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Roshwald Mordecai Roshwald
Dreams and Nightmares [PDF ebook]
Science and Technology in Myth and Fiction

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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.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 227 ● ISBN 9781476620367 ● Herausgeber Sullivan III C.W. Sullivan III & Palumbo Donald E. Palumbo ● Verlag McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers ● Erscheinungsjahr 2014 ● herunterladbar 3 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 5898864 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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