2040 A Fable

Author : Bruce Piasecki
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781667823461
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2040: a Fable written by Bruce Piasecki and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Thaddeus Rutkowski's five page introduction to 2040: According to one defination, a fable is a story that conveys a moral. In this book, there are numerous lessons about what is valuable (friends, family, and the freedom to work as one wishes). This ability to work as one dreams is well dramatized in the final parts of this book. There are also warnings about what can devalue our lives (a reliance on exclusive technological communications, a bowing to the ever-watchful State). As with all good fables, these lessons apply to all of us. As with most speculative fiction, Piasecki is not writing about some strange future worlds; he is offering ideas, through metaphor and storylines, taht apply directly to our present world. This remarkable projection to 2040 is absolutely a stunningly sustained technique to help us see through today. The book entertains you in 10 chapters, totally 224 pages, with 22 woodcut illustrations of the characters as rendered by a world famous artists of the recent past.

Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book List of Books Forming the Reference Library in the Reading Room of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Piasecki
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1957588160
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wealth and Climate Competitiveness written by Bruce Piasecki and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his twenty-first book, Wealth and Climate Competitiveness: The New Narrative on Business and Society, Bruce Piasecki argues that a set of five recurring prejudices, from 1900 to 2020, have held up real progress on climate action."--Amazon.com.

Author : Bruce Piasecki
Publisher : Easton Studio Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1632261286
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing More with One Life written by Bruce Piasecki and published by Easton Studio Press LLC. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Doing More with a Life, best-selling author Piasecki welcomes the reader into his home, revealing the heart-breaking early death of his father, and his deep respect and love for the women in his life, especially his mother, who devoted her life to her children, both foster and biological. He explores the life-shaping moments in his personal history and imagines what is to come next in a series of well-wrought vignettes. Piasecki’s upbringing was laced with poverty and trauma. He began reading at an early age, seeking out the wisdom and relevance from the “magical clan of writers” who helped him strengthen his writing muscle and feed into his creative hunger. Bruce’s journey to becoming a writer is spiritual and practical, as he discovers and uncovers what is truly valuable in a life. As well as being a writer, Piasecki is also an environmentalist, a speaker on climate and society, and AHC Group founder. He has also founded the family-endowed Creative Force Foundation. Doing More with a Life can be read as biography, or inventive memoir, or even as magical realism. Piasecki leaves that choice up to his reader. Readers and followers of Piasecki’s expansive career in environmental and community issues will be deeply moved by his tales of loss and his determination to make himself—and his world—into something profoundly better.

Author : British museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book List of Books Forming the Reference in the Reading Room of the British Museum written by British museum and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Darrell B. Lockhart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313061556
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin American Science Fiction Writers written by Darrell B. Lockhart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many readers are unaware of the vast universe of Latin American science fiction, which has its roots in the 18th century and has flourished to the present day. Because science fiction is part of Latin American popular culture, it reflects cultural and social concerns and comments on contemporary society. While there is a growing body of criticism on Latin American science fiction, most studies treat only a single author or work. This reference offers a broad overview of Latin American science fiction. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 70 Latin American science fiction writers. While some of these are canonical figures, others have been largely neglected. Since much of science fiction has been written by women, many women writers are profiled. Each entry is prepared by an expert contributor and includes a short biography, a discussion of the writer's works, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a general bibliography of anthologies and criticism.

Author : Thomas Morrison
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595331572
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Year 2040 written by Thomas Morrison and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2040 A.D. America has gone the way of the Roman Empire. A new kind of democracy, the golfocracy, governs the former Americans. A new culture flowers along with new words-PuraThought, footballers, sexballers. Our hero, Charles Cue, a young American correspondent back in 2005, survives the years to the changeover. He writes for the golfocracy's first chief of state, President Duffer. He supports many of the ideas of Duffer, a woman, but is troubled by her plan to kill some "terrorists" in Canada who seek to "bring back America." Cue learns that the leader of the terrorists is his missing son. The author of this book feels only disgust for the sexballers and their motto Amour Is a Sport. Yet he can't help but wonder if the picture of himself (below) shows a certain developing hypocrisy early on.

Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8I/5 ( download)

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Download or read book List of Books Forming the Reference Library in the Reading Room of the British Museum written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.9B/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-05-01T21:20:30Z with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canterbury Tales is a collection of twenty-four stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. The tales are presented as a storytelling contest by a group of pilgrims on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Each pilgrim tells a story to pass the time, and their tales range from bawdy and humorous to serious and moralistic. The stories provide valuable insights into medieval English society as they explore social class, religion, and morality. The pilgrims represent a cross-section of medieval English society: they include a knight, a prioress, a miller, a cook, a merchant, a monk, a nun, a pardoner, a friar, and a host, among others. Religion and morals play an important part of these stories, as the characters are often judged according to their actions and adherence to moral principles. Chaucer also contributed significantly to the development of the English language by introducing new vocabulary and expressions, and by helping to establish English as a literary language. Before the Tales, most literary works were written in Latin or French, languages which were considered more prestigious than English. But by writing the widely-read and admired Tales in Middle English, Chaucer helped establish English as a legitimate literary language. He drew on a wide range of sources for his lexicon, including Latin, French, and Italian, as well as regional dialects and slang. In doing so he created new words and phrases by combining existing words in new ways. All told, the Canterbury Tales paved the way for future writers to write serious literary works in English, and contributed to the language’s development into a language of literature. This edition of The Canterbury Tales is based on an edition edited by David Laing Purves, which preserves the original Middle English language and provides historical context for editorial decisions. By maintaining the language of the original text, Purves allows readers to experience the work as it was intended to be read by Chaucer’s contemporaries, providing insight into the language and culture of the time. Other editions may differ significantly in their presentation of the language; since the Tales were transcribed, re-transcribed, printed, and re-printed over hundreds of years and across many changes in the language, there are many different ways of presenting the uniqueness of Chaucer’s English. This edition includes extensive notes on the language, historical context, and literary sources, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the cultural and historical context in which the work was written. Scholars have used Purves’ edition as a basis for further study and analysis of Chaucer’s work, making it an important resource for anyone interested in the study of medieval literature. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : Albert Ebstein
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 232208509X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The true story of Gabriel Michael Santorum written by Albert Ebstein and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one had ever been so far in alternative history and even changed our own History into a parallel or rewritten History which would comme and crush the first, the True one, in order to take its place. For what reasons? By what means? This book, which will remain a fiction as long as its last prediction is not completed, clearly explains. If you are an atheist, you will be glad to learn that the religions of the Book are the result of a huge manipulation of future, whose aims have served a desperate cause thanks to a providential technical innovation. This sacrilegious book takes place in a dimension which has been neglected for too long (the time) and deciphers an unimaginable truth. On its way, it demythologizes the flying objects from the past (long before aircraft) by identifying them, not as extraterrestrial vehicles, but as aircraft come from the Future of the Earth itself. It is the end of an immense taboo, which opens the way to a future permanently interacting with a past that we believed unique so far. This book is a major progress in the dimension of time, which links Man to a Future... he has already lived!