Download or read book The Fall of Utopia Classic Reprint written by Charles J. Bayne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fall of Utopia Satisfied with his evident sincerity, the dai proceeded to admit him successively, with all the accustomed oaths and securities, into each of the nine degrees, and he was finally confirmed a convert of Ismailis. Soon, however, Abdul Hassan wearied of his new religion. Surfeited curiosity became disgust. Deluded and imposed upon by such hollow mockery, he determined to reveal the mysteries he had sworn to keep. A simple renunciation was not sufficient for his resentful mind. He would expose the deception, in spite of ban or menace, and give Ismailis a fatal sting. The consequences were such as might naturally be expected. Never before had such treachery and sacrilege been known. The Prophet and the Silent One would be no longer venerable, and proselytes' gold would cease to flow into their common coffers. Actuated, therefore, by various incentives, the infuriated schismatics pursued Abdul Hassan with restless zeal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Bread and Hyacinths written by Lionel Rolfe and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating account of Los Angeles’ buried past tells the story of Job Harriman, a former minister turned union organizer and attorney, who in 1911 was narrowly defeated as mayor of Los Angeles running on the Socialist ticket. Behind his defeat lay an unthinkably brutal, stop-at-nothing campaign headed by Los Angeles’ de facto political boss, General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the Los Angeles Times. Harriman’s progressive mayoral campaign represented an epic battle for the future of Los Angeles against the bitterly reactionary forces of Otis and his backers. The authors amply demonstrate that Otis was the victor in this contest, and how that victory explains much about why Los Angeles is the way it is today. "Bread and Hyacinths" follows Harriman through his childhood as an Indiana farm boy, through his formative years as a union organizer to his emergence as a key figure in the pivotal era of American socialism. It eloquently describes his lifelong optimism and determination in the face of poor health, financial woes, and personal and political troubles. Viewed in perspective against the backdrop of a city - and a nation - torn by labor strife and political corruption, Harriman emerges as a crucial, if ultimately marginalized, figure in American political history. Viewed in the light of today's uncertain economy and political unrest, this period of California history can be seen as a disturbing omen of things to come. "Bread and Hyacinths" has been optioned as a motion picture by director Paul Haggis ("Crash", "Billion Dollar Baby", "Flags of Our Fathers"). This brief, useful book illuminates an obscure chapter in the history of Los Angeles and America’s socialist movement...The book also serves as a corrective to the Times’s distorted history of the Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony, a socialist community founded by Harriman in Southern Calfornia’s Antelope Valley. – Los Angeles Times This slender but potent book draws us into an early and unfamiliar era of Southern California, when Los Angeles seemed more like Charcoal Alley than Lotusland...[A] fine example of what regional publishing can and ought to be: vigorous, knowing, committed and unafraid, even if a bit eccentric. – Los Angeles Daily News
Download or read book A Modern Utopia Classic Reprint written by G. Wells and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Modern Utopia So much by way of portraiture is necessary to present the explorers of the Modern Utopia, which will unfold itself as a background to these two enquiring figures. The image of a cinematograph entertainment is the one to grasp. There will be an e ect of these two people going to and fro in front of the circle of a rather defective lantern, which sometimes jams and sometimes gets out of focus, but which does occasionally succeed in display ing on a screen a momentary moving picture of Utopian conditions. Occasionally the picture goes out altogether, the Voice argues and argues, and the footlights return, and then you find yourself listening again to the rather too plump little man at 'his table laboriously enunciating propositions, upon whom the curtain rises now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Utopia written by Sir Thomas More and published by Primedia E-launch LLC. This book was released on 1969 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition includes: -Several illustrations from the original work -Extended and up to date introduction -A discussion of the structure of the book First published in 1516, Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveller Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly five centuries after it was written, and it remains a foundational text in philosophy and political theory. Precminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More's rhetoric in this new translation. Professor Miller includes a helpful introduction that outlines some of the important problems and issues that Utopia raises, and also provides informative commentary to assist the reader throughout this challenging and rewarding exploration of the meaning of political community.
