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When the Sleeper Wakes – ebook
Herbert George Wells
This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Graham’s money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world...Data dostępności:
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The Sleeper Awakes – ebook
Herbert George Wells
This is a short novel about a nineteen century Englishman who falls in a deep sleep only to awake over two hundred years later. The World has changed beyond recognition, and „The Sleeper” finds himself in a remarkable predicament – he has become the owner of the entire planet. However, his awakening profoundly shakes this state of affairs, and he suddenly finds himself at the very center of revolutionary...Data dostępności:
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Our Mutual Friend – ebook
Charles Dickens
The tongues of London high society gossips begin to wag when John Harmon --a young man whose inheritance depended on his marrying a woman he had never met-- is found dead in the River Thames. The fortune passes into the hands of the working-class Boffins, who take into their new home both Bella Wilfer (Harmon’s would-be bride), and a mysterious secretary known as Rokesmith. Meanwhile, Lizzie Hexam,...Data dostępności:
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Market economy in Poland. A history – ebook
Tadeusz Włudyka
In countries with a tradition of more than one hundred years of a free market economy, both public opinion and the economic policy of subsequent governments focus on pragmatic continuity. Changes or corrections are reduced to the necessary minimum. Further, any such change in economic policy is mainly the result of democratic elections and not that of unusual events of far-reaching, unpredictable consequences,...Data dostępności:
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Anatomia pęknięcia – ebook
Michał Protasiuk
Pierwsza w Polsce książka o naszej przyszłości po izolacji. Anatomia pęknięcia Michała Protasiuka jest jak literacka odsłona brytyjskiego serialu Black Mirror . Zanurzamy się w rzeczywistość zdominowaną przez nowe technologie. Podzielony internet, rządzące nami algorytmy i bańki filtrujące – to tematy, wokół których Protasiuk buduje fabułę trzymającą w napięciu jak znakomity thriller. Ta literatura,...Data dostępności:
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