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  1984

  George Orwell

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  A world where every human right has been violated and every notion of freedom and individuality is abolished. A world where Big Brother monitors everything through advanced technology devices. A world where the war against an invisible enemy never ends, thoughts go underground and any deviation from the dictates of the regime is punished relentlessly until it is "corrected". A world where those in power have the power to alter the past and deny the self-existence of reality, a world where language and its words change to keep up with the newA verified dystopian vision in the form of a novel, 1984, one of those few works that have accurately defined their century, continues to warn us more than seventy years after its publication that totalitarianism, with all its mass of illusions, knows no measure or limit, nor does it belong definitively to the past.The book was published just seven months before the author's death from tuberculosis in January 1950. Apart from the futuristic environment described (and which was twice adapted for the cinema, in 1956 and 1984, without great success on both occasions, despite Sir Richard Burton's participation in the latter), apart from its apt predictions about mass surveillance, the nature of authoritarian regimes and the levelling out of any notion of difference, what is even more striking are the neologisms that remain handy to this day: Terms such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "SexCrime" and the famous "Cold War" - which he himself coined a few years ago - are not only used daily, but are so apt that one wonders how a human mind could have conceived them a full seven decades ago.

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  Ιστορίαι (Histories) Βιβλίον 6...

  Thucydides

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  THUCYDIDES (ΘΟΥΚΥΔΊΔΗΣ) (c. 460 BC - c. 395 BC)Η Ιστορία του Θουκυδίδη εξιστορεί τα πρώτα 20 χρόνια του πολέμου μεταξύ της Αθήνας και της Σπάρτης, που κράτησε από το 431 μέχρι το 404 π.Χ. και είναι γνωστός ως Πελοποννησιακός Πόλεμος. Είναι έργο ζωής ενός καλλιεργημένου, ευσυνείδητου και δραστήριου ανθρώπου, που προσφέρει μια διεισδυτική ματιά στα γεγονότα της εποχής του και την ανθρώπινη φύση.Το αρχαίο κείμενο διαβασμένο με σύγχρονη νεοελληνική προφορά. Βιβλίο 6 από τα 8.Thucydides' Histories is the history of the first 20 years of the war between Athens and Sparta, which lasted from 431 until 404 B.C., also known as the Peloponnesian War. It is the life's work of a very sophisticated, efficient and active man which gives us a deep insight to the occurences of his time and human nature.Ancient text read with contemporary Greek pronunciation. Book 6 of 8. (Summary by olorou)

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  The Odyssey (Book 6)

  Homer

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  Nausicaa, daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians, is asleep when Athena comes to her to suggest that she go down to the river the next morning, with her attendants. So the next morning Nausicaa persuades her parents to lend her a wagon to take clothes down to the river for washing.The party goes down to the washing pool. Nausicaa is about to fold and put away the clothing when the ship-wrecked Odysseus, who is asleep nearby, wakes up. He wonders where he is.Grabbing an olive branch to hide his modesty, he walks out, caked in salt from the sea and looking terrible. The attendants run away at sight of him, but Nausicaa stands her ground. Odysseus thinks that she might be a goddess, perhaps Artemis. He then tells her that he has been at sea for 20 days, harassed by the god Poseidon, and only came on shore the previous day. He asks Nausicaa for some clothes and if she can tell him how he can get to town.Nausicaa says fate is in Zeus’ hands, but that since Odysseus has reached her country, and she is the daughter of the king, she won't let him go without clothes. She tells her attendants not to be afraid, and to wash the stranger in the river. They give him clothes and an oil flask. He asks them to go away so he can bathe. Odysseus,washed and dressed, looks like a god. Nausicaa says she would like someone like him to be her husband. She tells her attendants to give him food and drink.Then Nausicaa packs up the wagon and tells Odysseus to follow behind, but that, to prevent scandal,he must stop at a grove that is sacred to Athena. He is to wait there until she gets back to the palace. Only then should he come out. He should then enter the city, find the palace, and look for Nausicaa's mother because, if Nausicaa's mother takes to him, all will be well and he will be helped to go on his way home.They set off, and reach the sacred grove that evening.(Summary by hefyd)

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  The Science of getting Rich

  Wattles D. Wallace

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  "Everything you need to know to fulfill your every creative desire is in this book!Get rid of your guilt about happiness, clearly define your goals, and realize them by harnessing the infallible energy laws of the Science of Abundance.Apply it today!"

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  Η επιτυχία είναι παιχνίδι του...

  Βαλεντίνα Κόρδη

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  «Η επιτυχία είναι παιχνίδι του μυαλού: Πώς να πετυχαίνεις τους επαγγελματικούς και εταιρικούς σου στόχους αλλάζοντας τον δικό σου τρόπο σκέψης και συμπεριφοράς αλλά και της ομάδας σου», είναι ένα βιβλίο για σένα που αντιλαμβάνεσαι ότι, για να κατακτήσεις οτιδήποτε στον επαγγελματικό τομέα και την καριέρα σου και να ζεις μια ευτυχισμένη και επιτυχημένη επαγγελματική ζωή, θα πρέπει να ξεκινήσεις πρώτα από τον τρόπο της σκέψης σου και να αναζητήσεις εκεί την παρακίνηση που θα σε φτάσει στην κορυφή, αλλά και να ανακαλύψεις τα νοητικά εμπόδια που ο ίδιος βάζεις στον εαυτό σου και σαμποτάρεις την επιτυχία σου. 
  Το βιβλίο αυτό είναι για σένα που επιθυμείς να: 
  ·     Αποκτήσεις υψηλή αυτοπεποίθηση ως επαγγελματίας. 
  ·     Να έχεις ένα ξεκάθαρο όραμα για το τι θέλεις στην επαγγελματική σου ζωή. 
  ·     Να ξέρεις πώς θα παρακινήσεις ανά πάσα στιγμή τον εαυτό σου, ώστε να έχεις υψηλή απόδοση και παραγωγικότητα. 
  ·     Να κάνεις τις καλύτερες δυνατές επιλογές που θα σε οδηγούν στην επιτυχία. 
  ·     Να αποκτήσεις εξαιρετικές ηγετικές ικανότητες ομάδας, ακόμη κι αν είσαι νέος σε αυτόν τον ρόλο. 
  ·     Να επικοινωνείς αποδοτικά με τους άλλους στο εργασιακό περιβάλλον, και να χαίρεις την εκτίμηση και τον θαυμασμό τους. 
  ·     Να δημιουργήσεις ένα χαρούμενο εργασιακό περιβάλλον, που θα «δουλεύει» για σένα και τους συνεργάτες σου και, τελικά,... 
  ·     Να κάνεις την επιτυχία αναπόφευκτη.

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  Histories Book 2

  Thucydides

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  Thucydides' Histories is the history of the first 20 years of the war between Athens and Sparta, which lasted from 431 until 404 B.C., also known as the Peloponnesian War. It is the life's work of a very sophisticated, efficient and active man which gives us a deep insight to the occurences of his time and human nature.Ancient text read with contemporary Greek pronunciation. Book 2 of 8. (Summary by olorou)

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