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  2. Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

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    ISBN. 978-1-78074-950-1 (hardcover) OCLC. 958121231. Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future is a 2016 book by Swedish writer Johan Norberg (a Senior Fellow of the libertarian Cato Institute ), which promotes globalization, free trade and the notion of progress. In it, Norberg develops his ideas published previously in In Defense of ...

  3. The Pilgrim's Progress - Wikipedia

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    The Pilgrim Progress at Wikisource. The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of theological fiction in English literature and a progenitor of the narrative aspect of Christian media.

  4. Enlightenment Now - Wikipedia

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    Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress is a 2018 book written by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker.It argues that the Enlightenment values of reason, science, and humanism have brought progress, and that health, prosperity, safety, peace, and happiness have tended to rise worldwide.

  5. 'Symbol of Progress': New book depicts the link between the ...

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    The book, “Symbol of Progress,” was made from a collection of old photos, newspaper clippings and prose. The Draper family founded Hopedale in 1842.

  6. Progress and Poverty - Wikipedia

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    1-59605-951-6. OCLC. 3051331. Text. Progress and Poverty at Wikisource. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy is an 1879 book by social theorist and economist Henry George. It is a treatise on the questions of why poverty accompanies economic and ...

  7. Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

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    Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation ...

  8. Political geography of Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

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    Sourcing George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, whose wartime BBC career influenced his creation of Oceania. What is known of the society, politics and economics of Oceania, and its rivals, comes from the in-universe book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein, a literary device Orwell uses to connect the past and present of 1984.

  9. Ridgemont High School (Ohio) - Wikipedia

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    Ridgemont Junior - Senior High School. /  40.53333°N 83.52833°W  / 40.53333; -83.52833. Ridgemont High School is a public high school in Mt. Victory, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Ridgemont Local Schools district. Their nickname is the Golden Gophers, a distinction they share with only two other high schools in The United ...