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Utopia Antiqua

Author : Rhiannon Evans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113448786X
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Utopia Antiqua written by Rhiannon Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia Antiqua is a fresh look at narratives of the Golden Age and decline in ancient Roman literature of the late Republic and imperial period. Through the lens of utopian theory, Rhiannon Evans looks at the ways that Roman authors, such as Virgil, Ovid and Tacitus, use and reinvent Greek myths of the ages, considering them in their historical and artistic context. This book explores the meanings of the ‘Iron Age’ and dystopia for Roman authors, as well as the reasons they give for this decline, and the possibilities for a renewed Age of Gold. Using case studies, it considers the cultural effects of importing luxury goods and the way that it gives rise to a rhetoric of Roman decline. It also looks at the idealisation of farmers, soldiers and even primitive barbarians as parallels to the Golden Race and role models for now-extravagant Romans.

Utopia Antiqua

Author : Rhiannon Evans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134487878
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Utopia Antiqua written by Rhiannon Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evans explores the tropes of the utopian and dystopian in ancient Roman texts. She addresses the ways in which concepts of the idealized and degenerate functioned as metaphor and symbol in Roman discourses. Utopia and its inverse are vital markers of cultural yearning and desire.

The Islamic Utopia

Author : Andrew Hammond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849647380
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Islamic Utopia written by Andrew Hammond and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly informed inside account of the prospects for democracy in Saudi Arabia which challenges the West's alliance with the Saudi royal family.

Space Science

Author : Nick S. Maravell
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781600210051
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Space Science written by Nick S. Maravell and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geology of the terrestrial planets with implications to astrobiology and mission design /Dirk Schulze-Makuch [und weitere] --Solar dynamics and solar-terrestrial influences /Katya Georgieva --Thedynamics of the plasmasphere /Viviane Pierrard --Flute and balloning modes in the inner magnetosphere of the earth : stability and influence of the ionospheric conductivity /O. K. Cheremnykh, A.S. Parnowski --Paleoshorelines and the evolution of the lithosphere of Mars /Javier Ruiz [und weitere] --Thermal properties and temperature variations in Martian soil analogues /F. Gori, S. Corasaniti --Dealing with potentially hazardous asteroids /Eric W. Elst --Effect of electromagnetic radiation on dynamics of cosmic dust particles /J. Klac̆ka, M. Kocifaj --Magnetic reconnection in the earth's magnetotail : reconstruction method and data analysis /T. Penz [und weitere] --Research on aerodynamics of large bolides /V. P. Stulov --Space weather /Juhani Huovelin.

Black Utopia

Author : Alex Zamalin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231547250
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Black Utopia written by Alex Zamalin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers offer powerful visions of ways of being that are built on radical concepts of justice and freedom. They imagine a new black citizen who would inhabit a world that soars above all existing notions of the possible. In Black Utopia, Alex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of social transformation and their counterutopian counterparts. Considering figures associated with racial separatism, postracialism, anticolonialism, Pan-Africanism, and Afrofuturism, he argues that the black utopian tradition continues to challenge American political thought and culture. Black Utopia spans black nationalist visions of an ideal Africa, the fiction of W. E. B. Du Bois, and Sun Ra’s cosmic mythology of alien abduction. Zamalin casts Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler as political theorists and reflects on the antiutopian challenges of George S. Schuyler and Richard Wright. Their thought proves that utopianism, rather than being politically immature or dangerous, can invigorate political imagination. Both an inspiring intellectual history and a critique of present power relations, this book suggests that, with democracy under siege across the globe, the black utopian tradition may be our best hope for combating injustice.

Utopias and Utopians

Author : Richard C.S. Trahair
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113594766X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Utopias and Utopians written by Richard C.S. Trahair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopian ventures are worth close attention, to help us understand why some succeed and others fail, for they offer hope for an improved life on earth. Utopias and Utopians is a comprehensive guide to utopian communities and their founders. Some works look at literary utopias or political utopias, etc., and others examine the utopias of only one country: this work examines utopias from antiquity to the present and surveys utopian efforts around the world. Of more than 600 alphabetically arranged entries roughly half are descriptions of utopian ventures; the other half are biographies of those who were involved. Entries are followed by a list of sources and a general bibliography concludes the volume.

