1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460885503321

Titolo

Viable utopian ideas : shaping a better world / / edited by Arthur B. Shostak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-315-69838-2

1-317-45268-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ShostakArthur B

Disciplina

335/.02

Soggetti

Utopias

Idealism

Social change

Social prediction

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2003 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""I. Challenges-Personal in Nature""; ""1. Private Dreams and Collective Ideals""; ""2. Why Altruism Is Considered Deviant Behavior: Obstacles on the Path to a Viable Utopia""; ""II. Challenges-Conceptual in Nature""; ""3. Utopia Revisited: New Thinking on Social Betterment""; ""4. Utopia-An Obsolete Concept""; ""5. Utopianism Comes of Age""; ""6. Utopia and the Attempted Flow of Useful Ideas: Why Being Able to Define and Measure a Clear Vision Matters""

""III. Methods: Even Better Tools""""7. Modest Steps toward an Ideal World: Sociological Practice and Utopia""; ""8. Utopian Poetry: A Medium for the Message""; ""9. Building Common Ground: Rethinking Rules of Engagement""; ""10. The Utopian University of the People: A Story That Is Not Too Good to Be True""; ""IV. Methods: Information Technology""; ""11. The Human Utopia and the Web""; ""12. Toward a New Democracy""; ""13. Internet Dreaming: Investigating Online Community at the Math Forum""; ""14. Welcome to ""the Collective"": New Meaning



to a Meeting of Minds""; ""V. Looking Inward""

""15. Understanding Opposing Viewpoints: Placing Yourself in the Shoes of the Other""""16. The Conscious Use of the ""Mirror Effect"": Co-Creating a Utopian World""; ""17. Surprised on the Run!""; ""VI. Looking Homeward""; ""18. Utopias and City Planning: Finding Strength in One Another""; ""19. Distributed Floating Cities: A Laboratory for Exploring Social Utopias""; ""20. I Am a Utopian: Creating the ""Resort Circle""""; ""21. Personal Utopia: Technology's Effect on the Meaning of Home""; ""VII. Schooling Possibilities""; ""22. A Future Vision for Public Education""

""23. Blue Sky for Black America: Utopia and African America's Future""""24. Inventing Utopian Delinquency Reforms: Being There in Ways That Work""; ""VIII. High-Schoolers on Utopia""; ""25. Posterity in Their Hands: High School Students and Their Hopes for Utopia""; ""26. Conception for Perfection: A Practical Utopia""; ""27. Settling the High Frontier: Castles in the Sky""; ""IX. Choices: Very Personal""; ""28. ""How Do You Want Your Abortion?""""; ""29. Read 'Em and Weep, Boys""; ""30. Choosing Your Future""; ""X. Choices: Societal""

""31. The Journey Counts Most: Building Deserving Organizations""""32. The Society Unions Can Build: Toward a Utopian Social Democratic America""; ""33. Utopian Conceptions of Society's Third Sector""; ""XI. Nation-Building Aids""; ""34. Utopianism and Grassroots Alternatives""; ""35. The Ulithi Project: Can a Traditional Non-Western Culture Survive?""; ""36. Utopias Discovered: National Policies That Prevent Ethnic Conffict""; ""37. The World Senate and Academy""; ""XII. The Big Picture: Global Transformation""; ""38. The Future by Design: Beyond Money and Politics""

""39. Our Hard Problems Need Soft Solutions: This Is the Century of Soft Things""



2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00449426

Autore

ATTAL, Pierre

Titolo

Maurice Sceve / un tableau synoptique de la vie et des oeuvres de Maurice Sceve et des événements artistiques, ... par Jean-Pierre Attal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Seghers, 1963

Descrizione fisica

223 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.

Soggetti

SCEVE MAURICE

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0264008

Titolo

Séminaire de Probabilités 20. : 1984/85 : Proceedings / Edité par J. Azema et M. Yor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : Springer, 1986

Descrizione fisica

viii, 640 p. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

60-XX - Probability theory and stochastic processes [MSC 2020]

00B25 - Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia