Helmi lever ett till synes lyckligt liv. Hon har ett tryggt jobb, en fin lägenhet och en nära vän som hon kan berätta allt för. Problemet är bara att arbetet känns meningslöst, lägenheten ekar ödsligt och vännen är ett stoppat gosedjur vid namn Monstret. Men allt förändras när det börjar hända märkliga saker runt Helmi. Saker som hon inte kan förklara på annat sätt än att hon håller på att bli galen … En man och en kvinna dyker upp och kallar sig för väktare. De menar att Helmi har magiska krafter och behöver deras beskydd. Men från vem? Och finns magi verkligen på riktigt? Plötsligt befinner sig Helmi i en värld där ingenting är som det var och där verkligheten är upp och ned. Mörkret kommer närmare och närmare och Helmi måste nu välja att fly – eller att slåss. Finns det hopp för Helmi att finna riktiga vänner – trots att hon för länge sedan gett upp drömmen om äkta vänskap, eller till och med kärlek? Möt Helmi och de andra osannolika karaktärerna i en bok om ont och gott, vänskap och fiendskap, kärlek och hat.

When the scientist Victor Frankenstein attempts to create life in his laboratory, he sets in motion tragic forces beyond his control and faces losing everything he loves. No reader in the grip of Mary Shelley’s novel, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the countless adaptations, imitations, and homages which have followed in its ample wake. In her first novel, written at the instigation of Lord Byron and published in 1818 (and revised in 1831), the teenaged Shelley managed to produce English Romanticism’s finest prose fiction. This edition reproduces her original 1818 text.

CICADA 3301 är berättelsen om hur ett internetmysterium fångade en hel värld. I början av 2012 läggs ett märkligt meddelande upp på världens största anonyma nätforum. En hemlig organisation kallad 3301 söker efter ”högintelligenta individer” som vill förändra världen. Internets skarpaste hjärnor samlas snabbt kring utmaningen. Är det en underrättelsetjänst som rekryterar? En hackergrupp? En cybersekt med storhetsvansinne? Under flera års tid fascineras miljoner människor av de chiffer och gåtor som organisationen planterar. Det blir en skattjakt som leder ner i internets mörkaste korridorer men också ut i den fysiska världen, med ledtrådar utplacerade över hela jordklotet. Vinnare tycks rekryteras, men där tar alla spår av 3301 slut. Tack vare unika intervjuer och över en miljon raderade chattloggar kan journalisten JONATHAN LUNDBERG för första gången berätta hela historien om internets största mysterium. Samtidigt tar författaren med oss på en bildningsresa genom allt från krypteringshistoria och satanism, till cypherpunk och kampen om frihet på nätet. Vem eller vilka var 3301? Efter ett decennium av spekulationer, tror sig Lundberg ha funnit svaret.

CICADA 3301 är berättelsen om hur ett internetmysterium fångade en hel värld. I början av 2012 läggs ett märkligt meddelande upp på världens största anonyma nätforum. En hemlig organisation kallad 3301 söker efter ”högintelligenta individer” som vill förändra världen. Internets skarpaste hjärnor samlas snabbt kring utmaningen. Är det en underrättelsetjänst som rekryterar? En hackergrupp? En cybersekt med storhetsvansinne? Under flera års tid fascineras miljoner människor av de chiffer och gåtor som organisationen planterar. Det blir en skattjakt som leder ner i internets mörkaste korridorer men också ut i den fysiska världen, med ledtrådar utplacerade över hela jordklotet. Vinnare tycks rekryteras, men där tar alla spår av 3301 slut. Tack vare unika intervjuer och över en miljon raderade chattloggar kan journalisten JONATHAN LUNDBERG för första gången berätta hela historien om internets största mysterium. Samtidigt tar författaren med oss på en bildningsresa genom allt från krypteringshistoria och satanism, till cypherpunk och kampen om frihet på nätet. Vem eller vilka var 3301? Efter ett decennium av spekulationer, tror sig Lundberg ha funnit svaret.

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world’s leading expert on megaprojects   “This book is important, timely, instructive, and entertaining. What more could you ask for?”—Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow   “Over-budget and over-schedule is an inevitability. Incompetence and grift is outrageous. Bent Flyvbjerg, with this terrific data-driven book, has shown that there is another way.”—Frank Gehry Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York’s skyline in twenty-one months, or how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months. These are wonderful stories. But most of the time big visions turn into nightmares. Remember Boston’s “Big Dig”? Almost every sizeable city in the world has such a fiasco in its backyard. In fact, no less than 92% of megaprojects come in over budget or over schedule, or both. The cost of California’s high-speed rail project soared from $33 billion to $100 billon—and won’t even go where promised. More modest endeavors, whether launching a small business, organizing a conference, or just finishing a work project on time, also commonly fail. Why? Understanding what distinguishes the triumphs from the failures has been the life’s work of Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg, dubbed “the world’s leading megaproject expert.” In How Big Things Get Done, he identifies the errors in judgment and decision-making that lead projects, both big and small, to fail, and the research-based principles that will make you succeed with yours. For example: • Understand your odds. If you don’t know them, you won’t win. • Plan slow, act fast. Getting to the action quick feels right. But it’s wrong.  • Think right to left. Start with your goal, then identify the steps to get there. • Find your Lego. Big is best built from small. • Be a team maker. You won’t succeed without an “us.” • Master the unknown unknowns. Most think they can’t, so they fail. Flyvbjerg shows how you can. • Know that your biggest risk is you. Full of vivid examples ranging from the building of the Sydney Opera House, to the making of the latest Pixar blockbusters, to a home renovation in Brooklyn gone awry, How Big Things Get Done reveals how to get any ambitious project done—on time and on budget.

