Resultados para "De experimenten" en Literatura y ficción

When your stepbrother is a hot hockey stud with more notches in his bedpost than, well anyone, he’s the perfect candidate to help you gain a little bedroom experience. At least, that's my plan this V-day.

Hay sueños que es mejor no cumplir. Una historia repleta de acción, aventura y conspiraciones en torno a la figura histórica de Saladino. Sarah Ludwig es una sofisticada ladrona de arte. Tras su último robo, un valioso Manet, contacta con ella el emir Jalid bin Ayub, un apasionado amante de...

Al investigador privado Frank Molina, borracho, marihuanero y paciente psiquiátrico, lo alcanza su pasado con una cuenta de cobro cuando la policía lo llama para que los asesore con unos extraños asesinatos que tuvieron lugar en el barrio Santa Fe. Un imitador de Jack el Destripador está...

Un experimento fallido, una cinta maldita y un cineasta atrapado en su propia pesadilla. ¿Te atreves a descubrir Demoníaco? ESCUCHA LA PSICOFONÍA DEL INFIERNO AQUÍ El 31 de octubre de 1985, un selecto grupo fue reunido para realizar el experimento de una psicofonía... Pero los involucrados...

Ten years after a steamy college hook-up that neither of them has forgotten, Easton Mason and Maya Atler cross paths at a corporate conference in Las Vegas. Easton, now a personal injury attorney, is still the charming, happy-go-lucky guy with great hands that Maya remembers from University. While she, a soaring literary lawyer, remains the stubborn, ambitious go-getter with perfect legs that he's never quite been able to get out of his head.

This audiobook invites listeners into the bleak yet vibrant world inhabited by a young man--a homeless drifter navigating the harsh realities of urban life. Through vivid imagery and poignant narrative, Crane captures a raw day in the life of this young bum, exploring themes of despair and fleeting hope against the backdrop of a bustling city struggling with its own complexities.

Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis' classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that "good reading", like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering fully into the opinions of others: "in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself."

It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free of her childhood roots in the north. Among the gossiping, flirtatious girls of Tonbridge Hall, she begins her experiments in life and love. But the year turns. The mini-skirt falls out of style and an era of concealment begins. Carmel's world darkens, and tragedy waits in the wings.

An Experiment in Luxury is the book end of all this as a young man visits his rich friend and his millionaire family. It is a conventional scene where the young man's friend, son of the household, encourages him to speak only conventionally to his mother or he will get on her bad side. We see her preoccupied with her worries and the husband/millionaire taking his mind off of it all by playing with a kitten.

"An Experiment in Misery" in a story similar to "The Men in the Storm" except that it focuses on one character, and a new fellow traveler called the Assassin, who struggle for warmth and a place for the night. The main character stops first at a saloon for free soup with a beer, where he meets the Assassin. The Assassin accosts the man seeking a few cents for a room.

James is days away from being married when he learns his fiancé Raquel has been keeping an explosive secret. Humiliated and with his reputation on the line, he sets out to destroy Raquel. The bride-to-be strikes back with a blow so intense it leaves James defenseless, with his life spiraling out of control.

A shocking psychological thriller: Benjamin Walker's lifelong career of testing experimental drugs and medicines, as well as participating in fascinating sleep-related studies, has come to an end. A new and lucrative job opportunity is offered to Ben, working on a project named "Lucy," a machine capable of reading and recording a person's dreams in intimate detail. All is finally going well for Ben ... until strange dreams of a town named Drapery Falls begin to plague him, and memories once hidden begin to reveal themselves. The doctors and staff onboard team Lucy are not who Ben thinks they are, and the organization will stop at nothing to keep Ben's emerging memories buried for good. Ben is put on a collision course that will bring him to the brink of total insanity, and perhaps even death. At the heart of it all, Ben's worst enemy is his own mind, and he must confront his past in order to save his future. The twist and turns in The Experiment of Dreams will keep you guessing, down to the very last line.

A group of people are sent invitations to participate in a paid product survey. But once they arrive and get settled in, they come to find out that they have been tricked by the wording of the invitation and forced to stay against their will. The doors are locked and they start to try and get out to no avail. A sheet of paper with the agreement they all signed is shoved under the locked door. It now highlights the fine print that they agreed to follow through to completion. And the “product “ they are giving their opinions on are the products of political opinions.

In “Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc,” a millennial English professor facing mounting personal crises puts her energies into TikTok, but her newfound viral fame could wreck her already unstable life. In “Patriot’s Day,” a man trying to leave his marriage for the woman he loves finds himself caught up in larger currents of anti-Asian violence. In other stories, an array of loners and artists—a young poet haunted by the ghost of Oscar Wilde, a queer beer brewer, a boy with wings—struggle for connection and fulfillment in a world battered by the pandemic and reactionary politics.

I'm a simple dragon. Give me knowledge, give me research, give me rings for my hoard, and give me athletic men who want to get sweaty between the sheets . . . or anywhere else. Those things make me happy. Other things . . . well, who cares about those? Turns out, I should have cared. Or at least paid attention. Because I somehow signed up for a scientific study run by a shy, nerdy sorcerer with the body of a god. And the study just happens to be about my favorite form of exercise.

Professor von Baumgarten, an expert about mesmerism and spirits, is convinced that the spirit of hypnotized people can leave the body, travel around, and come back at will. But there is one problem: the spirit can't be seen and no evidence can be given... This is the first fiction dealing with spirits, 30 years before his active involvement in the spiritualism cause.

Brilliant geneticist Newton McEwen, the only human in a family of werewolves, has devoted his life to researching the scientific key to shifter magic. Now, he's being blackmailed, and his life's work is threatened if he can't produce results. Alpha werewolf Colin Kimball is a newly-minted pack leader with a mountain of responsibilities, but when his lifelong best friend tells him he needs help, Colin drops everything to run to his aid. But Newt's not just looking for a brawny bodyguard to watch his back - he needs help with an experiment, one he can't carry out alone.

Ama­teur ghost-hunter Perry Palomino has bat­tled ghosts, fought off skin­walk­ers, and skirted the fine line between life and death. But can she sur­vive bunk­ing down in Seat­tle for a week with her partner (and man she secretly loves) Dex and his perfect girl­friend, Jennifer? And can she do so while being tor­mented by a mali­cious spirit from Dex's increas­ingly shady past? With love and life in the bal­ance, Perry must dis­cover the truth among the lies or risk los­ing every­thing she's ever cared about.

Wenn das Schicksal einen grausamen Plan für dich hat. Ist Spastik heilbar? Ben ist seit seiner Geburt Spastiker und wird immer wieder mit dieser Frage konfrontiert. Das Schicksal hält eine grauenhafte Antwort für ihn bereit. Ben hat einen schweren Autounfall, bei dem seine Beine völlig zerstört werden. Er liegt im Koma, und die Ärzte sind sich nicht sicher, ob er wieder erwacht und wenn ja, wie wird der Heilungsprozess mit seiner Krankheit harmonieren? In Amerika in scheint es Hoffnung zu geben. Ein Hirnforscher ist dabei, Elektroden zu entwickeln, die dem Patienten helfen sollen.

Professor von Baumgarten wants to prove his theory that the sprits of hypnotized people can see one another. His student, Fritz von Hartmann, participates in the experiment. A switch of souls and bodies takes place....