society
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The New Adam – ebook
Stanley G. Weinbaum
Edmund Hall, born a mutant with too many joints in his fingers and a double mind, tries to find a purpose in a society of humans. This superman is no caped crusader fighting for justice though. Rather, he is a dual-brained super-intellect with an IQ so far off the charts that normal human beings appear as Neanderthals next to him. In this story, our evolved human is born into modern society without...Data dostępności:
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Children of Babylon – ebook
Shirman Stoone
This book is a future global bestseller. It is almost certain that it will divide many people on our globe. Accustomed to stereotypes in our world, inhabitants of the blue planet do not notice major threats. People are threatened by unbelievable danger. Silently, the most influential bankers are starting to create the New World Order (NWO). This secret society has one goal: enslave humans globally...Data dostępności:
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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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Looking Backward – ebook
Edward Bellamy
This is a book about a man of 1887, who turned out to be in 2000. It was actually written in 1887, and author Edward Bellamy predicts certain things, such as radio and credit cards. The main character discovered that all social class differences were erased, and there is a utopian society. He wonders how in the twenty-first century all kinds of music are available at the touch of a button. Credit card...Data dostępności:
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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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Laws – ebook
Long understudied, Plato’s „Laws” has been the object of renewed attention in the past decade and is now considered to be his major work of political philosophy besides „The Republic”. In his last dialogue, Plato returns to the project of describing the foundation of a just city and sketches in considerable detail its constitution, laws and other social institutions. In it, Plato describes in fascinating...Data dostępności:
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The Divine Lady – ebook
Elizabeth Louisa Moresby
This is the story of England’s greatest admiral and his beautiful mistress, Lady Hamilton. Introduced to high society as a host and maid figure Emily Hart is wild and rebels against her violent master. Soon she is taken on by a new man, yet he struggles to reconcile his cool nature and expectation of restraint with her irrational outbursts. Emily is educated in the arts and painted by her beloved Romney...Data dostępności:
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A Modern Utopia – ebook
Herbert George Wells
H.G Wells wrote many tales of adventure and exploration, which were fascinating to early twentieth century readers as transportation to faraway lands was so difficult back then. Wells’ „Modern Utopia” was first published in 1905. It set the scene for many modern, scientific utopias and dystopias. The story is set on a planet very like earth. The Utopian Planet differs from earth in that the inhabitants...Data dostępności:
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Dlaczego wiara chrześcijańska wciąż ma sens. Odpowiedź na wyzwania współczesności – ebook
C. Stephen Evans
Niniejsza książka powstała na podstawie wykładów wygłoszonych przez C. Stephena Evansa w ramach cyklu Wiara chrześcijańska w XXI wieku. Odpowiedź na nowy ateizm . Autor odpowiada na krytykę płynącą ze strony nowych ateistów, zwłaszcza na podstawowy zarzut mówiący, że wiara nie ma intelektualnych podstaw. Uzasadnia, że wiara wcale nie wymaga rezygnacji z rozumu, wręcz przeciwnie. Evans jednak nie tyle...Data dostępności:
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