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Utopia
Lincoln Child
Fawcett, 2003
Utopia by Lincoln Child
Lincoln Child is one of my very favorite authors ever and this book was superbly written with action continuously all the way through. I strongly suggest all books he co-wrote with Douglas Preston and his other two solo books, Death Match and Deep Storm. This man is ...
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Island (Perennial Classics)
Aldous Huxley
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002
Utopia Vs Dystopia
If you read a Brave New World you have to read also this one.
Is the more mature vision of a possible better world from Huxley totally different that the first dystopia.
It was written back in the 60's but the book remains actual...
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Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias
Andrew D. Blechman
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008
Leisureville
Great book. We live in a community on the outskirts of The Villages. We're so glad we decided NOT to buy in the Villages 5 years ago. This book just reiterated what we thought at the time. Was great to read about all the places we're familiar with, but the behind ...
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Anarchy, State, And Utopia
Robert Nozick
Basic Books, 1974
I Loved This Book
An observation and common criticism of the book, both in this little Amazon fishbowl and elsewhere, is that Nozick takes givens, starts the arguments, and proceeds without initial justification of his givens.
The charge is accurate. So throughout the logic of the ...
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Utopia (Penguin Classics)
Thomas More
Penguin Classics, 2003
A Surprising Saint
I suspect this translation is a paraphrase of the original Latin. Nevertheless, it has the virtue of being lively and very readable. More is a Catholic saint, which makes much of what he says in Utopia very surprising indeed. The Tudor functionary who persecuted ...
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Plato: Republic
Plato, G. M. A. Grube, ...
Hackett Publishing Company, 1992
Best Translator of Plato
Grube is the most accurate and faithful translator of Plato. Unlike most other translators, in particular the horrendous Allan Bloom, Grube was both a first rate Greek scholar and had no ax to grind. You are always in good hands with one of his translations.
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The Republic Of Plato: Second Edition
Plato
Basic Books, 1991
Great Political Theory and Philosophy
The main arguments of The Republic are so well known that they hardly need restatement in this review. The central issues in this book are of great importance, but one should also take note of the side issues that Plato raises in political theory and philosophy.
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Republic
Plato
Hackett Publishing Company, 2004
Life in an unreal ideal world
Plato's 'Republic' is one of the most important works of ancient Greek philosophy, and one of the foundation pieces of political science and political philosophy of that and subsequent ages. It was one of the first pieces I read when undertaking a political science ...
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Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia
David L. Cook
Sacred Journey Stories, 2006
Best reading in years
I don't give myself much time to sit and read books, even though I am currently reading three books and haven't finished any of them. When I received this one, I honestly couldn't put it down. Golf's Sacred Journey is so much more than a book of golf. It is a ...
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Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
John Gray
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Best Book of 2008
Not often I give 5 stars to any book. But I have to give it to this one. Its good....I'm not sure that it compares with Niail Fergusson's latest Opus "The War of the World" in many ways... but from what he tries to do it is very good at analyzing apocalyptic politics - ...
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Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform
David Tyack, Larry Cuban
Harvard University Press, 1997
Best Brief Intro to Educational Reform in the US
Tinkering Toward Utopia is simply the best brief introduction to the history of educational reform in the US available. Anyone with a genuine interest in historical explanations of why grand schemes of school reform fail and why "crisis" is the way the US has tended ...
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Art Nouveau: Utopia: Reconciling the Irreconcilable (Taschen's 25th Anniversary Special Editions Series)
Klaus-Jurgen Sembach
Taschen, 2007
Another great book for my Collection!!
I'm a design student- and this is great book of various Nouveau elements!!-Also a great read-besides reference
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The Shock of The New: The Hundred-Year History of Modern Art Its Rise, Its Dazzling Achievement, It's Fall
Robert Hughes
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1990
The rise and fall of modernism
This is based on the script for a BBC program. To be a good TV program, it should have a clear and plain storyline which could fit into limited timetable. You can identify such a feature in the form of book, though substantially enlarged. The author did his best to ...
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Lost Horizon: A Novel
James Hilton
Harper Perennial, 2004
My favorite book of all time
I think the first thing that struck me was how timeless this story is, the search for a personal utopia, the subtle morality, the ideal of moderation. The quotes struck me as so appropriate for the modern age, even though the book was written in 1933. "laziness in ...
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Utopia
Thomas More
Filiquarian, 2007
$2.39 for a book from the 1500s?
Assuming copyright law hasn't gone totally haywire since I last checked, Amazon is asking money for something in the public domain. This book is almost 500 years old. It belongs to the culture at large. So what does this $2.39 cover? Packaging and distribution? ...
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