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Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions...
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IRB
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[2022]
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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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Europa Editions
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[2017]
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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...
5) 1984
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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
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2011.
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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
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[2012]
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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.
8) We
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Dover Publications
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[2021]
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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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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Recognized today as the founder of modern art history and as one of the key thinkers of the nineteenth century, Burckhardt changed not only the way we think about the Renaissance in relation to European and world history, but the value placed on art as a tool for understanding historical developments.
The Civilization of the Renaissance...
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«El Estado dual» es un clásico de la literatura sobre el ordenamiento político y jurídico del Tercer Reich. Escrito bajo el régimen nacionalsocialista y, en expresión del propio Fraenkel, «desde el fondo de su alma», es un producto de la soledad de la emigración interna, del trabajo silencioso, pero activo en lo profesional, lo político y lo intelectual. Aunque el manuscrito se cierra en 1938, es notable la clarividencia de sus planteamientos...
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After an endless slew of best sellers dwelling upon the dastardly deeds of Donald Trump, at last an unvarnished look at the real threat we face as a nation when we complacently ignore evil that has hidden in plain sight for years.
Whether you have sheltered in place to the left or to the right of the commendable gooey center of this "American Life", The Deplorables: America Interrupted will challenge your conception of the events occurring over the...
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Get the Summary of Richard Evans's The Coming of the Third Reich in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Otto von Bismarck's governance, marked by suppression of liberal ideologies and militarization, laid the groundwork for the Third Reich by fostering authoritarianism and nationalism. The ineffective Anti-Socialist Law paradoxically strengthened the Social Democratic Party, making it a significant political force....
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Get the Summary of Michael Nehls's The Indoctrinated Brain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Indoctrinated Brain" by Michael Nehls explores the societal and psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting that the response to the virus and the push for a Great Reset are part of a strategy to erode constitutional freedoms and establish a technocratic regime. Nehls compares current events to dystopian...
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"We are at war, in WWIII for many decades now. We have been systematically targeted on different fronts and locations. Alas, my beloved America has not recognized it yet..." This nonfiction work chronicles the development of world politics in the 21st century. Discover the single driving force behind today's threat of global terrorism. Learn why the 9/11 attack was just one link in a long chain of battles against Western civilization and how Islam...
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Get the Summary of Alex Jones and Kent Heckenlively's The Great Awakening in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Great Awakening" by Alex Jones and Kent Heckenlively examines the potential dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) and the implications of technological advancements on humanity. The authors discuss the risks of AI, referencing an incident where an AI drone attacked its human operator, and Elon Musk's...
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Desde principios del siglo XX y hasta poco antes del estallido de la Gran Guerra en junio de 1914, Rafael Altamira redactó numerosos escritos de temática «obrera», una buena muestra de los cuales, debidamente ordenados y clasificados, recopiló en el libro titulado Cuestiones obreras. En conjunto, los escritos de Altamira recibían la denominación de «cuestiones obreras». Al obrero como tal y como hombre no sólo le importaban cosas relativas...
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¿Por qué no pasan los 70? ¿Cómo se activan hoy esos años traumáticos, marcados por la militancia revolucionaria y la barbarie dictatorial? Cuando vuelven, ¿vuelven como un pasado que puede aportar perspectiva para entender los dilemas de este tiempo, o como un material que resulta banalizado o utilizado en la disputa política y partidaria? ¿Cómo entender las reacciones al fallo de la Corte que abría el camino al 2x1 para procesados por...
18) La tumba vacía
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El fascismo triunfó en España y estuvo 40 años aquí. Franco vivo juntaba un millón de personas en la Plaza de Oriente; y ese mismo millón cuando murió, haciendo colas de horas para verlo. Reunían a esa cantidad de gente porque aquí había un páramo ideológico, porque habían aniquilado a la oposición política; y un páramo intelectual, porque habían aniquilado a los intelectuales y dejaron al pueblo sin voz. Era un franquismo sociológico...
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Die Flugblätter der Weißen Rose Als Fließtext, und zusätzlich mit den Original-Flugblättern Vollständig verlinkt und mit eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis Mit einem Begleitwort des Herausgebers "Nichts ist eines Kulturvolkes unwürdiger, als sich ohne Widerstand von einer verantwortungslosen und dunklen Trieben ergebenen Herrscherclique regieren zu lassen. Ist es nicht so, dass sich jeder ehrliche Deutsche heute seiner Regierung schämt, und wer von...
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Susanne Kerckhoff: Berliner Briefe Für die eBook-Ausgabe neu lektoriert, voll verlinkt, mit eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis und Fußnoten Die ersten fünf Jahre nach dem Ende des Naziregimes erscheinen aus heutiger Sicht wie eine black box. Es war auf deutscher Seite eine Zeit der Scham, des sich Unsichtbarmachens, der kollektiven Verdrängung was zur Folge hatte, dass es damals kaum literarische oder journalistische Zeitschau gab. Im Gegensatz dazu sind...
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