<p> <span>Depicting one man’s transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wells’s „The Invisible Man” is a riveting exploration of science’s power to corrupt. In this tale of psychological terror, a young scientist must live in the personal hell created by his own experiments. Using himself as the subject, the scientist discovers the key to invisibility; yet, he is unable to reverse the results. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but begins to become mentally unstable as a result... Wells had created a gripping masterpiece on the destructive effects the invisibility has on the scientist and the insane and murderous chaos left in his malicious wake. Notable for its sheer invention, suspense, and psychological nuance, „The Invisible Man” continues to enthrall science-fiction fans today as it did the reading public nearly 100 years ago.</span></p>
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Eine verstörende, gleichzeitig poetische Erzählung über Liebe und Terror in einer verfallenden Welt. Künstler / Artist: Bartosz Zaskòrski. A disturbing yet poetic tale of love and terror in a decaying world.
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<p> <span>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 has ever seen, and the trustees have used it to virtually enslave the entire planet. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. This struggle is the main focus of the larger part of the novel. The novel proposes that whatever is done officially for the good of society, individual ambition is unlikely to address the failure of capitalist structures to create a good standard of living for those whose work supports the system.</span></p>
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Heaven's Reach by Brin, David May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less
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"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. This volume contains the following writings: The "Miscellanies" (Stromateis) and "The Tutor" (Paidagogos). The "Miscellanies" comprise seven entire books, of which the first four are earlier than "The Tutor". When he had finished this latter work he returned to the "Miscellanies", which he was never able to finish. The first pages of the work are now missing. What has been known as the eighth book since the time of Eusebius is nothing more than a collection of extracts drawn from pagan philosophers. In the "Miscellanies" Clement disclaims order and plan. He compares the work to a meadow where all kinds of flowers grow at random and, again, to a shady hill or mountain planted with trees of every sort. In fact, it is a loosely related series of remaks, possibly notes of his lectures in the school. It is the fullest of Clement's works. He starts with the importance of philosophy for the pursuit of Christian knowledge. Here he is perhaps defending his own scientific labours from local criticism of conservative brethren. He shows how faith is related to knowledge, and emphasizes the superiority of revelation to philosophy. God's truth is to be found in revelation, another portion of it in philosophy. It is the duty of the Christian to neglect neither. Religious science, drawn from his twofold source, is even an element of perfection, the instructed Christian -- "the true Gnostic" is the perfect Christian. He who has risen to this height is far from the disturbance of passion; he is united to God, and in a mysterious sense is one with Him. Such is the line of thought indicated in the work, which is full of digressions.
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The human imagination is unequal to the reconstruction of the appalling scene of the disaster in the North Atlantic. No picture of the pen or of the painter's brush can adequately represent the magnitude of the calamity that has made the whole world kin. How trivial in such an hour seem the ordinary affairs of civilized mankind--the minor ramifications of politics, the frenetic rivalry of candidates, the haggle of stock speculators. We are suddenly, by an awful visitation, made to see our human transactions in their true perspective, as small as they really are. Man's pride is profoundly humbled: he must confess that the victory this time has gone to the blind, inexorable forces of nature, except in so far as the manifestation of the heroic virtues is concerned. The ship that went to her final resting place two miles below the placid, unconfessing level of the sea represented all that science and art knew how to contribute to the expedition of traffic, to the comfort and enjoyment of voyagers. She had 15 watertight steel compartments supposed to render her unsinkable. She was possessed of submarine signals with micro-phones, to tell the bridge by means of wires when shore or ship or any other object was at hand.There was a collision bulkhead to safeguard the ship against the invasion of water amidships should the bow be torn away. In a word, the boat was as safe and sound as the shipbuilder could make it. It was the pride of the owners and the commander that what has happened could not possibly occur. And yet the Titanic went down, and carried to their doom hundreds of passengers and men who intimately knew the sea and had faced every peril that the navigator meets.
