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Barbara Stoner, Robert Peate
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R196
Discovery Miles 1 960
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Aria Anunahi, Robert Peate
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Discovery Miles 2 070
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Essays (Paperback)
Beverly Garside, Robert Peate
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R200
Discovery Miles 2 000
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Adaptech made its fortune with the Mind Drive, a product
enabling control of electronic devices through thought. Most Metra
Corp citizens adopted Mind Drive technology quickly, welcoming it
as a more efficient way to interact with everything from computers
to coffee machines. Now Adaptech wants to use its own employees to
test a new product, an extension of Mind Drive tech known as the
Lightcap.
After Adam Redmon is promoted to lead the group of programmers
tasked with testing this new device, his strange dreams begin to
blur into reality. When a member of his team abruptly disappears,
Adam uncovers evidence showing his employers didn't fully disclose
the Lightcap's functions and side effects. What he learns puts him
directly in the crosshairs of the most powerful people in the Metra
Region, people who will stop at nothing to keep their secret
safe.
"It scares the hell out of me. Every day, politics gets closer to
the reality you project."-Bob Cone, inventor of Liquid Light The
second strike is on. John Galt's strike of the "men of the mind"
brought down Roger Thompson's dictatorship and ushered in a
conservative dream: no taxes, regulations, or social programs. The
end of government services such as policing, firefighting, and
infrastructure-building has created a vacuum filled by unscrupulous
and unregulated businesses that few can afford. With no safety or
labor standards, most Americans have abandoned their homes to work
several jobs in the cities. After eight years of living in a
dog-eat-dog wasteland, America has elected liberal Senator Laurence
Sterling (D-VT) president. Mere days before Sterling's
inauguration, twenty-six-year-old World Times reporter Evelyn Riley
hears that in recent months both absenteeism and productivity have
risen at General Motors, one of the two remaining automobile
manufacturers in Detroit, and decides to investigate. Her mother's
death decades before reminds her daily of the importance of family
and human connections. Little does Evelyn know that John Galt is
planning his return to fight Sterling, or that this time a new
generation of labor leaders is preparing a strike of its own. "If
you have ever read Atlas Shrugged, whether you liked it or not, you
really should read this book."-David Scott Moyer "I really like
your quote 'I live for Humanity, and I ask Humanity to live for me
(and for everyone else).' That's the way it should be."-Paul
Buchheit, professor of economic justice at DePaul University For
more information, please view sisyphusshruggedbook.com or
robertpeate.com.
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