Highly Desirable: Tales of London’s super-prime property from the Secret Agent

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In 1905, H.G. Wells published A Modern Utopia, which was widely read and admired and provoked much discussion. Also consider Eric Frank Russell's book The Great Explosion (1963), the last section of which details an economic and social utopia. This forms the first mention of the idea of Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS). A gloriously entertaining glimpse behind the closed doors of the high-end house market. I never knew property could be so riveting’ – PRUE LEITH Tian, Xiaofei (2010). "From the Eastern Jin through the Early Tang (317–649)". The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p.221. ISBN 978-0-521-85558-7. In ourselves alone the absolute light keeps shining, a sigillum falsi et sui, mortis et vitae aeternae [false signal and signal of eternal life and death itself], and the fantastic move to it begins: to the external interpretation of the daydream, the cosmic manipulation of a concept that is utopian in principle." — Ernst Bloch What one can not help but to reflect throughout the book is that the estate agents are nothing more than freeloading off the rich people. There is without a doubt that the friendships described in the book are not 100% genuine, and they are kept and maintained because of business. So in fact the relationships are very fake. Often in the book you will find examples when the client gave the business to the author's competitor and as a result the author immediately questioned the "friendship", and that he even wrote a letter to say how hurtful it was to one of his clients who did not give him the business he felt he deserved.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace." — Theodor W. Adorno An Ecotopian Lexicon (2019), edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-1517905897. According to the Philosophical Dictionary, proto-utopian ideas begin as early as the period of ancient Greece and Rome, medieval heretics, peasant revolts and establish themselves in the period of the early capitalism, reformation and Renaissance ( Hus, Müntzer, More, Campanella), democratic revolutions ( Meslier, Morelly, Mably, Winstanley, later Babeufists, Blanquists,) and in a period of turbulent development of capitalism that highlighted antagonisms of capitalist society ( Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen, Cabet, Lamennais, Proudhon and their followers). [10] Definitions and interpretations [ edit ] Sosis, Richard; Bressler, Eric R. (2003). "Cooperation and Commune Longevity: A Test of the Costly Signaling Theory of Religion". Cross-Cultural Research. SAGE Publishing. 37 (2): 211–239. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.500.5715. doi: 10.1177/1069397103037002003. S2CID 7908906.

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Ongoing Covid restrictions, reduced air and freight capacity, high volumes and winter weather conditions are all impacting transportation and local delivery across the globe. Perhaps the oldest Utopia of which we know, as pointed out many years ago by Moses Finley, [36] is Homer’s Scheria, island of the Phaeacians. [37] A mythical place, often equated with classical Corcyra, (modern Corfu/ Kerkyra), where Odysseus was washed ashore after 10 years of storm-tossed wandering and escorted to the King’s palace by his daughter Nausicaa. With stout walls, a stone temple and good harbours, it is perhaps the ‘ideal’ Greek colony, a model for those founded from the middle of the 8th C onward. A land of plenty, home to expert mariners (with the self-navigating ships), and skilled craftswomen who live in peace under their king's rule and fear no strangers. During the 16th century, Thomas More's book Utopia proposed an ideal society of the same name. [18] Readers, including Utopian socialists, have chosen to accept this imaginary society as the realistic blueprint for a working nation, while others have postulated that Thomas More intended nothing of the sort. [19] It is believed that More's Utopia functions only on the level of a satire, a work intended to reveal more about the England of his time than about an idealistic society. [20] This interpretation is bolstered by the title of the book and nation and its apparent confusion between the Greek for "no place" and "good place": "utopia" is a compound of the syllable ou-, meaning "no" and topos, meaning place. But the homophonic prefix eu-, meaning "good," also resonates in the word, with the implication that the perfectly "good place" is really "no place." A professional confessional like no other, Highly Desirable plunges us into the face-paced, high-stakes and glamorous world of London’s super-prime property business.

a b c Tierney, Helen (1999). Women's Studies Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 1442. ISBN 978-0-313-31073-7. Maddegama, Udaya (1993). Sermon of the Chronicle-to-be. Motilal Banarsidass. pp.32–33. ISBN 9788120811331. Plutarch, the Greek historian and biographer of the 1st century, dealt with the blissful and mythic past of humanity.

