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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Occasionally, there are books that try to make sense of a key moment in history - and become an indispensable guide to the times we live in. This book is one of them. In The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow collective psychosis to take hold. By analysing our current global situation and identifying the phenomenon of 'mass formation' - a type...
42) We: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In a glass-enclosed city of perfectly straight lines, ruled over by an all-powerful "Benefactor," the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState are regulated by spies and secret police; wear identical clothing; and are distinguished only by a number assigned to them at birth. That is, until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. He can feel things. He can fall in love. And, in doing so, he...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
421 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society's ills--the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single. But four couples are about to discover just how impossible relationships can be when the government is monitoring every aspect of our personal lives--monitoring every word, every minor disagreement ... and will use every tool in its...
44) No. 6: Volume 5
Author
Series
No. 6 volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
188 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Armored vehicles from No. 6 roar through the gates into West Block, massacring the helpless and arresting everyone else. Amid the chaos, Shion and Rat realize this could be their only chance to get into the Correctional Facility and save Safu. But when they make it inside, they find it is worse than anyone imagined.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
vi, 376 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Harper Adams was six years old in 2012 when an act of viral terrorism wiped out one-half of the country's population. Out of the ashes rose a new government, the Confederation of the Willing, dedicated to maintaining order at any cost. The populace is controlled via government-sanctioned sex and drugs, a brutal police force known as the Blue Coats, and a device called the slate, a mandatory implant that monitors every word a person speaks. To utter...
47) No. 6: 4
Author
Series
No. 6 volume 4
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"OUR CHANCES OF SURVIVAL ARE ROUGHLY ZERO PERCENT." Shion accidentally learning that his childhood friend Safu is under arrest -- and all because of him! Not wanting to get Rat involved, Shion sets out alone to save her. But how can he possibly infiltrate No. 6's secure correctional facility and escape with a high-priority prisoner all on his own?
48) V for vendetta
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (294 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
V for vendetta: Set in a future where Germany has won World War II and Britain has become a fascist state, this is the story of a young working-class woman, Evey, who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as 'V.' Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, 'V' ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the...
49) No. 6: Volume 7
Author
Series
No. 6 volume 7
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Safu is a prisoner on the top floor of the Correctional Facility. Shion and Rat manage to slip back in amid the chaos sown by Dogkeeper, but what they find is almost too terrifying to concieve...countless neatlyy organized rows of corpses with their brains remoced! Backed into a cobner, Rat is ready for death, but Shion seizes a weapon, and insists on surviving at any cost!
50) Darkness at noon
Author
Language
English
Description
Fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.
51) Truancy origins
Author
Series
Truancy trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Relates how Truancy, an underground movement determined to bring down the Mayor's goal of control through education, began with the birth of twin boys who grew up to take divergent paths after being adopted by the Mayor.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work, education for his children, and a higher station in society....
53) The chasm
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's been two months since Patch Collins escaped the Board and gone into hiding. When a familiar enemy resurfaces and she learns the fate of a loved one, Patch must make a choice: live a life of relative safety or risk everything to expose the Board's actions to the world.
54) Un mundo feliz
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Con ironía mordiente, el genial autor inglés plasma una sombría metáfora sobre el futuro, muchas de cuyas previsiones se han materializado, acelerada e inquietantemente, en los últimos años. La novela describe un mundo en el que finalmente se han cumplido los peores vaticinios: triunfan los dioses del consumo y la comodidad, y el orbe se organiza en diez zonas en apariencia seguras y estables. Sin embargo, este mundo ha sacrificado valores humanos...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
153, 172 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Among the hidden: In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm. Then Luke discovers the existence of another shadow child and his world is turned upside down.
Among the imposters: Luke has the chance to come out of hiding at last. Under a fake identity, he is enrolled in the Hendricks School, where he discovers that there...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Some years ago, the author, Jay Nordlinger, was in Albania. He was there to give a talk under State Department auspices. Albania was about ten years beyond the collapse of Communism. For almost 40 years, the country had been ruled by one of the most brutal dictators in history: Enver Hoxha. Nordlinger wondered whether this dictator had had children. He had indeed: three of them. And they were still in Albania, with their 3 million fellow citizens....
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xix, 355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes--Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5--that gain potency with every year. Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a bestseller ("Ministry of Alternative Facts," anyone?). Its influence has morphed endlessly into novels (The Handmaid's Tale), films (Brazil), television...
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