Islanders ; And, The Fisher of Men
Author : Evgeniĭ Ivanovich Zami︠a︡tin
Publisher : Flamingo is
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Science fiction, Russian
ISBN :
Author : Evgeniĭ Ivanovich Zami︠a︡tin
Publisher : Flamingo is
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Science fiction, Russian
ISBN :
Author : Evgeniĭ Ivanovich Zami︠a︡tin
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : James George Frazer
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Ancestor worship
ISBN :
Author : Yevgeny Zamyatin
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9356844836
We is a dystopian novel written by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin. Originally drafted in Russian, the book could be published only abroad. It was translated into English in 1924. Even as the book won a wide readership overseas, the author's satiric depiction led to his banishment under Joseph Stalin's regime in the then USSR. The book's depiction of life under a totalitarian state influenced the other novels of the 20th century. Like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, We describes a future socialist society that has turned out to be not perfect but inhuman. Orwell claimed that Brave New World must be partly derived from We, but Huxley denied this. The novel is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State which assists mass surveillance. Here life is scientifically managed. There is no way of referring to people except by their given numbers. The society is run strictly by reason as the primary justification for the construct of the society. By way of formulae and equations outlined by the One State, the individual's behaviour is based on logic.
Author : Madge AMBROSE
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 11,17 MB
Release : 1924
Category :
ISBN :
Author : James M. Acheson
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1584653930
A case study of the Maine lobster fishery, one of the most successful fisheries in the world.
Author : P. Boomgaard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004254013
Water, in its many guises, has always played a powerful role in shaping Southeast Asian histories, cultures, societies and economies. This volume, the rewritten results of an international workshop, with participants from eight countries, contains thirteen essays, representing a broad range of approaches to the study of Southeast Asia with water as the central theme. As it was exposed to the sea, the region was more accessible to outside political, economic and cultural influences than many landlocked areas. Easy access through sea routes also stimulated trade from an early age. However, the same easy access made Southeast Asia vulnerable to political control by strong outsiders. The sea is, moreover, a source of food, but also of many hazards. At the same time, Southeast Asian societies and cultures are confronted with and permeated by 'water from heaven' in the form of rain, flash floods, irrigation water, water in rivers, brooks and swaps, water-driven power plants, and pumped or piped water, in addition to water as a carrier of sewage and pollution. Finally, the volume deals with the role of water in classification systems, beliefs, myths, illness and healing.
Author : George Alfred Henty
Publisher : London : Blackie
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Scotland
ISBN :
At the turn of the fourteenth century in Scotland, young Archie Forbes becomes involved with both William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in the struggle for Scottish independence from English rule.
Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Saint Helena
ISBN :
Author : Richard S. Mackie
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0774842466
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the North West and Hudson�s Bay companies extended their operations beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. There they encountered a mild and forgiving climate and abundant natural resources and, with the aid of Native traders, branched out into farming, fishing, logging, and mining. Following its merger with the North West Company in 1821, the Hudson�s Bay Company set up its headquarters at Fort Vancouver on the lower Columbia River. From there, the company dominated much of the non-Native economy, sending out goods to markets in Hawaii, Sitka, and San Francisco. Trading Beyond the Mountains looks at the years of exploration between 1793 and 1843 leading to the commercial development of the Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North America. Mackie examines the first stages of economic diversification in this fur trade region and its transformation into a dynamic and distinctive regional economy. He also documents the Hudson�s Bay Company�s employment of Native slaves and labourers in the North West coast region.