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We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin (often anglicised as Eugene Zamiatin) that was written in 1920–1921. [1] It was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York, with the original Russian text first published in 1952.
As the collapse of Cuba’s electrical system entered its third day Sunday, the devastating and deadly consequences of prolonged power outages are coming into view.
The book is set in 1999 (25 years in the future from 1974) and consists of diary entries and reports of journalist William Weston, who is the first American mainstream media reporter to investigate Ecotopia, a small country that broke away from the United States in 1980 following an economic collapse.
Today I am blessed.” “Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.” “Life offers us tickets to places which we ...
Ayn Rand in 1943. Ayn Rand initially conceived Anthem as a play when she was a teenager living in Soviet Russia. [1] After migrating to the United States, Rand did not plan to write Anthem, but she reconsidered after reading a short story in The Saturday Evening Post set in the future.
A nuclear catastrophe leaves the city of Allendale, California, entirely desolate.However, within one miraculously preserved house, the daily routine continues – automatic systems within the home prepare breakfast, clean the house, make beds, wash dishes, and address the former residents without any knowledge of their current state as burnt silhouettes on one of the walls, similar to Human ...
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist is a non-fiction book by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. It is a collection of three previously unpublished public lectures given by Feynman in 1963. [1] The book was first published in hardcover in 1998, ten years after Feynman's death, by Addison–Wesley.
The first half of the 700-page book is a history of the study of electricity. It is parted into ten periods, starting with early experiments "prior to those of Mr. Hawkesbee", finishing with variable experiments and discoveries made after Franklin's own experiments.