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"What causes rich countries to lose their way? Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior. But what exactly has gone wrong? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues ... is that our institutions -- the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail -- are degenerating"--Dust cover flap.
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
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Once again, Mad Max stands alone against the barbarians of a post-nuclear age. This time, Max defends the future -- a group of abandoned children -- and enters the gladiatorial maces-and-chainsaws combat inside Thunderdome arena.
43) Gunslinger girl
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In a post-Second Civil War lawless West, sharpshooter Serendipity "Pity" Jones stars in, and lives at, the Theater Vespertine, but there is a dark cost to her freedom that Pity may not be willing to pay.
Serendipity "Pity" Jones inherited two things from her mother: a pair of six shooters and perfect aim. She's been offered a life of fame and fortune at the Theater Vespertine in Cessation, a glittering city where lawlessness is a way of life. The...
44) The gypsy morph
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402 pages ; 24 cm.
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Eighty years into the future, the United States is a no-man's-land: its landscape blighted by chemical warfare, pollution, and plague; its government collapsed; its citizens adrift, desperate, fighting to stay alive. In fortified compounds, survivors hold the line against wandering predators, rogue militias, and hideous mutations spawned from the toxic environment, while against them all stands an enemy neither mortal nor merciful: demons and their...
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378 pages ; 21 cm
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"Defeated in a devastating war with China, America is on the brink of a bloody civil war. Seizing power after a controversial election, the ruling regime has begun cracking down on dissidents fighting the nation's slide toward dictatorship. For Donny Kimoe, chaos is good for business. He's a lawyer who makes his living defending enemies of the state. His newest client, young filmmaker Xelina Rocafuerte, witnessed the murder of an opposition leader...
46) The road
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A holocaust has destroyed the world. Civilization lies in ruins. Nothing grows. The Man and his young son, the Boy, struggle across the devastated, post-apocalyptic landscape, pushing their belongings in a shopping cart, hoping to reach the coast. It is almost impossible to find any food. Life on the road is a deadly game of hide, seek, and devour with bloodthirsty bands of roving, starving, survivalist types, many of whom have fallen into cannibalism....
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 19 cm
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"Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone ... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim -- until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! ... While the Kingdom of Science is busy reviving people,...
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264 pages ; 22 cm
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Raised in isolation in a post-apocalyptic world, Ami Miles escapes to seek her long-lost mother after her grandfather, knowing she is one of the few surviving women capable of child-bearing, arranges her marriage to a stranger.
Ami Miles was raised in isolation at Heavenly Shepherd, her family's trailer-dealership-turned-survival compound. She was lucky to be born into a place of safety after the old world ended and the chaos began. But when her...
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim -- until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! ... The advent of the hot-air balloon introduces maps. And with more allies than ever, Senku and company start a food revolution to create tasty,...
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
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"Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone ... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim -- until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! ... With a machine capable of producing unlimited revival...
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
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"One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim -- until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! ... The Grand Bout Tournament to decide the village chief has begun! Standing in the way of Senku's Kingdom of Science is the powerful warrior Magma,...
52) La carretera
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210 pages ; 24 cm
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America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.
Esta novela "transcurre en la...
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278 pages ; 22 cm
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Twenty years after the start of the war that caused the Collapse, fifteen-year-old Stephen, his father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse America scavenging, but when his grandfather dies and his father decides to risk everything to save the lives of two strangers, Stephen's life is turned upside down.
54) The fall: Vol. 1
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140 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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"After just losing his wife, one father will have to face a world in freefall; shaken to its core by an economic, social, political and health crisis without precedent. Facing seemingly unreal and very unexpected dangers, he will do whatever it takes to protect his loved ones in a country on the brink of collapse. In this internationally acclaimed series, Jared Muralt not only tells the story of one family struggling to survive, but also questions...
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95 pages ; 22 cm.
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Comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces. Concise critical excerpts provide a scholarly overview of each work. The Story Behind the Story details the conditions under which the work was written. Each book includes a biographical sketch of the author, a descriptive list of characters, an extensive summary and analysis, and an annotated bibliography.
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142 pages, 47 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
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"Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone ... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim--until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! ... Kohaku plans to fool the island's ruler in order to...
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
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One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim--until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science! Senku and Dr. Xeno are the Stone World's top two scientists, and now they're teaming up in search of the origin of the petri-beam that zapped all of...
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114 pages, 74 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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"Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim--until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science!... In light of Hyoga's betrayal, Senku and Tsukasa vow to...
59) The forever ship
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Fire sermon trilogy volume 3
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390 pages ; 24 cm.
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Concludes the story of psychic Omega Cass and her powerful Alpha twin, Zach, on a dystopian world struggling for balance between a backward government and its oppressed people centuries after a nuclear apocalypse.
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