Autorova optimistická vize spravedlivého uspořádání společnosti, která svým občanům dává ideální podmínky pro rozvoj osobnosti. Huxley vydal tento protipól ke své negativní vizi Konec civilizace v roce 1962 po "dvaceti letech přemýšlení a... Zobraziť viac
Among the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychadelic drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books—The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell—in which Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, ... Zobraziť viac
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined ... Zobraziť viac
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique... Zobraziť viac
Contemporary / British English. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is one of the great works of science fiction.It is the year After Ford 632 in the New World. People are born and live by scientific methods. There is worldwide happiness and order... Zobraziť viac
Island, ostrov ohně a ledu, dosud prožívá proces geologického utváření zemského povrchu. Na ostrovech Vestmannaeyjar, v nehostinné měsíční krajině kolem sopky Askja nebo v okolí sopky Krafla nedaleko jezera Mývatn pokrývá zemi mladá vrstva lávy... Zobraziť viac
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers... Zobraziť viac
Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs.You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Som Zobraziť viac
This title comes with introductions by Margaret Atwood and David Bradshaw. Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational ... Zobraziť viac
One of Brave New World author Aldous Huxley’s finest and most personal novels, now back in print in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, Eyeless in Gaza is the story of one man’s quest to find a meaningful life, ... Zobraziť viac
Aldous Huxley's acclaimed and gripping account of one of the strangest occurrences in history. In 1632 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil... Zobraziť viac
An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley"The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in ... Zobraziť viac
In this anthology of twenty-six essays and other writings, Huxley discusses the nature of God, enlightenment, being,good and... Zobraziť viac
In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the... Zobraziť viac
Thirty years ago, ecstasy and torment took hold of John Rivers, shocking him out of “half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form.” He had an affair with the wife of his mentor, Henry Maartens ... Zobraziť viac
Contemporary / British English: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is one of the great works of science fiction. It is the year After Ford 632 in the New World. People are born and live by scientific methods... Zobraziť viac
Autorova optimistická vize spravedlivého uspořádání společnosti, která svým občanům dává ideální podmínky pro rozvoj... Zobraziť viac
In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen... Zobraziť viac
Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, ... Zobraziť viac
Human beings, graded from intellectuals to manual workers, hatched from incubators and brought up in communal nurseries,... Zobraziť viac
