Escaping Dystopia

Escaping Dystopia
Author: McBride, Stephen
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2022-07-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1529220637

Multiple crises have led many to conclude that the current economic and political system is broken. The present and future look increasingly precarious – if not outright dystopian Stephen McBride calls for radical solutions to these crises to provide a more rational and sustainable future. He critiques other potential responses which would further curtail democracy and increase the inequalities associated with neoliberal globalism. Demonstrating how mainstream ideas, powerful interests and political institutions face major challenges but block progressive alternatives, he argues that for radical transformation to succeed, institutional changes are necessary.

Escaping Dystopia

Escaping Dystopia
Author: Stephen McBride
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-07-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1529220629

Multiple crises have led many to conclude that the current economic and political system is broken. The present and future look increasingly precarious – if not outright dystopian Stephen McBride calls for radical solutions to these crises to provide a more rational and sustainable future. He critiques other potential responses which would further curtail democracy and increase the inequalities associated with neoliberal globalism. Demonstrating how mainstream ideas, powerful interests and political institutions face major challenges but block progressive alternatives, he argues that for radical transformation to succeed, institutional changes are necessary.

The Red Market

The Red Market
Author: Scott Carney
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2011-05-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0062079581

“An unforgettable nonfiction thriller, expertly reported….A tremendously revealing and twisted ride, where life and death are now mere cold cash commodities.” —Michael Largo, author of Final Exits Award-winning investigative journalist and contributing Wired editor Scott Carney leads readers on a breathtaking journey through the macabre underworld of the global body bazaar, where organs, bones, and even live people are bought and sold on The Red Market. As gripping as CSI and as eye-opening as Mary Roach’s Stiff, Carney’s The Red Market sheds a blazing new light on the disturbing, billion-dollar business of trading in human body parts, bodies, and child trafficking, raising issues and exposing corruptions almost too bizarre and shocking to imagine.

Escape to Eden

Escape to Eden
Author: Rachel McClellan
Publisher: Rachel McClellan
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"There's got to be more to life than just surviving." In the future, mankind has learned to manipulate their DNA, harnessing only the good genes, like intelligence, strength and height. They called this prime DNA and humans rushed to get these new pDNA injections, which gave them superhuman-like qualities. Centuries later, however, their DNA became so engineered that humans rarely live past the age of thirty, thanks to a new deadly disease called the Kiss. The only cure is to receive an injection of oDNA, DNA from an Original human that hasn't been genetically altered. Problem is there aren't many Originals left. When seventeen-year-old Sage wakes up in a hospital with no memories, her only clue are the words "Run Now" written on her hand. Trusting her instincts, Sage barely escapes but only to collide with an outside world that would kill to get their hands on her. With the help of unlikely allies, including a boy with hidden bat wings, Sage makes the dangerous trek to Eden, the last place for people like her and the only place she'll be safe from those at the Institute who would use her blood until she died. But with deadly Primes hot on their trail, Sage must make the ultimate sacrifice to save the people she’s grown to love. From USA Today bestselling author who brought you The Devil Series, Rachel McClellan, comes a Dystopian series that fans can't stop talking about. Readers who love Hunger Games, Divergent and Maze Runner will thoroughly enjoy the non-stop action and original characters. Scroll up and grab this dystopian romance TODAY! "One of the best Dystopian novels I've ever read!" - Amazon Top 500 Reviewer ★★★★★ "Rachel McClellan has written a fast-paced, page-turning dystopian novel that teens will absolutely love!" - Singing Librarian Books ★★★★★ "Made me think of the Hunger Games only I liked this one better!" - Amazon reviewer ★★★★★ "Amazing series!!! Been really into dystopian-style stories and stumbled across this one. Sage is such a kick-a$$ girl and I loved following her journey. Highly recommended." - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Hunger Games on steroids!" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ *** Keywords: Dystopian, dystopian novels, young adult novels, teen novels, ya, free series starter, free end of the world, free ya science fiction, free ya dystopian, free ya post apocalyptic, ya post-apocalyptic, free dystopian, free science fiction, free ya dystopian, first kiss, free coming of age book.