Unsettling Utopia

Author : Jessica Namakkal
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231552297
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Unsettling Utopia written by Jessica Namakkal and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there remained five scattered territories governed by the French imperial state. It was not until 1962 that France fully relinquished control. Once decolonization took hold across the subcontinent, Western-led ashrams and utopian communities remained in and around the former French territory of Pondicherry—most notably the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and the Auroville experimental township, which continue to thrive and draw tourists today. Unsettling Utopia presents a new account of the history of twentieth-century French India to show how colonial projects persisted beyond formal decolonization. Through the experience of the French territories, Jessica Namakkal recasts the relationships among colonization, settlement, postcolonial sovereignty, utopianism, and liberation, considering questions of borders, exile, violence, and citizenship from the margins. She demonstrates how state-sponsored decolonization—the bureaucratic process of transferring governance from an imperial state to a postcolonial state—rarely aligned with local desires. Namakkal examines the colonial histories of the Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville, arguing that their continued success shows how decolonization paradoxically opened new spaces of settlement, perpetuating imperial power. Challenging conventional markers of the boundaries of the colonial era as well as nationalist narratives, Unsettling Utopia sheds new light on the legacies of colonialism and offers bold thinking on what decolonization might yet mean.

The Utopia MEGAPACK ®

Author : Sir Francis Bacon
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 147940425X
Total Pages : 3691 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book The Utopia MEGAPACK ® written by Sir Francis Bacon and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 3691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia. A community or society possessing highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities. It may be a dream, but it's a dream that has inspired writers for thousands of years. Plato's "Republic" may be the very first utopia presented to a mass audience, but Thomas More coined the term with his 1516 book Utopia (included here), which describes a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. The term (and its antonym, dystopia) quickly entered the English language. And here are 19 other works, famous and not, featuring utopias and dystopias...works by Samuel Butler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna Bowman Dodd, William Morris, Sir Francis Bacon, and many others. Included are: EREWHON, by Samuel Butler MOVING THE MOUNTAIN, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman HERLAND, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman EQUALITY, by Edward Bellamy CAESAR’S COLUMN, by Ignatius Donnelly THE REPUBLIC OF THE FUTURE, by Anna Bowman Dodd A CRYSTAL AGE, by W. H. Hudson A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA, by W. D. Howells FREELAND: A SOCIAL ANTICIPATION, by Dr. Theodor Hertzka MIZORA: A PROPHECY, by Mary E. Bradley Lane SOLARIS FARM, by Milan C. Edson LOOKING BACKWARD, by Edward Bellamy SOME PICTURES OF A SOCIALIST FUTURE, by Eugene Richter UTOPIA, by Thomas More THE COMMONWEALTH OF OCEANA, by James Harrington THE NEW ATLANTIS, by Sir Francis Bacon THE BLAZING WORLD, by Margaret Cavendish CHRISTIANOPOLIS, by Johannes Valentinus Andreae THE CITY OF THE SUN, by Tommaso Campanella If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 150+ entries in the MEGAPACKTM ebook series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more!

The Arab Winter

Author : Noah Feldman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227934
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Arab Winter written by Noah Feldman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The Arab Winter, Noah Feldman argues that the Arab Spring was nevertheless not an unmitigated failure, much less an inevitable one. Rather, it was a noble, tragic series of events in which, for the first time in recent Middle Eastern history, Arabic-speaking peoples took free, collective political action as they sought to achieve self-determination.

Saudi Arabia

Author : Paul Aarts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1849046697
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Saudi Arabia written by Paul Aarts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saudi royal family has survived the events of the Arab Spring intact and unscathed. Any major upheavals were ostensibly averted with the help of oil revenues, while the Kingdom's influential clerics conveniently declared all forms of protest to be against Islam. Saudi dollars bent events to the Kingdom's will in the Arab world-particularly in Syria, Yemen and Bahrain, but also in Egypt and Lebanon, Saudi cash has had a profound impact. Does this mean that all is well in Saudi Arabia itself, which has an extremely youthful population ruled by a gerontocracy? Problems endemic in Egypt, Tunisia and Syria-youth unemployment, corruption and repression-are also evident in the Kingdom and while young Saudis may not yet be taking to the streets, on Twitter and Facebook their discontent is manifest. Saudi Arabia remains the dominant player in the Gulf, and the fall of the House of Saud would have explosive repercussions on the GCC while the knock-on effect worldwide would be immeasurable. Saudi Arabia is the only oil exporter capable of acting as a 'swing producer', a fact of which this book reminds us. Aarts and Roelants have drawn a compelling picture of a Middle East power which, while not presently endangered, may soon deviate from the trajectory established by the House of Saud.

