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IRB
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Nothing is more characteristic of the totalitarian movements in general and of the fame of their leaders in particular than the startling swiftness with which they are forgotten and the ease with which they can be replaced. #2 It is a serious mistake to forget that the totalitarian regimes, while they are in power, command and rest upon mass support. This support is...
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A "sharply satirical" novel about an oppressive religious dictatorship and one man's discovery of an underground resistance ( Library Journal ). 2015 Winner of the Le Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française A tribute to George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984 and a cry of protest against totalitarianism of all kinds, Boualem Sansal's 2084 tells the story of a near future in which religious extremists have established a caliphate that forbids...
4) 1984
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English
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the...
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RosettaBooks / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This classic novel of a perfectly engineered society is " one of the most prophetic dystopian works of the twentieth century" ( The Wall Street Journal ). Half a millennium from now, in the World State, the watchword is that every one belongs to every one else. No matter what class of human you are bred to be--from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide the manual labor--you are a part of the efficient, well-oiled whole. You are nourished,...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The first volume of Arendt's celebrated three-part study of the philosophical origins of the totalitarian mind. This volume focuses on the rise of antisemitism in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Index.
7) We
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Series
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"This classic Russian dystopian novel inspired George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and many other science fiction writers, and now this reprint of the original 1924 translation of We is available at Dover. Set in a future under a unified totalitarian state, in a society ruled by conformity and humans are identified by their assigned number, spaceship engineer D-503 must face his beliefs about the One Party head on after a chance encounter with the beautiful...
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Publisher
Echo Point Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Tells us how Nazism happened, in microcosm, in a single German town that was neither typical nor exceptional in admitting and then yielding to tyranny." -- The New York Times In this classic work of twentieth-century history, William Sheridan Allen demonstrates how dictatorship subtly surmounted democracy in Germany and how the Nazi seizure of power encroached from below. Relying upon legal records and interviews with primary sources, Allen dissects...
9) Pulse Point
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Publisher
Great Plains Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For Kaia, setting foot outside can be deadly. Climate change has made Earth too dangerous for people to live anywhere but inside the City. Run on the energy created by its Citizens and sustainable in every way, the City uses microchips, called pulse points, to control the energy its inhabitants use.
When Kaia's pulse point malfunctions, she experiences freedom from the strict City rules for the first time in her life. With unlimited energy, she doesn't...
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Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"American democracy is in danger. How do we protect it from authoritarian reactionary Christianity? On January 6, 2021, a group of Americans stormed the Capitol to prevent the certification of their political opponent's election in the name of Jesus Christ and his representative on earth, Donald Trump. How could this have happened? David P. Gushee tackles the question in this timely work of Christian political ethics. Gushee calls us to preserve democratic...
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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This "well-researched, clear [and] convincing" historical study examines the ideology and politics of Germanization during the WWII occupation of Poland (Nicholas Stargardt, author of The German War ). Following the brutal invasion and occupation of Poland, the Nazis moved swiftly to realize one of their key ideological aims: the expansion of German living space. This involved deporting Jews, bringing in German settlers, and establishing an evaluation...
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English
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Of course, everything [D'Souza] says here is accurate ... But it's not going to sit well with people on the American left who, of course, are portraying themselves as the exact opposite of all of this. --RUSH LIMBAUGH The explosive new book from Dinesh D'Souza, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Hillary's America, America, and Obama's America. What is "the big lie" of the Democratic Party? That conservatives--and President Donald Trump in...
Author
Publisher
Baraka Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Corriere Della Sera
Surgically, but with wit, Francesco Filippi demolishes each and every myth that has taken root about Mussolini and fascism in an uplifting handbook for political and intellectual self-defense. No stones are left unturned, including the colonial devastation of Libya and Ethiopia.
Legend would have it that Mussolini put roofs over Italians' heads, developed the economy, had trains running on time, stood up for justice and against...
14) The prince
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Treatise on political power, statecraft, and the qualities of the ideal ruler.
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Publisher
Hauraki Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This book records strains and stresses, doubts and uncertainties such as were never known, on such a scale, since men first trod the surface of the earth. The author of REMEMBER THESE THINGS, Paul Harvey, literally "grew up" with radio and matured in the atmosphere of television. He has a regular following that is numbered by millions of people. History is the record of events which fashion the lives of men and the destinies of nations. In a very...
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Series
Publisher
Muriwai Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
First published in 1949, this is an account of communist subversion in America as disclosed by investigations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-48, written by the Committee's chief investigator, Robert E. Stripling.
Author
Publisher
Hauraki Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1956, a U.S. lawyer-economist, Louis O. Kelso, created the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) to enable the employees of a closely held newspaper chain to buy out its retiring owners. Two years later, Kelso and his co-author, the philosopher Mortimer J. Adler, explained the macro-economic theory on which the ESOP is based in this best-selling book, The Capitalist Manifesto. When you read this book, you must be prepared for a shock particularly...
18) A Hidden World
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Publisher
Burtyrki Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A Hidden World, first published in 1963, recounts the nine years spent by Hungarian Raphael Rupert in the prison camps of Soviet Russia -- the Gulag. At the time of his arrest in 1947, Rupert was working from the British Embassy in Budapest. His trial, based on a presumed confession of acting as a spy, ended in his sentence to Camp 10 for 25 years of 'forced labor.' A Hidden World describes the daily life and endless brutalities endured in the camps...
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