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Covers utopian thought and experiments with over 600 multiple entries arranged sequentially.

Discusses efforts to create perfect societies by such individuals as: Ann Lee and Joseph Meacham and the Shakers, Christian Metz and the Amana Colonies, George Rapp and the Harmony Society, Robert Owen and New Harmony, George Ripley and Brook Farm, John Humphrey Noyes and Oneida, and Katherine Tingley and the Point Loma community.

Recounts the efforts of Louisa May Alcott's family to establish a utopian community known as Fruitlands in Massachusetts in 1843, as seen through the eyes of the shy eleven-year-old girl next door.

Examines the history of the quest for the ideal life.

After his father begins working for the mysterious Eden Corporation and forcibly relocates the family to the village of Paradise, teenage Jack uncovers a sinister plot that threatens to destroy them all.

Plato examines the nature of justice and other topics of moral and political philosophy in the format of a dialogue between Socrates and several other thinkers.

The teens escape from Novo Mundum, and have to return to the center of the terror when the try to stop the crazed scientist from unleashing a new plague.

An English translation of Plato's "Republic" that includes a corrected text, an interpretive essay, and a comprehensive index.

Presents a revised translation of Sir Thomas More's classic novel "Utopia," and includes background selections from major secular and religious texts and modern critical essays.

A study of Transcendentalist utopian thought in nineteenth century New England as evidenced in the experimental communities of Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Henry David Thoreau's cabin on Walden Pond.

When former wallflower Chase Maxfield returns to school in the fall as a hunky high schooler, his too-good-to-be-true physical transformation unsettles Jack, who discovers that the dangerous, utopia-building Mr.

Presents a compilation of four major texts important for developing an understanding of utopian thinking in the ancient world, including Plato's Atlantis.

Poland's greatest actress, Maryna Zalezowska, ends her career to start a utopian commune in California in 1876, and when the enterprise fails, intrigue and passion follow her into a new acting career in America.