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1) 1984
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Orwell's classic novel of one man's nightmare odyssey through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but individual thought and memory.
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Fahrenheit 451: la temperatura a la que el papel se enciende y arde. Guy Montag es un bombero y el trabajo de un bombero es quemar libros, que están prohibidos porque son causa de discordia y sufrimiento. El Sabueso Mecánico del Departamento de Incendios, armado con una letal inyección hipodérmica, escoltado por helicópteros, está preparado para rastrear a los disidentes que aún conservan y leen libros. Como 1984, de George Orwell, como Un...
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In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear ... This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical...
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"Winner of a 2008 Lannan Notable Book Award, Lannan Foundation" Sheldon S. Wolin (1922-2015) was professor emeritus of politics at Princeton University. His books include Politics and Vision and Tocqueville between Two Worlds (both Princeton).
Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliché. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has...
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Continuum trilogy volume 1
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"One thousand years after a cataclysmic event leaves humanity on the brink of extinction, the survivors take refuge in continuums designed to sustain the human race until repopulation of Earth becomes possible. Against this backdrop, a group of young friends in the underwater Thirteenth Continuum dream about life outside their totalitarian existence, an idea that has been outlawed for centuries. When a shocking discovery turns the dream into a reality,...
6) 1984
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1984 se desarrolla en Londres: su protagonista, Winston Smith, decide rebelarse ante un gobierno totalitario que controla cada uno de los movimientos de sus ciudadanos y castiga incluso a aquellos que delinquen con el pensamiento. Consciente de las terribles consecuencias que puede acarrear la disidencia, Winston se une a la ambigua Hermandad por mediación del líder O'Brien. Sin embargo, nuestro protagonista va comprendiendo que ni la Hermandad...
7) Amnesty
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Amberlough dossier trilogy volume 3
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The revolution has come and gone, with Amberlough City striving to rebuild itself from the ashes. The Ospies have been ousted and the very face of the nation has been changed in the process. Now, a rising politician is determined to bring Amberlough's traitors to justice, including double agent Cyril DePaul. Everyone believes Cyril deserves to suffer for his crimes--except an old lover and an estranged sister. Soon, they become entangled in a web...
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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 particular-are fascists. Nazis, even. In a typical comment, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow says the Trump era is reminiscent of "what it was like when Hitler first became chancellor."
But in fact, this audacious lie is a complete...
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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...
10) 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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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Ofrece una visión amplia y profunda de lo que significa este término en la actualidad, en un entorno político local y global extremadamente convulso y en constante cambio. No es un libro que critique el populismo, más bien pone en la mesa lo que es y la urgencia que siente la población en general de un cambio ante los escenarios de corrupción que vemos constantemente no solo en México sino en el mundo en general. Comenta que los líderes populistas...
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A fines del siglo XX se produjo, a la derecha del escenario político, la emergencia de partidos extremistas o radicales, en ruptura con las tradiciones nazis o fascistas, cuyo objetivo es la conquista del poder por la vía electoral o democrática. Estos movimientos permiten pensar las mutaciones de la extrema derecha y su adaptación a los tiempos presentes.
Este libro define y describe las diferentes familias de este sector del espectro ideológico,...
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