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1) 1984
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The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip One. Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon current alignments, all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia....
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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 woman who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.
3) Animal farm
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Everyman's library volume 150
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English
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Animal farm is about a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master.
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Shadow children volume 6
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English
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In a society that allows families to have only two children, third child Matthias joins the Population Police to infiltrate their system.
5) The prince
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Drawing upon his own experiences of political office in the turbulent Florentine republic, Machiavelli wrote what would become his celebrated treatise on statecraft. Includes a chronology and map.
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Bulgakov Mikhail volume no. 359
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English
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Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs and...
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[2003]
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English
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Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
9) The gift
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After escaping imprisonment by the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood, who possess magical powers, establish themselves as leaders of the Resistance, a hidden community of teenagers like themselves, hunted by the state and determined to defy its ban on the arts, magic, and all other forms of creativity.
10) Truancy
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Truancy trilogy volume 1
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2008.
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English
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In the City, where an iron-fisted Mayor's goal is perfect control through education, fifteen-year-old Tack is torn between a growing sympathy for the Truancy, an underground movement determined to bring down the system at any cost, and the desire to avenge a death caused by a Truant.
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2016.
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"A twisted tale of unintended consequences unfolds! History abounds with examples of government officials making decisions, well-intentioned or otherwise, that harm others. Unfortunately, these unintended consequences are never anticipated, and rarely considered once they occur. As the Tuttle twins find in their latest adventure, central planning can ruin people's lives. Nobel prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek's famous book The Road to Serfdom comes...
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[2004]
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Set in a London of the future, Brave New World depicts a world where genetically designed people live drug induced lives of contented bliss as long as they don't question the established social system. Also includes Brave new world revisited: twelve essays in which Huxley compes the modern-day world to the world envisioned in his Brave new world.
13) The fire
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2011.
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Whit and Wisty Allgood have led the resistance against a totalitarian regime that has banned all forms of creativity and executed their parents, but even the growing strength of the siblings' magic has not been able to stop the evil dictator, and they must somehow prepare for an imminent showdown.
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Jing dian wen xue xin yi volume 02
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2012.
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中文(繁體)
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Traditional Chinese edition of 1984, the George Orwell classic. This brand new edition is the second in the series of "New Translation of Classic Literature"; the first being "The Great Gatsby". It is a collaboration between Yuanliu Publisher and the prestigious National Taiwan Normal University's Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation.
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[2011?]
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Español
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It is the year 2033 in Mexico City, now called Villaparaiso. After a bloody revolution, the military regime restored civil order, all religion and protests are now banned, and corporations control society to ensure their own prosperity. Pablo is a young member of the elite class being groomed into military power. He plays life on the edge, believes the state propaganda, and lives for the decadence of it all until he meets Miguel, an underground priest...
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[2015]
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"For more than twenty years, the Homeland has been immersed in a brutal, unwinnable war. Young men are drafted and sent to fight in a faraway jungle. Those who come back are scarred in body and mind. Lance, two weeks shy of turning eighteen, has watched his older brothers leave and his mother fall apart when they fail to return. He's never imagined a different future for himself--until he meets an idealistic young woman named Lorrie and impulsively...
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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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Democracy is struggling in America, by now this statement is almost cliche. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"?
Wolin...
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