Mars

Author : Hugh H. Kieffer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816512577
Total Pages : 1532 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Mars written by Hugh H. Kieffer and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The planet Mars has been a subject of wonder for millennia, as attested by its place in mythology, by later speculation about its canals, and by the scientific and public excitement over the Viking mission. Although the scientific literature about the planet is voluminous, no comprehensive treatment of the results of modern spacecraft exploration has yet been made available. This volume fills that gap by providing a summary of what is presently known about Mars and identifying many puzzles such as polar cap variance, occurrence of dust storms, and the possible location of water. The introductory chapter cites questions, controversies, and milestones in the study of Mars, and also includes an annotated book list, basic data about the planet, and a guide to Martian seasons. A chapter on telescopic observation credits the contributions made by many amateurs that have advanced our knowledge of variations observed on Mars. A chapter on spacecraft exploration, by an American and a Russian author who have participated in all Mars missions, includes a revelation of an additional Soviet attempt. Twenty-nine technical articles cover geophysics; bedrock geology; surface; atmosphere; exosphere and magnetic field; and climate history. Two chapters address the search for life on Mars; three concluding chapters consider the Martian satellites. An indispensable reference for scientists, Mars will also serve as a complete sourcebook for serious amateur astronomers.

Utopia, Limited

Author : Anahid Nersessian
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067442512X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Utopia, Limited written by Anahid Nersessian and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is utopia if not a perfect world, impossible to achieve? Anahid Nersessian reveals a basic misunderstanding lurking behind that ideal. In Utopia, Limited she enlists William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, and others to redefine utopianism as a positive investment in limitations. Linking the ecological imperative to live within our means to the aesthetic philosophy of the Romantic period, Nersessian’s theory of utopia promises not an unconditionally perfect world but a better world where we get less than we hoped, but more than we had. For the Romantic writers, the project of utopia and the project of art were identical. Blake believed that without limits, a work of art would be no more than a set of squiggles on a page, or a string of nonsensical letters and sounds. And without boundaries, utopia is merely an extension of the world as we know it, but blighted by a hunger for having it all. Nersessian proposes that we think about utopia as the Romantics thought about aesthetics—as a way to bind and thereby emancipate human political potential within a finite space. Grounded in an intellectual tradition that begins with Immanuel Kant and includes Theodor Adorno and Northrop Frye, Utopia, Limited lays out a program of “adjustment” that applies the lessons of art to the rigors of life on an imperiled planet. It is a sincere response to environmental devastation, offering us a road map through a restricted future.

Realizing Utopia

Author : Antonio Cassese
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199691665
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Realizing Utopia written by Antonio Cassese and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together 47 essays by prominent international lawyers, this book reflects on major challenges facing international law and focuses on potential changes and improvements. Its aim is helping to construct a better architecture of world society. As international law's importance continues to grow, this book analyses where it is heading.

The Last Utopia

Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674256522
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Last Utopia written by Samuel Moyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.

Islams and Modernities

Author : ʻAzīz ʻAẓmah
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860914518
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Islams and Modernities written by ʻAzīz ʻAẓmah and published by Verso. This book was released on 1993 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflict between fundamentalist Islam and the West, highlighted by the fatwah on Salmon Rushdie, appears impossible to resolve. This book examines how much of this antipathy between the two cultures is based on shared romantic notions of unchanging cultural identity. Al-Azmeh shows that, in fact, Islamic fundamentalism represents a break with important aspects of the Muslim tradition and should be seen as a general characteristic of populist nationalism. Utilizing his knowledge of history and the intellectual life of Islamic societies, Al-Azmeh calls for a deeper understanding of the way Islam is used in politics, society and history.

Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East

Author : Marc Owen Jones
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1787388824
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East written by Marc Owen Jones and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are being lied to by people who don’t even exist. Digital deception is the new face of information warfare. Social media has been weaponised by states and commercial entities alike, as bots and trolls proliferate and users are left to navigate an infodemic of fake news and disinformation. In the Persian Gulf and the wider Middle East, where authoritarian regimes continue to innovate and adapt in the face of changing technology, online deception has reached new levels of audacity. From pro-Saudi entities that manipulate the tweets of the US president, to the activities of fake journalists and Western PR companies that whitewash human rights abuses, Marc Owen Jones’ meticulous investigative research uncovers the full gamut of tactics used by Gulf regimes and their allies to deceive domestic and international audiences. In an age of global deception, this book charts the lengths bad actors will go to when seeking to impose their ideology and views on citizens around the world.

The Lithosphere

Author : Jarod E. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lithosphere written by Jarod E. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lithosphere is the outer solid part of the earth, including the crust and uppermost mantle. The lithosphere is about 100 km thick, although its thickness is age dependent (older lithosphere is thicker).The lithosphere below the crust is brittle enough at some locations to produce earthquakes by faulting, such as within a subducted oceanic plate. This book presents leading research in the field from around the globe.