First published in 1897, The Year 3000 is the most daring and original work of fiction by the prominent Italian anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza. A futuristic utopian novel, the book follows two young lovers who, as they travel from Rome to the capital of the United Planetary States to celebrate their “mating union,” encounter the marvels of cultural and scientific advances along the way. Intriguing in itself, The Year 3000 is also remarkable for both its vision of the future (predicting an astonishing array of phenomena from airplanes, artificial intelligence, CAT scans, and credit cards to controversies surrounding divorce, abortion, and euthanasia) and the window it opens on fin de siècle Europe. Published here for the first time in English, this richly annotated edition features an invaluable introductory essay that interprets the intertextual and intercultural connections within and beyond Mantegazza’s work. For its critical contribution to early science fiction and for its insights into the hopes, fears, and clash of values in the Western world of both Mantegazza’s time and our own, this book belongs among the visionary giants of speculative literature.

Handu Hurgus was an engineer who had a masters degree in physics. Handu believed the lives lost in war was senseless, and he knew there was a better way. He believed the world could solve its own problems..... where world courts settled the big issues, not wars. No, the end to these wars was near. Handu read all of the history books in school, and he came to the conclusion that one day he would begin a New World government. When Handu's grandfather died, Handu's dream of starting a world government became a reality when billions of dollars were left to him. In fact, it was thanks to his grandfather that Handu had in fact become the richest man in the world. If it was not for his family and friends by his side, Handu couldn't have accomplished his dream. With years creating and perfecting his New World government, Handu ended up bluffing the world to surrender to him. To surrender to his world government he built on an uncharted island located somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.

Applying new theories about rights to pressing social issues, A Holistic Approach to Rights suggests major changes are needed in the ways we think about rights and formulating social policy. Part I analyzes rights as networks of warrants--socially recognized sanctions for doing, saying, demanding, believing, feeling, or thinking something as one's due. On this account, rights are more varied and play a more diverse and open-ended role in legal and moral thinking than most theories of rights allow. A new theory of natural rights treats them as claims that every person has upon the state, as a condition of legitimacy, to make adequate provision for those features of human life that require force against persons to be justified. Moral rights, such as the right to the truth, derive from team loyalty due fellow members of the moral community and can be lost by someone who acts in ways that undermine the moral enterprise. Part II provides detailed analyses of affirmative action, group rights, the rights of future generations, reproductive rights, the use of new reproductive technologies, and speech rights. Specific conclusions include an innovative proposal for regulating violence and pornography in the media.

Handbook of Policy Creativity, Volume 1 - Creativity at the Cutting Edge