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he?

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes. Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, it can survive unprotected in space, and thrives amidst nuclear radiation. In this captivating adventure, Merlin Sheldrake explores the spectacular and neglected world of fungi: endlessly surprising organisms that sustain nearly all living systems. They can solve problems without a brain, stretching traditional definitions of ‘intelligence’, and can manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties, which have influenced societies since antiquity, have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. The ability of fungi to digest plastic, explosives, pesticides and crude oil is being harnessed in break-through technologies, and the discovery that they connect plants in underground networks, the ‘Wood Wide Web’, is transforming the way we understand ecosystems. Yet they live their lives largely out of sight, and over ninety percent of their species remain undocumented. Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into this hidden kingdom of life, and shows that fungi are key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel and behave. The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.

Loyalties are tested in this sequel to Orphans of the Tide , a smart, unique middle grade read perfect for fans of Wildwood or The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Ellie and Seth know more than most people do about living amongst gods. Ellie, an inventor with a tragic past, was once forced to become the human Vessel for the most wicked god of all, the Enemy; Seth, a mysterious boy with no memories, has just discovered that he’s actually a god himself. So when they escape the City and all of its inhabitants who want them dead, they hope to find a new island—free of gods—to call home. Months on a homemade raft have stretched their patience with each other, but at last they spot land—and when they arrive, it seems like every bit the paradise they’d been dreaming of. But the tropical island has its secrets just as the City did, and Ellie and Seth are faced with impossible questions about who they can trust and who they can’t—including each other. 

Celeste Barden is about to face her biggest challenge yet. Celeste, Esme, Logan and Ferd are summoned to the Realm of Mountains to answer for the part they've played in the growing rebellion, and Celeste soon finds herself in a brand-new kind of trouble. Separated from her cousin and forced to work with the trickster Pan, Celeste must navigate the wild landscape, dodge dangerous creatures, find Ferd, save a Guardian, recover a hagstone and rescue a friend. No pressure. And this adventure is just the beginning. A shocking discovery in the Realm of Mountains changes everything, and when Wherewithal seeks allies in the Realm of Desert, they find the outpost in chaos and a deadly creature on the prowl. The Realms have never been so perilous – and Celeste has never had quite so much to lose.

Loyalties are tested in this sequel to Orphans of the Tide , a smart, unique middle grade read perfect for fans of Wildwood or The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Ellie and Seth know more than most people do about living amongst gods. Ellie, an inventor with a tragic past, was once forced to become the human Vessel for the most wicked god of all, the Enemy; Seth, a mysterious boy with no memories, has just discovered that he’s actually a god himself. So when they escape the City and all of its inhabitants who want them dead, they hope to find a new island—free of gods—to call home. Months on a homemade raft have stretched their patience with each other, but at last they spot land—and when they arrive, it seems like every bit the paradise they’d been dreaming of. But the tropical island has its secrets just as the City did, and Ellie and Seth are faced with impossible questions about who they can trust and who they can’t—including each other. 

An ancient myth looms over a new friendship. The City is the only home that Ellie has ever known. She's always been told that there is nothing to see beyond the shores of her small, salty island. That is, until a mysterious boy washes in with the tide, trapped inside the belly of a whale. The citizens of the City believe he's ruled by the Enemy--the legendary god who drowned the whole world--come again to cause untold chaos. Only Ellie believes that the boy is innocent. To save him, Ellie must prove that he's not who they think he is--even if that means revealing her own dangerous secret.

An ancient myth looms over a new friendship. The City is the only home that Ellie has ever known. She's always been told that there is nothing to see beyond the shores of her small, salty island. That is, until a mysterious boy washes in with the tide, trapped inside the belly of a whale. The citizens of the City believe he's ruled by the Enemy--the legendary god who drowned the whole world--come again to cause untold chaos. Only Ellie believes that the boy is innocent. To save him, Ellie must prove that he's not who they think he is--even if that means revealing her own dangerous secret.

Celeste Barden is about to face her biggest challenge yet. Celeste, Esme, Logan and Ferd are summoned to the Realm of Mountains to answer for the part they've played in the growing rebellion, and Celeste soon finds herself in a brand-new kind of trouble. Separated from her cousin and forced to work with the trickster Pan, Celeste must navigate the wild landscape, dodge dangerous creatures, find Ferd, save a Guardian, recover a hagstone and rescue a friend. No pressure. And this adventure is just the beginning. A shocking discovery in the Realm of Mountains changes everything, and when Wherewithal seeks allies in the Realm of Desert, they find the outpost in chaos and a deadly creature on the prowl. The Realms have never been so perilous – and Celeste has never had quite so much to lose.

Piper has never seen the Mark of the Dragonfly until she finds the girl amid the wreckage of a caravan in the Meteor Fields.  The girl doesn't remember a thing about her life, but the intricate tattoo on her arm is proof that she's from the Dragonfly Territories and that she's protected by the king. Which means a reward for Piper if she can get the girl home.  The one sure way to the Territories is the 401, a great old beauty of a train. But a ticket costs more coin than Piper could make in a year. And stowing away is a difficult prospect--everyone knows that getting past the peculiar green-eyed boy who stands guard is nearly impossible.  Life for Piper just turned dangerous. A little bit magical. And very exciting, if she can manage to survive the journey.