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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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: Edgerton F., Motilal Banarsidass 1985
Katalogové číslo: F4564

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Man from a far country

Spisovatel: Craig Mary, William Morrow and company 1979
Katalogové číslo: K906

An informal portrait of Pope John Paul II. Contents: A week that made history, Underground, Father Wojtyla, After the council, Synods... v angličtine, brožovaná, 190 strán