The diamond age

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Spisovateľ: Stephenson Neal
Vydavateľ: Penguin books
Rok vydania: 1995
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Katalogové číslo: O3718

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Cudzojazyčná / Anglická

Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neo-Victorians. He's made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer Commissioned by an eccentric duke for his grandchild, stolen for Hackworth's own daughter, the Primer’s purpose is to educate and raise a girl capable of thinking for herself. It performs its function superbly. .. v angličtine, brožovaná, 500 strán

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Spisovatel: Coyle Daniel, CollinsWillow 2005
Katalogové číslo: G3484

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The road to nab end

Spisovatel: Woodruff William, Abacus 2002
Katalogové číslo: L5080

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Men...

Spisovatel: Hodson Phillip, Ariel Books 1984
Katalogové číslo: L7823

The Male Chauvinist Empire is crumbling - not just in the face of FEminist oppisition but in the face od economic realities. In our electronic age companies do not need men so much as minds and they are fast realisinf that brains are not a male preserve. Men need work but the work may not need them... v angličtine, brožovaná, 142 strán