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Homage to Catalonia Homage to Catalonia George Orwell [Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Span… OL1168169W
Flatland Flatland Sajad Hussain,Trains of Trains of Thought Publishing,Edward Abbott,Joel Dueck,Edwin Abbott Abbott,Monty Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in thinking about multiple dimensions. It is also seen as a satirical depiction of Victorian society and its… OL118388W
Letter to my daughter Letter to my daughter Maya Angelou For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around … OL14951921W
My ideal bookshelf My ideal bookshelf Jane Mount,Thessaly La Force "The books that we choose to keep-let alone read-can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In THE IDEAL BOOKSHELF, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to the… OL16672185W
What If? What If? Randall Munroe Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fa… OL17095301W
2001 2001 Arthur C. Clarke A novel that proposes an idea about how the human race might have begun and where it might be headed...given a little help from out there. A colaboration of ideas with director Stanley Kubrick in the… OL17365W
Fifty Minerals That Changed The Course Of History Fifty Minerals That Changed The Course Of History Eric Chaline "Using the word 'minerals' in its broadest sense, Fifty Minerals that Changed the Course of History features the metals, alloys, rocks, and organic minerals and gemstones that humans have used as the… OL17512946W
Color Purple / Meridian / Third Life of Grange Copeland Color Purple / Meridian / Third Life of Grange Copeland Alice Walker Contains - [The Color Purple](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1815836W/Color_Purple) - Meridian - Third Life of Grange Copeland OL18025207W
Distraction Distraction Bruce Sterling It's November 2044, an election year, and the state of the Union is a farce. The government is broke, the cities are privately owned, and the military is shaking down citizens in the streets. Washing… OL1888051W
The Singularity Is Near The Singularity Is Near Ray Kurzweil For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that… OL1958850W
Earth abides Earth abides George Rippey Stewart The story of rebuilding civilization after a plague nearly wipes out the human race. OL2321336W
America the Principled America the Principled Rosabeth Moss Kanter Sometimes it seems that Americans are divided in countless ways--red or blue; black, brown, or white; rich or poor; male or female. What happened to America as the land of freedom and openness? In Am… OL2625214W
A Canticle for Leibowitz A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller Jr. Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred books". The monks preserve for centuries what little science there is, and … OL2626638W
Longitude Longitude Dava Sobel The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive … OL265465W
Burning Chrome Burning Chrome William Gibson Burning Chrome collects Gibson's early short fiction from the late 70's and early 80's. Contents: Preface / by Bruce Sterling -- Johnny Mnemonic -- The Gernsback continuum -- Fragments of a ho… OL27254W
Understanding Comics Understanding Comics Scott McCloud Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich his… OL276032W
The Varieties of Scientific Experience The Varieties of Scientific Experience Carl Sagan On the 10th anniversary of his death, brilliant astrophysisist and Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan's prescient exploration of the relationship between religion and science and his personal search fo… OL2950941W
Star Maker Star Maker Olaf Stapledon After reading "Last and First Men", I approached Olaf's next masterpiece, "Star Maker" ( first published in 1937), with some disbelief as to how on earth he could possibly better the span, pathos and… OL3290739W
Biomimicry Biomimicry Janine M. Benyus This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature’s best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems. If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is … OL3357280W
Erotic fantasies Erotic fantasies Eberhard Kronhausen,Phyllis Kronhausen Study of and extracts from Erotica in various subject areas: Homosexuality, Transsexualism, Bondage, Sadomasochism, Incest, Bizarre Fantasies etc. OL3419968W
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