A legacy is memorialized through a compelling point-of-view historical Canadian documentary. From 1971-1977, Midian Farm was a back-to-the-land social experiment created by a community of urban baby boomers from Toronto. Part of the youth counterculture movement during a period of social and political re-imagining, its utopian vision eventually collapsed. More than four decades later, filmmaker Liz Marshall unearths a transformative piece of family...

Zachary T. Paleozogt--Zot!--is a superhero living on an alternate, utopian Earth circa 1965, a world of robot butlers, flying cars, and zany villains. Jenny Weaver is a high school student living on an imperfect world of disappointment and broken promises--our Earth. Stepping across the portals to each other's worlds, their lives will never be the same.

Quotes from children stating how they would like the world to be, from "If your bathing suit wouldn't fall off in the pool" to "If people never had to say goodbye."

Mainstream notions of the "American Dream" usually revolve around the ownership of private property--a house of one's own. Yet for the past 400 years, a large number of Americans have dared to dream bigger and bolder, choosing to live in intentional communities that pooled resources, and they worked to ensure the well-being of all their members. American Community takes us inside forty of the most interesting intentional communities in the nation's...

In the definitive philosophic work 'Republic, ' Plato ponders the idea of justness through a Socratic dialogue.

Critically assesses how literary and cinematic utopias and dystopias have imagined and evaluated surveillance. Imagining Surveillance presents the first full length study of the depiction and assessment of surveillance in literature and film. Focusing on the utopian genre (which includes positive and negative worlds), this book offers an in depth account of the ways in which the most creative writers, filmmakers and thinkers have envisioned alternative...