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Publication / edition year · 1996
Airframe
Michael Crichton
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Catalog reference: Alfred A. Knopf · 1996 · 351 pages · English
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Source: Open Library · ISBN 9780679446484
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Airframe is a novel by the American writer Michael Crichton, his eleventh under his own name and twenty-first overall, first published in 1996, in hardcover, by Knopf and then in 1997, as a paperback, by Ballantine Books. The plot follows Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice president at the fictional aerospace manufacturer Norton Aircraft, as she investigates an in-flight accident aboard a Norton-manufactured airliner that leaves three passengers dead and 56 injured.
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Publication / edition year · 2012
La ciudad y los perros
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Catalog reference: Real Academia Española · 2012 · 611 pages · Spanish
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Source: Open Library · ISBN 9788420412337
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*"La ciudad y los perros* no es sólo un ataque contra la cureldad ejercida a un grupo de jóvenes alumnos del Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado, sino también una crítica frontal al concepto erróneo de la virilidad, de sus funciones y de las consecuencias de una educación castrense malentendida. Aunada a la brutalidad propia de la vida militar, a lo largo de las páginas de esta extraordinaria novela, la vehemencia y la pasión de la juventud se desbocan hasta llegar a una furia, una rabia y un fantasimo que anulan toda sensibilidad". – Back cover.
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Publication / edition year · 2019
Prosas apátridas
Julio Ramón Ribeyro
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Catalog reference: Seix Barral · 2019 · 148 pages · Spanish
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Source: Open Library · ISBN 9788432235221
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Publication / edition year · 2006
The God delusion
Richard Dawkins
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First published: 2006
Catalog reference: Houghton Mifflin Co. · 2006 · 406 pages · English
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Source: Open Library · ISBN 9780618680009
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Publication Date: January 16, 2008
A preeminent scientist—and the world's most prominent atheist—asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.
With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. _The God Delusion_ makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universe's wonders than any faith could ever muster.
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Publication / edition year · 2014
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Catalog reference: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · Jul 14, 2014 · 1504 pages
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Source: Open Library · ISBN 9780544445789
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Contains:
– Hobbit
– The Fellowship of the Ring
– The Two Towers
– The Return of the King
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Publication / edition year · 1990
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
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Catalog reference: Knopf, Distributed by Random House · 1990 · 399 pages · English
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Source: Open Library · ISBN 0394588169
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Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton. A cautionary tale about genetic engineering, it presents the collapse of an amusement park showcasing genetically re-created dinosaurs to illustrate the mathematical concept of chaos theory and its real-world implications. A sequel titled The Lost World, also written by Crichton, was published in 1995. In 1997, both novels were re-published as a single book titled Michael Crichton's Jurassic World. In 1996 it was awarded the Secondary BILBY Award.
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