Utopia

Reducere. Xenon Hybrid, the Red Planet's ceremonial head-of-state, has not been seen for many years after withdrawing to an isolated enclave in the far north...

Reducere. What if we had direct control over our daily lives? What if society's defining institutions--those encompassing economics, politics, kinship, cultu...

Reducere. Full Color Edition. Tesla's Words is a creative non-fiction book that utilizes exhaustive research to enrich a classic text with additional informa...

A classic of utopian literature, more urgent than ever: Buckminster Fuller's provocative blueprint for the futureComposed of lectures given by Buck...

Reducere. DescriptionJerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). The...

The extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history--Henry Ford and Thomas Edison--and their attempt to create an electric-powered c...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Professor or Dr. Darko (McGill University, Canada) SuvinNumber of pages: 376Publication date: 2022Di...

Reducere. From cute children's books to fairytale art, the unicorn is alive and well in the world today. During the late Middle Ages, the hunt for the unicor...

Outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a part of the world that has often been overlooked by researchers of both. The bo...

Reducere. The Christian Science Monitor's #1 Best Book of the YearA witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they ...

Publisher: University of Washington PressAuthor(s): Smriti SrinivasIllustration(s): 61 b&w illus, 6 mapsNumber of pages: 224Collection: Global Sout...

'One of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent) turns his unique eye on the dark end of the 1960s in this ent...

This book examines the rise of the early English utopia in the context of emergent capitalism, one that foreshadows the Enlightenment discourse of ...

A political philosophy classic from one of the foremost political thinkers of the twentieth centuryAfter Utopia was Judith Shklar's first book, a h...

An impassioned plea for overcoming capitalism, whose urgency is more timely today than when it was first published fifty years ago.Publisher: Watki...

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

A collection of short interludes, think pieces, and critical essays on landscape, utopia, philosophy, culture, and food, all written in a highly or...

From here to utopia. New directions in political theoryPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Malcolm BullNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimen...

'One of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent) turns his unique eye on the dark end of the 1960s in his enth...

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

Reducere. In this work, Buber expounds upon and defends the Zionist experiment - a federal system of communities on a co-operative basis. He looks to the ana...

Best Translated Book AwardThe first translation of Julio Cort zar's genre-jumping meta-comic/novella, featuring Cort zar himself, Susan Sontag, and...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Thomas MoreTranslator: David WoottonNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 215 x 137...

Examining the massive social changes that reshaped the Middle East over the long nineteenth century, this study of the 'Nahda', a cultural renaissa...

Reducere. Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberli...

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

Reducere. Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is base...

Publisher: DOM PublishersAuthor(s): Jean-Francois LejeuneNumber of pages: 350Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 215 x 232 x 24Cover type: Paperback ...

A fresh approach to the construction of "Anglo-Saxon England" and its depiction in art and writing.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Cather...

Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our ag...

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

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

Reducere. In the tales gathered in An Agent of Utopia: New and Selected Stories you will meet a Utopian assassin, an aging UFO contactee, a haunted Mohawk st...

DescriptionHassan Fathy is Egypt's best-known 20th-century architect. He was also a man of contradictions. He came from a wealthy background and ha...

Reducere. From 1911 to 1917 Craftman Farms was the home of Gustav Stickley, one of the central figures in the American Arts and Crafts Movement. This book un...

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Reducere. DescriptionOneida Utopia is a fresh and holistic treatment of a long-standing social experiment born of revival fervor and communitarian enthusiasm...

Deborah Solomon's definitive biography of Joseph Cornell, one of America's most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists, now reissued twenty y...

A lively historical account of the rise of Ethiopia's student movement by one of those involved, its role in overthrowing the imperial regime, and ...

When David Bramwell's girlfriend left him for someone she described as 'younger, but more mature than you', he decided he had something to learn ab...

Automating technologies threaten to usher in a workless future, but John Danaher argues that this can be a good thing. A world without work may be ...

Reducere. In Search of an Inca examines how people in the Andean region have invoked the Incas to question and rethink colonialism and injustice, from the ti...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Peter Y. PaikNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 17Cover type: Pap...

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Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): David JohnsonIllustration(s): 8 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 232Publication date:...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in ...

Reducere. Displaying an impressive command of complex materials, Seyla Benhabib reconstructs the history of theories from a systematic point of view and exam...

Reducere. A pathbreaking exploration of the fate of utopia in our troubled times, this book shows how the historically intertwined endeavors of utopia and cr...

A study of American love in the twentieth century that unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the ex...

DescriptionA 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work--an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising Utopia a...

Reducere. Qigong--a regimen of body, breath, and mental training exercises--was one of the most widespread cultural and religious movements of late-twentieth...

Transhumanism posits that humanity is on the verge of rapid evolutionary change as a result of emerging technologies and increased global conscious...

Reducere. DescriptionA scientific exploration into humanity's obsession with the afterlife and quest for immortality from the bestselling author and skeptic ...

Thomas More, a 16th century English lawyer, statesman, and philosopher, was one of the most controversial figures of his time. More opposed the Pro...

With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for ...

Late in 1965, Ashaninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had opened a ...

Raymond Williams was an enormously influential figure in late twentieth-century intellectual life as a novelist, playwright and critic, British Sar...

A stirring Marxist-Humanist analysis of recent liberation struggles waged by indigenous communities across Latin American.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Robert SiebertNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 237 x 36Cover type: Har...

From the Black Tuesday to the White House, from Plato to Robert Nozick, from Eugene Debs to Richard Nixon, from Peter Cornelis Plockhoy to the hipp...

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We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "...

A transfixing masterwork that probes an unsolved family mystery and portrays a utopian community striving to create a better world.Illustrations: b...

A transfixing masterwork that probes an unsolved family mystery and portrays a utopian community striving to create a better world.Illustrations: b...

A transfixing masterwork that probes an unsolved family mystery and portrays a utopian community striving to create a better world.Publisher: Simon...

Reducere. El autor parte de una correlaci n muy original entre la espiritualidad y la cultura gerencial, para el enriquecimiento mutuo de ambas. Pero desde e...

Reducere. For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It so...

This work explores challenges and contradictions which have prevented critical curriculum theory establishing itself as an alternative to dominant ...

Volume 5--A Modern Utopia & In the Days of the CometFor those who know anything of the most outstanding British authors of the late 19th and early ...