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Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the "Push Buttons," a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country’s deepest bomb shelter. Four thousand feet underground, Level 7 has been built to withstand the most devastating attack and to be self-sufficient for five hundred years. Selected according to a psychological profile that assures their willingness to destroy all life on Earth, those who are sent down may never return. Originally published in 1959, and with over 400,000 copies sold, this powerful dystopian novel remains a horrific vision of where the nuclear arms race may lead, and is an affirmation of human life and love. Level 7 merits comparison to Huxley’s A Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984 and should be considered a must-read by all science fiction fans.
This book studies the treatment of science and technology from ancient myths to current works, demonstrating the importance of science to human civilization as evidenced in literature. Works studied include the Bible, Greek mythology, tales from the Middle Ages (including those about the Golem and Dr. Faustus), Gulliver's Travels, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and works by Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, and Aldous Huxley, among others.
Annotation Aims at a coherent constructive definition of liberty in the face of conflicting claims of freedom by individuals and societies.
A major new study of the ancient roots of nationalism and its enduring power in the modern world.
The history of mankind is fraught with clashes in the quest for liberty—in the name of often contradictory ideals of freedom. Roshwald explores the diverse understandings of the term liberty and its spectrum of application, in order to achieve a coherent and consistent definition of the concept in respect to both the individual and society. The issue of liberty is examined not only from the traditional angle of political philosophy but also from a philosophical-anthropological perspective. After analyzing examples of specific approaches to freedom, and describing a theoretically and practically viable definition of liberty, the book suggests the possibility and ways of attaining the ideal....
The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives. Prof. Seed, Liverpool University. Discusses such Cold War classics as On the Beach, plus the recent fiction of nuclear terrorism.
This book includes translations of eight of the most interesting and developed narratives found in the Zohar, the central medieval Jewish mystical text. Wineman’s artful translation, together with commentaries and notes, reveals the richness of the Zohar.
This text focuses on a selection of case-studies drawn from events in the Habsburg, Romanov and Ottoman empires, as well as the nation-states that arose from their break-up during, and in the aftermath of World War I.
Rabbi Freundel in 31 essays summarizes Orthodox Jewish teaching on a variety of issues.