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The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984

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"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.”
--George Packer, The Atlantic 

An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War, and its vast influence throughout world culture at every level, from high to pop.


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 shows (V for Vendetta), rock albums (Diamond Dogs), commercials (Apple), even reality TV (Big Brother). The Ministry of Truth is the first book that fully examines the epochal and cultural event that is 1984 in all its aspects: its roots in the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it; the personal experiences in wartime Great Britain that Orwell drew on as he struggled to finish his masterpiece in his dying days; and the political and cultural phenomena that the novel ignited at once upon publication and that far from subsiding, have only grown over the decades. It explains how fiction history informs fiction and how fiction explains history.
Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone
Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone
Leadership has traditionally resided in one person with many followers. This book presents a new model of mutual leadership, which transforms leadership from one individual's responsibility into a new way of working for everyone.

Creating Leaderful Organizations demonstrates the bottom-line benefits of this model, shows how it is already...

Dictionary of Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy (Comprehensive Dictionary of Physics)
Dictionary of Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy (Comprehensive Dictionary of Physics)
-CHOICE Magazine, January 2002

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Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award for 2002!

The Dictionary of Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy provides a lexicon of terminology covering fields such as astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, relativity, geophysics, meteorology, Newtonian
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Semantic Management of Middleware (Semantic Web and Beyond)
Semantic Management of Middleware (Semantic Web and Beyond)
"Middleware can largely ease the heterogeneity and increasing complexity of the distributed information systems. … Realising this central issue, this book deals with the semantic aspect of middleware … . The uniqueness of the book is the presentation of taxonomies of various ontologies … . The book has addressed the...

Regenerative and Cell Therapy: Clinical Advances (Ernst Schering Foundation Symposium Proceedings)
Regenerative and Cell Therapy: Clinical Advances (Ernst Schering Foundation Symposium Proceedings)

This book gives an updated review of the state of the art in regenerative cell therapy in the fields of cardiology, hematology, pediatrics, neurology, orthopedics and infectious diseases. The book emphasizes clinical advances as proof of concept in cell therapy based on the revolutionizing observation that regeneration can occur...

Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction: 6th International Conference, SBP 2013, Washington, DC, USA, April 2-5, 2013, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction: 6th International Conference, SBP 2013, Washington, DC, USA, April 2-5, 2013, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction, SBP 2013, held in Washington, DC, USA in April 2013. The total of 57 contributions, which consists of papers and posters, included in this volume was carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions....

FreeRADIUS Beginner's Guide
FreeRADIUS Beginner's Guide

This is a fast-paced Beginner's Guide that will take you step by step through the fundamentals of FreeRADIUS and using it in your live projects. It has been structured in a way that will let you get maximum practical information out of it in setting up your own FreeRADIUS server. It will guide you on all the aspects of FreeRADIUS and do...

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