Utopia. The History of an Idea, Paperback - Gregory Claeys

A worldwide survey on the idea of utopia, from classical mythology to contemporary science fiction.

DescriptionWithin the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Cosimo (University of Salento, Italy) PerrottaNumber of pages: 270Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 155 x...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Shiraz MaherNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 201 x 139 x 20Cover type: Paperback / soft...

A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state env...

From later antiquity to the close of the 18th century, most educated men accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of ...

Reducere. Ever since John Winthrop told his fellow colonists in 1630 that they were about to establish a City upon a Hill, the idea of having a special place...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Tyler StovallIllustration(s): 31 b/w illus.Number of pages: 440Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 24...

Contributor(s): Editor: Gregory ClaeysEditor: Lyman Tower SargentThe Utopia Reader compiles primary texts from a variety of authors and movements i...

Benoit Godin is a Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montreal.

Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and u...

Reducere. EUREKA! Great things happen when science crosses history! Discover the all-true stories of your favorite inventions with this new multicultural STE...

Publisher: New Village PressAuthor(s): Aviva RahmaniIllustration(s): 12 color illustrations, 6 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 336Publication dat...

Shiraz Maher charts the intellectual underpinnings of salafi-jihadism from its origins in the mountains of the Hindu Kush to the jihadist insurgenc...

Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of sa...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare.

Reducere. In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct ...

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spendin...

Reducere. The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democra...

A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuryPublisher: Yale University ...

Reducere. Transhumanism is a recent movement that extols man's right to shape his own evolution, by maximizing the use of scientific technologies, to enhance...

Reducere. How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. ...

Reducere. "In many ways, this is The Phoenix Project for the PowerShell world."Introduced in 2006, Microsoft's PowerShell made an immediate, positive impact ...

A history of the Circe myth.Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Judith YarnallNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 1994Dimensions: 2...

``The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language...a standard work.``--Pacific Affairs Okinawa: The H...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christopher J. LebronStarted in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLiv...

Reducere. Beginning in the 1920s as a lowly crop-dusting operation in Louisiana, Delta Air Lines had, by its fiftieth anniversary, down to become one of the ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and trac...

Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been neglected. This is the first book on the history of lonelines...

Reducere. "Thurston has written the definitive history of Boko Haram. By weaving a complex tapestry of politics and religion, he explains the peculiarity and...

Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been neglected. This is the first book on the history of loneliness to b...

Reducere. Simply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run. A basic idea that proved elusive for hundreds of years an...

Reducere. DescriptionSome have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians li...

Reducere. Since 1935, roller derby has thrilled fans and skaters with its constant action, hard hits, and edgy attitude. However, though its participants' at...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Barbara E. FrankIllustration(s): 391 Illustrations, color; 12 Maps; 8 Tables, black and whiteNumber o...

One day a very special puppy entered my life. I named him Lucas. I quickly discovered that Lucas was not responding to sound. Soon after a diagnost...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Thomas HagerIllustration(s): Black-and-white images throughoutNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139...

Reducere. Rareori, motivul lumii ca vis a capatat in literatura universala o orchestratie atat de intinsa, nuantata si diversa. Adam este visat de el insusi,...

After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, France retained control of five scattered territories until 1962. Unsettling Utopia pre...

Reducere. St. Gregory of Nyssa (335 - 395 AD), the great theologian and bishop Nyssa, turned his considerable skill to finishing the work that his brother St...

Reducere. Considered a classic study of southeastern Indians, Powhatan's Mantle demonstrates how ethnohistory, demography, archaeology, anthropology, and car...