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Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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The astonishing novel Brave New World , originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently... read more
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley (Author)“Brave new world” is a book about society of the future. The society of New Mexico savage reserve is a place where the people have the ability to literally change other people’s minds and labels them by categories of intelligence. The man...
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Brave New World Revisited
by Aldous Huxley (Author)When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses...
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First Sentence edit
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.
Table of Contents edit
Foreward by Christopher Hitchens
Brave New World
Preface
Brave New World Revisited
Preface
I. Over-Population
II. Quantity, Quality, and Morality
III. Over-Organization
IV. Propaganda in a Democratic Society
V. Propaganda Under a Dictatorship
VI. The Arts of Selling
VII. Brainwashing
VIII. Chemical Persuasion
IX. Subconscious Persuasion
X. Hypnopaedia
XI. Education for Freedom
XII. What Can Be Done?
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Harper Perennial Modern Classics. (standard series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Aldous Huxley (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Christopher Hitchens (Foreword)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harpercollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0060535261
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Harpercollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0060535261
Page Count: 368
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.912
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