Rethinking Utopia

Rethinking Utopia
Author: David M. Bell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2017-01-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317486706

Over five hundred years since it was named, utopia remains a vital concept for understanding and challenging the world(s) we inhabit, even in – or rather because of – the condition of ‘post-utopianism’ that supposedly permeates them. In Rethinking Utopia David M. Bell offers a diagnosis of the present through the lens of utopia and then, by rethinking the concept through engagement with utopian studies, a variety of ‘radical’ theories and the need for decolonizing praxis, shows how utopianism might work within, against and beyond that which exists in order to provide us with hope for a better future. He proposes paying a ‘subversive fidelity’ to utopia, in which its three constituent terms: ‘good’ (eu), ‘place’ (topos), and ‘no’ (ou) are rethought to assert the importance of immanent, affective relations. The volume engages with a variety of practices and forms to articulate such a utopianism, including popular education/critical pedagogy; musical improvisation; and utopian literature. The problems as well as the possibilities of this utopianism are explored, although the problems are often revealed to be possibilities, provided they are subject to material challenge. Rethinking Utopia offers a way of thinking about (and perhaps realising) utopia that helps overcome some of the binary oppositions structuring much thinking about the topic. It allows utopia to be thought in terms of place and process; affirmation and negation; and the real and the not-yet. It engages with the spatial and affective turns in the social sciences without ever uncritically being subsumed by them; and seeks to make connections to indigenous cosmologies. It is a cautious, careful, critical work punctuated by both pessimism and hope; and a refusal to accept the finality of this or any world.

All These Things I've Done

All These Things I've Done
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1429933763

From Gabrielle Zevin—the author of the critically acclaimed Elsewhere—comes the first book in the Birthright series, All These Things I've Done, a masterful novel about an impossible romance, a mafia family, and the ties that forever bind us. In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine. It consists of going to school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to avoid falling in love with the new assistant D.A.'s son, and avoiding her loser ex-boyfriend. That is until her ex is accidently poisoned by the chocolate her family manufactures and the police think she's to blame. Suddenly, Anya finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight--at school, in the news, and most importantly, within her mafia family.

Escaping The Chains

Escaping The Chains
Author: Laura Greenwood
Publisher: Drowlgon Press
Total Pages: 116
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Escaping her life in chains could cost everything. Is it worth the risk? Maribelle entered the Marriage Market for a better life for her and her family, instead, all she got was pain and fear. After a year of marriage to Jacob, she is pushed to the limit, and one wrong move could mean the end of her life once and for all. But Maribelle is no longer alone, and with the support of her new allies, she begins to finally believe she can escape the chains binding her. - Escaping The Chains is a standalone spin-off to the Dragon Duels series, an urban fantasy with a dystopian flare. Escaping The Chains includes themes of domestic abuse (not between love interests), please read with caution. If you like deadly competitions, low-key magic, dystopian settings, dragons, and slow-burn romantic subplots, start the Dragon Duels series today with Stoking The Embers.

This Time of Darkness

This Time of Darkness
Author: H. M. Hoover
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2003-03-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765345677

Although both know it is forbidden, Amy and Axel hope that by following the countless ramps leading upward they can escape from their filthy subterranean world.

Shovel Ready

Shovel Ready
Author: Adam Sternbergh
Publisher: Broadway Books
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385349017

Since the dirty bomb hit Times Square and the city became a shell of itself, Spademan has become a hitman, not a garbage man. But when he's hired to kill the daughter of a powerful evangelist, his unadorned street life is upended.

Anthem

Anthem
Author: Ayn Rand
Publisher: Ayn Rand Institute Press
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2021-07-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0996010130

About this Edition This 2021-2022 Digital Student Edition of Ayn Rand's Anthem was created for teachers and students receiving free novels from the Ayn Rand Institute, and includes a historic Q&A with Ayn Rand that cannot be found in any other edition of Anthem. In this Q&A from 1979, Rand responds to questions about Anthem sent to her by a high school classroom. About Anthem Anthem is Ayn Rand’s “hymn to man’s ego.” It is the story of one man’s rebellion against a totalitarian, collectivist society. Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand “the Science of Things.” But he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thought is a crime and where science and technology have regressed to primitive levels. All expressions of individualism have been suppressed in the world of Anthem; personal possessions are nonexistent, individual preferences are condemned as sinful and romantic love is forbidden. Obedience to the collective is so deeply ingrained that the very word “I” has been erased from the language. In pursuit of his quest for knowledge, Equality 7-2521 struggles to answer the questions that burn within him — questions that ultimately lead him to uncover the mystery behind his society’s downfall and to find the key to a future of freedom and progress. Anthem anticipates the theme of Rand’s first best seller, The Fountainhead, which she stated as “individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man’s soul.”