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Science fiction has been called the "literature of ideas", and it often explores the potential consequences of scientific, social, and technological innovations. Besides providing entertainment, it can also criticize present-day society and explore alternatives. Including short stories by Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, E.M. Forster, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Machen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edwin A. Abbott, Jules Verne, and H. G. Wells.

This book contains the fundamental works of Marxism, Anarchism, and Bolshevism.

Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and laws.

This is complete collection of American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Stephen King has called Lovecraft "the 20th century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the enlightenment, romanticism, and Christian humanism.

John Griffith London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form. As may naturally be expected of a form so closely connected with primal emotion, the horror tale is as old as human thought and speech themselves. Horror intends to create an eerie and frightening atmosphere for the listener. 

20 Self-Help Classics Collection: classic books on how to successfully make money and influence relationships. This collection of titles encapsulates the greatest writings of all time on how to grow in wealth and prosperity. 

This book contains the fundamental works of Marxism, Anarchism and Bolshevism: The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; The Conquest of Bread by the Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin; The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin. 

His story of the dog Buck ("The Call of the Wild"), who learns to survive in the bleak Yukon wilderness, is viewed by many as his symbolic autobiography. "White Fang" (1906), which London conceived as a "complete antithesis and companion piece to The Call of the Wild," is the tale of an abused wolf-dog tamed by exposure to civilization.

This collection compiles the works on which the fame of one of the most fascinating writers of the 20th century was built. Francis Scott Fitzgerald became a mouthpiece for ideas and expressed the spiritual moods bubbling amongst the young people during the 1920s.

 The Conquest of Bread has become a classic of political anarchist literature. It was heavily influential on both the Spanish Civil War and the Occupy movement. In the work, Kropotkin goes on to propose a more decentralized economic system based on mutual aid and voluntary cooperation, asserting that the tendencies for this kind of organization already exist, both in evolution and in human society. 

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster and clergyman Edwin Abbott Abbott. The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides.

This collection of titles encapsulates the greatest writings of all time on how to succeed and to grow in power, wealth, and prosperity. Includes: Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Nicoló Machiavelli's The Prince, and Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich.