Climbing Free
Title | Climbing Free PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Hill |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2003-04-29 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780393324334 |
Hill describes her famous climb and meditates on how she harnesses the strength and courage to push herself to such extremes.
Free Will
Title | Free Will PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Harris |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2012-03-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1451683405 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, "brilliant and witty" (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and the implications that it is an illusion. A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.
The Giver
Title | The Giver PDF eBook |
Author | Lois Lowry |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 054434068X |
The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.
Fahrenheit 451
Title | Fahrenheit 451 PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Bradbury |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2003-09-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0743247221 |
Set in the future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.
Nineteen eighty-four
Title | Nineteen eighty-four PDF eBook |
Author | George Orwell |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2022-11-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
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This is a dystopian social science fiction novel and morality tale. The novel is set in the year 1984, a fictional future in which most of the world has been destroyed by unending war, constant government monitoring, historical revisionism, and propaganda. The totalitarian superstate Oceania, ruled by the Party and known as Airstrip One, now includes Great Britain as a province. The Party uses the Thought Police to repress individuality and critical thought. Big Brother, the tyrannical ruler of Oceania, enjoys a strong personality cult that was created by the party's overzealous brainwashing methods. Winston Smith, the main character, is a hard-working and skilled member of the Ministry of Truth's Outer Party who secretly despises the Party and harbors rebellious fantasies.
Of Mice and Men
Title | Of Mice and Men PDF eBook |
Author | John Steinbeck |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2018-11 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 0359199143 |
Of Mice and Men es una novela escrita por el autor John Steinbeck. Publicado en 1937, cuenta la historia de George Milton y Lennie Small, dos trabajadores desplazados del rancho migratorio, que se mudan de un lugar a otro en California en busca de nuevas oportunidades de trabajo durante la Gran Depresión en los Estados Unidos.
How Music Got Free
Title | How Music Got Free PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Witt |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Computer file sharing |
ISBN | 0525426612 |
"Journalist Stephen Witt traces the secret history of digital music piracy, from the German audio engineers who invented the mp3, to a North Carolina compact-disc manufacturing plant where factory worker Dell Glover leaked nearly two thousand albums over the course of a decade, to the high-rises of midtown Manhattan where music executive Doug Morris cornered the global market on rap, and, finally, into the darkest recesses of the Internet."--