Download or read book Utopia Achieved written by Herman Hine Brinsmade and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Utopia Achieved: A Novel of the Future A little apart from the others on the upper deck stood a sturdy white-whiskered man apparently closely crowding upon three score years and ten, although time had manifestly dealt kindly with him, and even in age his form was arrow-like, his step elastic and his general bearing not unlike that of a soldier. As skyscraper after skyscraper towered aloft in the Jersey city, and on all sides were seen gigantic fac tories teeming with industry, he beheld like one in a dream, eagerly drinking in every sight that presented itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Utopia Or the History of an Extinct Planet Classic Reprint written by Alfred Cridge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Utopia or the History of an Extinct Planet You will now, he continued, see a peo ple but little in advance in any direction of your own earth. They are where, as far as intelli gence and mechanical improvements go, some of your people could be now; but your race will not attain even to this in several generations in all probability. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book More s Utopia Classic Reprint written by Thomas More and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from More's Utopia He next complains of the raising of rents beyond the real value of the land, of the number of idle retainers who when their masters die must steal or starve, of the unnecessary multitudes of soldiers that are kept, of the decay of husbandry, and the great evil of increased sheep-farming, seeing that it employs few men while husbandry furnishes work and wages for many. He then proceeds to point out the dearness of all commodities in the land, victuals, wool and cattle; ispeaks in strong terms of the licentiousness in manners and of the greed of the rich, who by monopohes and engrossing regulate the markets just as they please. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Utopia: Originally Printed in Latin, 1516 Utopia - probably written the second book at Antwerp about November 1515; and the first in London in the early part of 1516 - was first published abroad. It was printed by Theodore Martin at Louvain, under the editorship of Erasmus, AEgidius, Paludanus and other if More's friends in Flanders, towards the end of 1516. More then revised it, and, through Erasmus, it was sent to John Frobenius at Basle to print. This more sumptuous and, as regards authorship, second edition - probably containing the standard text - bears the date of November 1518. In the meantime however, a friend of Erasmus, the Englishman Thomas Lupset, brought out a reprint of the first edition at Paris, which was printed by Gilles de Bourmont before March 1518; and which is therefore in point of time, the second edition; the basle one, being the third; and one at Vienna in 1519, the fourth in order of appearance. All four were in Latin, then the common familiar language of the learned. By a strange fate, not a single copy of this work, in any language whatsoever, was printed in England in More's lifetime: or indeed prior to these English versions of Ralph Robinson. Yet - despite its original Latin garb - the work is essentially English, and will ever reckon among the treasures of our literature. Without some acquaintance with Sir Thomas More's life, one might be apt to assume Utopia to be entirely his own work, and the persons named in it to be fictitious. He wrote the letter to Petrus AEgidius, and the two books of Raphael's communication. Erasmus' letter to Frobenius (not here translated) was printed by him in the Basle edition of 1518. The following also contributed to the earlier Latin editions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The History of Utopian Thought Classic Reprint written by Joyce Oramel Hertzler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Utopian Thought In the second part Of this work we will appraise and analyze the Utopias, their writers, and their utopianism and the role of ideas and ideals contained therein. This program also de mands an investigation as to any contributions they have made in human advance, and any visible influence Of their potency. Of course, it also necessitates an analysis Of their shortcomings. Finally, it involves a treatment Of the effect Of the evolutionary conception and the theory Of history which came with it, on the utopian idea and the consequent changes in the type Of Utopias. Throughout it is essentially a study Of social ideas and ideals, - the influence Of environment and events in producing them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Coming Race written by Edward Bulwer Lytton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Coming Race: Or, the New Utopia The reader will understand, ere he close this narra tive, my reason for concealing all clue to the district of which I write, and will perhaps thank me for refraining from any description that may tend to its discovery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Sir Thomas More s Utopia written by Thomas More and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sir Thomas More's Utopia: Edited, With Introduction and Notes The text is practically that of the first edition of Robynson's translation, but I have corrected obvious misprints, and have not hesitated to adopt the text of the second edition where it is undoubtedly an improve ment on that of the first. These deviations from the first edition have been recorded in the Notes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Fall of Utopia written by Charles Joseph Bayne and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Utopia Or the Happy Republic written by Thomas More and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Utopia, or the Happy Republic: A Philosophical Romance The first topic upon which they start is Old age from this the transition is easy to the means by which old age may be rendered comfortable, among which wealth holds a prominent place; this conducts the discussion to the subject of a good conscience, then of justice, by the practice of which a good conscience is preserved. It is shown that to be just forms the basis of individual hap piness; that that which renders one man happy, must be equally successful when applied to many men - to all men; consequently, that justice consti tutee the happiness of states as Of individuals. Hence they pass to the consideration of the nature and form of a state, and may be adminis tered on just principles; in other words, rendered prosperous and happy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Sir Thomas More and His Utopia Classic Reprint written by Gerard Dudok and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sir Thomas More and His Utopia Now I think that for practical purposes it would be most advisable to lay Special stress on the subject-matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Age of Paradise written by John Strickland and published by Ancient Faith Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Before there was a West, there was Christendom. This book tells the story of how both came to be." (from the Introduction) The Age of Paradise is the first of a projected four-volume history of Christendom, a civilization with a supporting culture that gave rise to what we now call the West. At a time of renewed interest in the future of Western culture, author John Strickland-an Orthodox scholar, professor, and priest-offers a vision rooted in the deep past of the first millennium. At the heart of his story is the early Church's "culture of paradise," an experience of the world in which the kingdom of heaven was tangible and familiar. Drawing not only on worship and theology but statecraft and the arts, the author reveals the remarkably affirmative character Western culture once had under the influence of Christianity-in particular, of Eastern Christendom, which served the West not only as a cradle but as a tutor and guardian as well.
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.
