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The last man
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ISBN: 0191921750 1283222884 9786613222886 0191610720 9780191610721 9781283222884 6613222887 0192838652 9780192838650 Year: 1998 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, 'The Last Man' is Mary Shelley's most important novel after 'Frankenstein'. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem the doomed characters.


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The encyclopedia of apocalypticism
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Year: 1998 Publisher: New York The Continuum Publishing Company

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Visions of the end : apocalyptic traditions in the Middle Ages
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Year: 1998 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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Arguing the apocalypse
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ISBN: 0195352963 0585215650 9780585215655 1280470631 9781280470639 0195080459 0195121252 0197738249 9780195352962 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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Proposing an explanation for the appeal of 'millennialism' by using examples of apocalyptic argument, this text identifies the recurring patterns, showing how and why the Christian apocalypse has been used to support various political stances.

The origins of apocalypticism in Judaism and Christianity
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ISBN: 0826410715 0826410871 Year: 1998 Volume: volume 1 Publisher: New York The Continuum Publishing Company

Straszliwe widzenie Piotra Pegowskiego
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ISSN: 02396661 ISBN: 8322917031 9788322917039 Year: 1998 Volume: 1992 Publisher: Wroclaw Wydawnictwo uniwersytetu wroclawskiego

Les Amis de l'Oeuvre de la Vérité : jansénisme, miracles et fin du monde au XIXe siècle
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ISBN: 2729705988 9782729705985 Year: 1998 Publisher: Lyon : Presses universitaires de Lyon,

The end of the world
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ISBN: 9786610193615 1280193611 1134668546 0203007727 9781134668540 0415184479 9780415184472 0415140439 9780203007723 9781134668496 9781134668533 9780415140430 1134668538 1876340592 Year: 1998 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Are we in imminent danger of extinction? Yes, we probably are, argues John Leslie in his chilling account of the dangers facing the human race as we approach the second millenium. The End of the World is a sobering assessment of the many disasters that scientists have predicted and speculated on as leading to apocalypse. In the first comprehensive survey, potential catastrophes - ranging from deadly diseases to high-energy physics experiments - are explored to help us understand the risks. One of the greatest threats facing humankind, however, is the insurmountable fact that we are a relatively young species, a risk which is at the heart of the 'Doomsday Argument'. This argument, if correct, makes the dangers we face more serious than we could have ever imagined. This more than anything makes the arrogance and ignorance of politicians, and indeed philosophers, so disturbing as they continue to ignore the manifest dangers facing future generations.

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