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"Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen; married the boss's son at twenty; and was only twenty-five when her husband Hank was killed in a motorcycle accident. Broken-hearted but determined to continue the business of their dreams, she takes the life insurance money, buys a small house in a gentrifying neighborhood, flips it, then puts the money into her next project. But that house...
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2022.
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"A leading philosopher takes a mind-bending journey through virtual worlds, illuminating the nature of reality and our place within it. Virtual reality is genuine reality. That's the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of "technophilosophy," David J. Chalmers argues that virtual worlds generated by computers are not second-class worlds. We can live a meaningful life in virtual reality. We may even be living in a computer simulation...
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2021.
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"One of our great contemporary scientists presents ten insights that illuminate what every thinking person needs to know about what the world is and how it works. Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek's Fundamentals is built around a simple but profound idea: the models of the world we construct as children are practical and adequate for everyday life, but they do not bring in the surprising and mind-expanding revelations of modern science. To do that,...
4) Virtual war
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Virtual war chronologs volume 1
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[1997]
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English
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In a future world where global contamination has necessitated limited human contact, three young people with unique genetically engineered abilities are teamed up to wage a war in virtual reality.
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Hunger Games trilogy volume prequel
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"Revisit[s] the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games"--
8) Mind games
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Guardian romances (Taylor Keating) volume 2
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After escaping the clutches of the Dark Lord, River Weston is framed for horrific crimes she did not commit, while Guardian Chase Hawkins is slowly destroyed by being trapped in another man's body. River and Hawkins know if they want a future together, they must work to reveal the secrets hidden in River's past.
10) The choice
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Virtual war chronologs volume 4
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[2006]
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Tired and disillusioned, Corgan tries living a more peaceful life on Nuku Hiva, but soon must confront his nemesis, Brigand, for the last time.
11) Virtual reality
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"Engaging images accompany information about virtual reality. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7" --
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In the future, abortion has become a crime as a series of events threatens the existence of the United States. One woman wakes up to discover that her skin color has been changed to red as punishment for having the procedure done. Now she must embark on a dangerous journey in order to find refuge from a hostile and threatening society.
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"What lies at the heart of physical inquiry? What are the foundational ideas and working assumptions that inform the enterprise of natural science? What principles guide research? How do scientists decide whether they are building theories in the right direction? Is there a right direction? Do physical theories actually approximate an objective reality, or are they simply useful summaries, mnemonics for experimental results? This book is Nobel Prize...
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[2018]
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"In Defying Reality, David M. Ewalt traces the story from ancient amphitheaters to Cold War military laboratories, through decades of hype and failure, to a nineteen-year-old video game aficionado who made the impossible possible. Ewalt looks at how businesses are already using this tech to revolutionize the world around us, and what we can expect in the future. Writing for a mainstream audience as well as for technology enthusiasts, Ewalt offers...
15) Game over
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Guardian romances (Taylor Keating) volume 1
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English
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When she accidentally taps into a parallel dimension via cutting-edge technology, video game designer River Weston becomes trapped in an alternate universe she created where a Dark Lord is waiting to take her soul and use it to unleash evil upon the world.
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2015.
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"U., a 'corporate anthropologist,' is tasked with writing the Great Report, an all-encompassing ethnographic document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions, willing them to coalesce into symbols that can be translated into some kind of account that makes sense. As he begins to wonder if the Great Report might remain a shapeless,...
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"Have you ever wanted to live like someone else for a day, or maybe visit Antarctica, or jump inside your favorite video game? With virtual reality, you can do all of these things! This technology can make you feel as though you are having an amazing adventure -- even if you are just sitting in your living room. Learn all about the ins and outs of virtual reality." -- Back cover.
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Mortality doctrine volume 3
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2015.
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English
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The VirtNet has become a world of deadly consequences, and Kaine grows stronger by the day. If Kaine succeeds, it will mean worldwide cyber domination. And it looks like Michael and his friends are the only ones who can put the monster back in the box--if Michael can figure out who his friends really are.
19) Heir apparent
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Rasmussem Corporation volume 2
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2004.
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English
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While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself.
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