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a b Longxi, Zhang (2005). Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p.182. ISBN 978-0-8014-4369-5. Chronologically, the first recorded Utopian proposal is Plato's Republic. [17] Part conversation, part fictional depiction and part policy proposal, Republic would categorize citizens into a rigid class structure of "golden," "silver," "bronze" and "iron" socioeconomic classes. The golden citizens are trained in a rigorous 50-year-long educational program to be benign oligarchs, the "philosopher-kings." Plato stressed this structure many times in statements, and in his published works, such as the Republic. The wisdom of these rulers will supposedly eliminate poverty and deprivation through fairly distributed resources, though the details on how to do this are unclear. The educational program for the rulers is the central notion of the proposal. It has few laws, no lawyers and rarely sends its citizens to war but hires mercenaries from among its war-prone neighbors. These mercenaries were deliberately sent into dangerous situations in the hope that the more warlike populations of all surrounding countries will be weeded out, leaving peaceful peoples. The sense of timelessness was predominant in the story as a perfect utopian community remains unchanged, that is, it had no decline nor the need to improve. [47] Eventually, the Chinese term Peach Blossom Spring came to be synonymous for the concept of utopia. [48] Datong [ edit ] Ideology and Utopia: an Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge (1936), by Karl Mannheim, translated by Louis Wirth and Edward Shils. New York, Harcourt, Brace. See original, Ideologie Und Utopie, Bonn: Cohen. Haag, Herbert (1969). Is original sin in Scripture?. New York: Sheed and Ward. ISBN 9780836202502. German or. ed.: 1966.

Wakefield influenced several colonies founded in New Zealand and Australia in the 1830s, 1840s and 1850s. A man must be far gone in Utopian speculations who can seriously doubt that if these [United] States should either be wholly disunited, or only united in partial confederacies, the subdivisions into which they might be thrown would have frequent and violent contests with each other." — Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 6. Offering an insider’s view into the hidden machinations of this exclusive market, The Secret Agent sees Max attempt to balance his team, his own needs and, of course, the books against his ever-demanding clients, as he showcases the good, the bad, and the downright bizarre nature of the real-estate market of the super-rich. Galt's Gulch: Ayn Rand's Utopian Delusion" (2012), by Alan Clardy. Utopian Studies 23, 238–262. ISSN 1045-991XA map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias." — Oscar Wilde

Mollins, Julie (22 February 2021). "Selective memories: The historical roots of environmentalism". CIFOR Forests News . Retrieved 16 August 2022. Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought (2011), edited by Patricia Vieira and Michael Marder. London & New York: Continuum. ISBN 1-4411-6921-0 For examples and explanations, see: Marshall, Alan (2016). Ecotopia 2121: A Vision of Our Future Green Utopia. New York: Arcade Publishers. ISBN 978-1-62872-614-5. And Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew, and Bellamy, Brent Ryan (2019). An Ecotopian Lexicon. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-151790-589-7a b Gaétan Brulotte& John Phillips, Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature, "Science Fiction and Fantasy", CRC Press, 2006, p. 1189, ISBN 1-57958-441-1 West-Eberhard, Mary Jane (1975). "The Evolution of Social Behavior by Kin Selection". The Quarterly Review of Biology. University of Chicago Press. 50 (1): 1–33. doi: 10.1086/408298. JSTOR 2821184. S2CID 14459515. Berkowitz, Alan J. (2000). Patterns of Disengagement: the Practice and Portrayal of Reclusion in Early Medieval China. Stanford: Stanford University Press. p.225. ISBN 978-0-8047-3603-9. If you are as devoted to Location, Location and Kirsty and Phil as I am, you’ll be gripped. ― The Oldie Gu, Ming Dong (2006). Chinese Theories of Fiction: A Non-Western Narrative System. Albany: State University of New York Press. p.59. ISBN 978-0-7914-6815-9.