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Nineteen Eighty-Four – ebook
George Orwell
George Orwell’s novel 1984 is one of the best dystopian novels. Winston Smith, male, 39, works for the Ministry of Truth. Smith’s job is to change the facts. If a person objectionable to the party appears, then you need to erase information about him, and rewrite some facts properly. Society must follow the laws of the Party and support its policy. The main character only pretends that his ideals coincide...Data dostępności:
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Animal Farm – ebook
George Orwell
An ironic and at the same time sad story about the desecration of the ideas of socialism by tyrants, is told by the author in the form of a fairy tale, where the animals of an ordinary British farm act as people. Every animal and every bird is a socio-political type. The events in the book will remind the reader of the history of the Soviet state. Here we see events starting from the revolution and...Data dostępności:
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The Undying Fire – ebook
Herbert George Wells
Dedicated to all schoolmasters and schoolmistresses and every teacher in the world, this re-interpretation of the Book of Job is one of the author’s finest discussion novels. Written in 1918, this is the story of Job Huss, the headmaster of a progressive school. It is saturated with the ideas of educational reform and of the teaching of world history as the basis for a common civilization and is one...Data dostępności:
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The Bulpington of Blup – ebook
Herbert George Wells
„The Bulpington of Blup”, a 1932 novel by H. G. Wells, is a character study analyzing the psychological sources of resistance to Wellsian ideology, and was influenced by Wells’s acquaintance with Carl Gustav Jung and his ideas. Theodore Bulpington is a very ordinary man – with a very vivid imagination. Ill at ease with himself, he sees a way to recreate his identity by adding layer upon layer of deception....Data dostępności:
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Babes in the Darkling Wood – ebook
Herbert George Wells
Stella has it all – looks, intelligence and an undergraduate place at Cambridge, not to mention Gemini, her fervent admirer at Oxford. Stella and Gemini, the two babes of the story, come increasingly under the influence of a rather impressive psycho-therapeutist whose groundbreaking theories capture their imaginations. But when tragedy strikes they are soon to learn that intellectualism brings cold...Data dostępności:
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Images Between Series and Stream – ebook
Opracowanie zbiorowe
The direct impulse for the undertaking was the experience of scientific work and exchange during the COVID-19 pandemic as a first-hand touch of the “poetics of disappearance” (p. 16). It is, needless to say, an experience with which the writer of these words deeply sympathizes, as most of the people nowadays probably do. Therefore, the book can claim a wide appeal, resulting not only from...Data dostępności:
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The Planetary Series – ebook
Stanley G. Weinbaum
If you’re going to launch a series dedicated to the very best science fiction and fantasy writers of the century, it makes sense to start with Stanley G. Weinbaum. „The Planetary Series” includes ten stories set on worlds of Earth’s solar system following several centuries of human exploration and settlement. It features a host of fascinating alien creatures, including birdlike Martians (features in...Data dostępności:
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Radykałowie polistopadowi i nowoczesna galaktyka pojęć (1832-1888) – ebook
Piotr Kuligowski
Z pozoru wszystko było takie jak zwykle - rozrzucone książki, fragmenty nieukończonego rękopisu, spotkanie, do którego nie doszło, kolejna głośna kłótnia w Hotelu Taranne. A potem kolejne zadrukowane szpalty czasopism, w których autorzy wyrażali wzajemne pretensje i ubolewali nad utraconą jednością niedawnych towarzyszy broni. Wstrząsy docierały jednak do tej wspólnoty także z zewnątrz. To doniesienia...Data dostępności:
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Living and Thinking in the Postdigital World. Theories, Experiences, Explorations – ebook
Szymon Wróbel Krzysztof Skonieczny
Living and Thinking in the Postdigital World is the result of a series of conferences organized at the Collegium Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw, as a part of the project “Technology and Socialization”. Its main aim is to interrogate the different ways in which technology - especially digital technology - shapes today’s social and political landscape in a theoretical and practical...Data dostępności:
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Algorytmiczny lider – ebook
Mike Walsh
Największym zagrożeniem, przed którym stoimy, nie są zastępujące nas roboty, ale nasza niechęć do odkrywania siebie na nowo Żyjemy w epoce cudów: autonomiczne samochody, urządzenia, które przewidują nasze potrzeby, i roboty zdolne do wszystkiego - od zaawansowanej produkcji po skomplikowane operacje medyczne. Automatyzacja, algorytmy i sztuczna inteligencja zmienią każdy aspekt codziennego życia....Data dostępności:
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