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The Unconscious Civilization

John Ralston Saul

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In this intellectual tour de force, Saul argues that the West now toils unconsciously in the grip of a stifling "corporatist" structure that serves the needs of business managers and technocrats as it promotes the segmentation of society into competing interest groups and ethnic blocks.

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Singularity Sky

Charles Stross

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In the twenty-first century man created the Eschaton, a sentient artificial intelligence. It pushed Earth through the greatest technological evolution ever known, while warning that time travel is forbidden, and transgressors will be eliminated. Distant descendants of this ultra high-tech Earth live in parochial simplicity on the far-flung worlds o...more

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All Editions	Accelerando Charles Stross (81 reviews ) A reader's rating
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All Editions	Schatten der Vergangenheit. V. C. Andrews (69 reviews ) A reader's rating
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All Editions	Blumen der Nacht. Das Erbe von Foxworth Hall. V. C. Andrews (1309 reviews ) A reader's rating
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All Editions	Dornen des Glücks. Das Erbe von Foxworth Hall III. V. C. Andrews Write the first review.(See your review) A reader's rating
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All Editions	Wie Blüten im Wind. Das Erbe von Foxworth Hall 2. (Roman) V. C. Andrews Write the first review.(See your review) A reader's rating
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All Editions	Max Frischs Homo Faber. Max Frisch (1 review ) A reader's rating
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Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China

Sterling Seagrave

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The author of The Soong Dynasty gives us our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the Chinese throne in 1861.

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The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

William Strunk Jr.

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Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in 1957. Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters of basic principles of composition, grammar, word usage and misusage, and writing style.

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