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<div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong>ZOBACZ FILM REKLAMOWY E-BOOKA!</strong><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ciKADm5ug" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ciKADm5ug </a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <p><strong style="text-align: center;">„SKYNET ARMIA CIENI” Caesara Starlinga</strong> to powieść science fiction. <br /><br /> Akcja książki rozgrywa się w schyłkowej fazie wojny toczącej się pomiędzy ludźmi a maszynami tworzącymi zbiorową, cyfrową świadomość określoną mianem SKYNET. Wydarzenia przedstawione w opowieści poznajemy śledząc przygody głównego bohatera Jessego Scotta, który będąc szeregowym żołnierzem bierze udział w złożonej operacji wojskowej, realizując powierzone mu zadanie cząstkowe. Wraz z przeprogramowanym Terminatorem, jako pilotem helikoptera udaje się w bezludne okolice jeziora Normana, aby tam zebrać dane wywiadowcze, jak również ocenić możliwości współdziałania człowieka z tego typu maszyną. Stanowi to początek całej lawiny nieprzewidzianych wydarzeń oraz zaskakujących zwrotów akcji. <br /><br /> Książka jest w założeniu pierwszą częścią trylogii SKYNET nawiązującą do uniwersum Terminatora. Dzieło to stanowi spin off funkcjonujących w popkulturze produkcji filmowych i literackich tworzących wspomniane uniwersum. Nie odnosi się ono jednak bezpośrednio do przedstawionych w nim wydarzeń lub bohaterów, lecz stanowi samodzielne dzieło, luźno powiązane z wymienionymi produkcjami poprzez ramowy element całego uniwersum, jakim jest wojna ludzi ze sztuczną inteligencją.</p>
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<p> <span>Dedicated to all schoolmasters and schoolmistresses and every teacher in the world, this re-interpretation of the Book of Job is one of the author’s finest discussion novels. Written in 1918, this is the story of Job Huss, the headmaster of a progressive school. It is saturated with the ideas of educational reform and of the teaching of world history as the basis for a common civilization and is one of his most ambitious dialogue narratives. Essentially it is a modernized parody of the book of Job, a prose poem which Wells greatly admired, though not particularly religious, as can be seen from his logical Science Fiction writing. In „The Undying Fire”, Wells give us an updated Book of Job, focusing on the tribulations of an actual descendant of the biblical Job. The various characters from the Biblical narrative are all there, in updated form.</span></p>
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As their pasts and presents collide, and tensions run high, Tashi must ask herself, what will it cost to win. Number of discs : 1. JUST £2.95 to 3.45 PER ITEM. Studio : Warner Bros. Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1).
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A vividness of portraiture which puts The Third Violet on a high level—higher, we think, than Mr. Crane's very different Maggie, though perhaps lower than The Little Regiment, which is also very different. In his present book Mr. Crane is more the rival of Mr. Henry James than of Mr. Rudyard Kipling. But he is intensely American, which can hardly be said of Mr. Henry James, and it is possible that if he continues in his present line of writing he may be the author who will introduce the United States to the ordinary English world. We have never come across a book that brought certain sections of American society so perfectly before the reader as does The Third Violet. The picture is an extremely pleasant one, and its truth appeals to the English reader, so that the effect of the book is to draw him nearer to his American cousins. The Third Violet incidentally contains the best dog that we have come across in modern fiction. Mr. Crane's dialogue is excellent, and it is dialogue of a type for which neither The Red Badge of Courage nor his other books had prepared us.
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LORIEN LEGACIES. PITTACUS LORE. Saga Completa - 7 volumi.
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<p> <span>On a deceivingly beautiful island in the South Seas exists the sinister kingdom of Doctor Moreau. Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau’s assistant he is taken to the doctor’s island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...The main plot, a shunned biologist, Dr. Moreau, attempting to create a new species of animals by combining biological elements of the original animal with human and other animal bloods and cells, is handled in both a dramatic, yet accessible sicentific manner. „The Island of Doctor Moreau” portrays the consequences of Science without ethics. In this case it is early twentieth century vivesection.</span></p>
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Author: Paul and Davids, Hollace, Illustrated by Brigman, June; Kesel, ISBN 10: 0760704473. Title: Star Wars: Book Two Item Condition: used item in a very good condition. Star Wars - Book Two. Three stories in one book.
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