alex are thrilled to discover a virtual reality game outside the market, but when they enter the game, monster attacks make it all too realistic. When Alex disappears, Tony realizes that it isn't a game, and he must find a way to save his fr

Author: Jordi Sierra i Fabra
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781338571097
Category : Monsters
Languages : es
Pages : 119

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Toño y Alex casi no pueden creer en su buena suerte cuando descubren una cápsula de realidad virtual a las fueras de una feria. En cuanto entran en la cápsula, se dan cuenta de que no se trata de un videojuego cualquiera: los efectos son tan realistas, que sienten dolor cuando las criaturas los atacan. Tomor, el monstruo que domina ese mundo virtual, captura a Alex y reta a Toño a que lo rescate. Cansado de luchar, Toño se quita el casco y descubre con horror que la cápsula no es ningún juego.

Author: José Rodrigo Saltó Sáenz
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530367573
Category : Virtual reality
Languages : es
Pages : 190

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9 años en el futuro la Realidad Virtual se ha vuelto un escape para la mayoría de la población. Digital/ Dreams es el juego de moda, guerreros, caballeros, espadachines, hechiceros y bárbaros conviven en un mundo digital lleno de seres extraños y aventuras. Sin embargo un intruso ha infectado el juego, y es posible que lo que se creía tan solo un mundo virtual, en realidad sea mucho más que eso.

Author: Matthew Mather
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 144343227X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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In this prescient thriller about an all-too-possible scenario, a man fights to keep his family alive when a cyberworld meltdown and fierce storms cut New York City off from the world. Mike Mitchell is an average New Yorker living in an apartment in Chelsea, struggling to keep his family together. When the Internet goes down, he suddenly finds himself fighting just to keep them alive. The electricity and power supplies fade in and out, and the explanations offered by the authorities are vague and untrustworthy. A string of increasingly bizarre disasters starts appearing on the world’s news networks, and a monster snowstorm hits New York City before Christmas. Mike and his close friends and family hunker down in their apartment building for safety, organizing and rationing food and water. Outside, the boundaries between lawful and criminal behaviour break down as resources become scarce. With the threat to their safety growing, Mike and his family pin their hopes on fleeing the city for the countryside. But as the world and cyberworld come crashing down, New York is suddenly cut off, turning the city into a wintry tomb where nothing is what it seems, and where no one can be trusted . . .

Author: Sayak Valencia
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1635900581
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism. “Death has become the most profitable business in existence.” —from Gore Capitalism Written by the Tijuana activist intellectual Sayak Valencia, Gore Capitalism is a crucial essay that posits a decolonial, feminist philosophical approach to the outbreak of violence in Mexico and, more broadly, across the global regions of the Third World. Valencia argues that violence itself has become a product within hyper-consumerist neoliberal capitalism, and that tortured and mutilated bodies have become commodities to be traded and utilized for profit in an age of impunity and governmental austerity. In a lucid and transgressive voice, Valencia unravels the workings of the politics of death in the context of contemporary networks of hyper-consumption, the ups and downs of capital markets, drug trafficking, narcopower, and the impunity of the neoliberal state. She looks at the global rise of authoritarian governments, the erosion of civil society, the increasing violence against women, the deterioration of human rights, and the transformation of certain cities and regions into depopulated, ghostly settings for war. She offers a trenchant critique of masculinity and gender constructions in Mexico, linking their misogynist force to the booming trade in violence. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to analyze the new landscapes of war. It provides novel categories that allow us to deconstruct what is happening, while proposing vital epistemological tools developed in the convulsive Third World border space of Tijuana.

Author: Emmanuel Carrère
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312420604
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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The true story of a man who spun a web of lies around his life takes readers deep inside the mind of a psychotic man who managed to convince thousands of people that he was a successful, credentialed physician.

Author: Jordi Sierra i Fabra
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781676657286
Category : Children and adults
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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One year before his death Frank Kafka had an extraordinary experience. Having a walk through Steglitz Park, in Berlin, he found a little girl crying heartbroken. She had lost her doll. To calm her down Frank introduced himself as the Dolls's Postman, and told the little girl that the doll was away on a trip but had sent a letter for her that will be delivered by himself the following day. For three weeks Frank focused exclusively on the doll's letters that he handed on every day to the girl. Nobody has ever known who that little girl was and what happened with the letters.

Author: Noël Valis
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300265662
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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A reflection on Federico García Lorca’s life, his haunting death, and the fame that reinvigorated the marvelous in the modern world “A galaxy of critical insights into the cultural shock waves circling and crisscrossing Lorca’s execution and his unknown resting place, there is not a single book on Lorca like this one.”—Andrés Zamora, Vanderbilt University There is something fundamentally unfinished about the life and work of Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), and not simply because his life ended abruptly. Noël Valis reveals how this quality gives shape to the ways in which he has been continuously re-imagined since his death. Lorca’s execution at the start of the Spanish Civil War was not only horrific but transformative, setting in motion many of the poet’s afterlives. He is intimately tied to both an individual and a collective identity, as the people’s poet, a gay icon, and fabled member of a dead poets’ society. The specter of his violent death continues to haunt everything connected to Lorca, fueling the desire to fill in the gaps in the poet’s biography.

Author: Folke Gernert
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110695758
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.

Author: Daniel Chavez
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826503675
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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The history of modern Nicaragua is populated with leaders promising a new and better day. Inevitably, as Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia demonstrates, reality casts a shadow and the community must look to the next leader. As an impoverished state, second only to Haiti in the Americas, Nicaragua has been the scene of cyclical attempts and failures at modern development. Author Daniel Chavez investigates the cultural and ideological bases of what he identifies as the three decisive movements of social reinvention in Nicaragua: the regimes of the Somoza family of much of the early to mid-twentieth century; the governments of the Sandinista party; and the present-day struggle to adapt to the global market economy. For each era, Chavez reveals the ways Nicaraguan popular culture adapted and interpreted the new political order, shaping, critiquing, or amplifying the regime's message of stability and prosperity for the people. These tactics of interpretation, otherwise known as meaning-making, became all-important for the Nicaraguan people, as they opposed the autocracy of Somocismo, or complemented the Sandinistas, or struggled to find their place in the Neoliberal era. In every case, Chavez shows the reflective nature of cultural production and its pursuit of utopian idealism.