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"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 sounded, as he describes it, "like a country song with a happy ending." And yet he was still haunted by a sense that the world--or, more specifically, his country--could be better. He couldn't ignore his conviction that, in fact, the good ol' USA was in the midst of great social, environmental, and political...
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Twelve-year-old artist Zailey lives in a utopian community where residents are forbidden from anything that might reveal their image, but when her grandmother discovers her secret collection of portraits, it triggers a chain of events that enables Zailey to view everything in a new way.
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This debut horror novel by the author of short story collection Monstrous Affections
Situated on the edge of the woods and mountains of northern Idaho, the tiny settlement of Eliada is an industrialist's attempt to create heaven on earth. But its secrets are soon to be unveiled, as Jason Thistledown, the sole survivor of a mysterious plague in Montana, and Andrew Waggoner, a black doctor nearly lynched by the KKK, delve beneath the façade of the...
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"HALCYON is the answer for all Americans who want to escape, but paradise isn't what it seems. A beautiful island in the middle of Lake Ontario--a self-sustaining community made up of people who want to live without fear, crime, or greed. Halcyon is run by Valerie Kemp, aka Mother Moon, benevolent and altruistic on the outside, but hiding an unimaginable darkness inside. She has dedicated her life to the pursuit of Glam Moon, a place of eternal beauty...
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The archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world; lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their health and well-being, fall below 10 percent. Then they retire themselves, embarking on a ferry ride to an island where their failing bodies are renewed, their memories are wiped clean, and they are readied to restart life afresh. Proctor Bennett...
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Thomas Morus: Utopia Für die eBook-Ausgabe neu lektoriert und mit modernisierter Rechtschreibung. Voll verlinkt, mit eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis und einem erklärenden Vorwort.Dieses Buch hat gewaltige Wirkung hinterlassen. Es ist die erste Sozialutopie, und wurde zum Vorläufer eines ganzes Genres. Der Engländer Thomas More (14781535), der es im Alter von 37 Jahre schrieb, schildert darin einen, aus seiner Sicht idealen Staat. Die Utopier kennen kein...
8) Glory season
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Maia, a gene-mixed young woman born on a planet of clones, leaves Stratos Colony to seek a place in the world.
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Rebelión en la granja es la historia de cómo unos animales de establo consiguieron hacer de la Manor Farm, dirigida por el granjero Joe, un paraíso en la tierra y constituir la Animal Farm. En su último discurso el precursor e ideólogo de la rebelión, el cerdo Major, señaló que una granja distinta era posible, una granja donde las relaciones de subordinación fueran historia, donde no existiera la explotación por parte de los hombres y los...
11) K-PAX: a novel
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K-PAX series volume 1
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Psychiatrist Gene Brewer doesn't have a diagnosis for the mysterious new patient who calls himself "prot" (rhymes with goat). But, this strange and likeable man cannot be, as he claims, from the planet K-PAX.
Or, can he? Prot knows facts about space that are confounding the experts. He is soon revealing Dr. Brewer's own deepest pains and most sublime longings. And, his tales of K-PAX have other patients competing to go along with him when he heads...
12) The world inside
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In 2381, the highly regulated life at the giant building known as Urbmon 116 may seem ideal, but some residents are experiencing dangerous dissatisfaction.
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For the decade that followed the end of the cold war, the world was lulled into a sense that a consumerist, globalized, peaceful future beckoned. The beginning of the twenty-first century has rudely disposed of such ideas-most obviously through 9/11and its aftermath. But, just as damaging has been the rise in the West of a belief that a single model of political behavior will become a worldwide norm and that, if necessary, it will be enforced at gunpoint.
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In 2005, J.C. Hallman came across a scientific paper about "Pleistocene Rewilding," a peculiar idea from conservation biology that suggested repopulating bereft ecosystems with endangered "megafauna." The plan sounded utterly utopian, but Hallman liked the idea as much as the scientists did-perhaps because he had grown up on a street called Utopia Road in a master-planned community in Southern California. Pleistocene Rewilding rekindled in him a longstanding...
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Douglas Mao is Russ Family Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860–1960 and Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production (both Princeton).
A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae Lee
Examining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity...
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Eines der einflussreichsten Bücher des 19. Jahrhunderts ist heute-völlig zu Unrecht-beinahe vergessen: Edward Bellamys "Looking Backward, Or: Life in the Year 2000". Dutzende spätere Autoren ließen sich von dem Werk inspirieren und schrieben Fortsetzungsgeschichten und Rezensionen. Auch die heute bekanntesten Werke der Gattung utopischer Romane, Orwells 1984 und Huxleys Brave New World sind von Looking Backward deutlich beeinflusst. Genau wie...
17) Arab Humanist
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ARAB humanist is a story of an Arab woman, LouLou, who rebelled against her family while living in America. LouLou wanted to claim her own independence and womanhood but was crippled by her naivety, poverty, lack of a good social safety net, and other misfortunes. The intention of this story is not to demonize the Arab or the American culture. From the viewpoint of the author, Nohad Nassif, the poor, especially women, in all cultures are treated badly...
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What if women were safe and had full agency over their lives and bodies? What if all spaces were women's spaces? What if men's classically masculine traits like strength, risk-taking, and systematizing were useful, prosocial, and not toxic? What if men took a step back from their conquests and surrendered to the natural authority of women?
Gynarchy is a way of life that encompasses personal, political, and social relationships. It is the radical...
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Communes in America: 1975–2000 is the final volume in Miller's trilogy on the history of American intentional communities. Providing a comprehensive survey of communities during the last quarter of the twentieth century, Miller offers a detailed study of their character, scope, and evolution.
Between 1975 and 2000, the American communal experience evolved dramatically in response to social and environmental challenges that confronted American society...
20) Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Love: How Tricksters Through History Have Changed the World
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Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Lovetells the history of tricksters who challenged the boundaries of doctrine to light the way to a more peaceful and playful society.
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