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Life and works of English writer Aldous Huxley, best known for his novel Brave New World.

Reading as a writer is quite different from reading as a reader. A writer reads slowly, relishing every well- constructed sentence, identifying theme and much more.

Aldous Huxley's prescient look into a world beholden to advanced eugenics, social caste, sexuality, and soma is riveting and has aged extremely well.

Aldous Huxley's 1948 novel entitled Ape and Essence revisits the dystopian novel genre that Huxley is best known for/

Psychedelia is another vision of the world; one where perception can see the spirituality of nature and its connection with the human soul.

These five dystopian novels will give any reader the chills: all of them predict bleak controlled futures: some may hit too close to home for your own comfort.

The idea that one can absorb knowledge without conscious effort must certainly appeal to frantic students burning the midnight oil for the next morning's examination.

Two universities, each subdivided into many colleges - spire inspirations for many writers and works of fantasy...fatal, freakish, and fairytale stories from Oxbridge.

Scores of science fiction books have been written with a dark, dystopian slant. The following is an introduction to clear examples of dystopia in literature.

Jack Bauer is back, this time to try and thwart a conspiracy that goes to the highest level of government.

Andy Warhol died 22 years ago. The Hayward Gallery has now mounted its second exhibition taking a fresh look at Warhol's affect on popular culture in the 20th century.

With local politics turning on skimpy turnouts, some activists are thrust into positions of power and are able to implement minority causes for the whole of society.

This Covent Garden street is a typical urban thoroughfare with offices, bars, shops, and restaurants. Yet its busy modern façade hides a past full of famous names.

Utopias have been described in popular novels for 500 years. They are popular despite the weakness of the depiction, especially when compared to a dystopia.

Although not tightly focused on Darwin's findings, Creation is a film that explores his relationship with his theories, religion and family. Read a review below.

Addiction has historically remained a topic of curiosity among writers and readers. Here is an overview of addiction in historical, modern and non-traditional literature.

A genuine classic, Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby, with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, is just as funny now as it was in 1938.

Drinking tea or coffee may prevent diabetes. Tea and coffee drinkers have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to the results of new studies.

Out of the Top 100 books of the 20th Century as listed by the Radcliff Publishing Course, 42 are or have been on the banned or challenged book list.

The American success story that is the 24 series starring Keifer Sutherland as Jack Bauer has many plot lines that despite making the show what it is, are repetitive.

An examination of the process by which the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted and adopted by the United Nations.

Shakespeare, "The Bard of Avon", wrote more than two dozen plays,150 sonnets, and several longer poems. Authors have adapted his characters and plots in well-known works

Getting ready to go to college and wondering what to study? Here are some thoughts about environment-friendly degrees and education programs.

Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution has been surrounded in controversy and debate, despite fossil and genomic evidence to support it.

"Cloud Atlas" is a masterful series of six inter-related tales that span generations and continents to illustrate the basic human condition.

Brief biography of English short-story writer and historian H.G. Wells, best known for his science fiction works such as The Time Machine and The Invisible Man.

Biography of American philosopher and educationist John Dewey, pioneer of pragmatism and educational reforms.

Leading change is never going to be a popular or commonly understood and supported undertaking.

Mary Anning was a fossil hunter of extraordinary talent whose work was vital to the study of natural history and, ultimately, to the understanding of evolution.

Abraham Maslow, in his paper, A Theory of Human Motivation, studied exemplary people to launch the ideas of growth and human potential psychology.

For a few decades, exposing one's skin to the sun was seen as inviting skin cancer. But medical science has seen the light, and now recommends sunshine for good health.

Week one of the 2008 Super 14 Rugby season is in the books and the Brumbies and Waratahs had very different results.

If you think that s-f is a silly boys' genre all about star-ships and robots battling in space, think again: and use this selection for the unconverted as a guide.

Disney hands out five postcards promoting Andrew Stanton's next flick WALL-E. Bonus: BuyNLarge has a website.

The evolutionary trail from single-celled amoebas to Homo sapiens hasn't ended; the journey continues and may take humans in surprising directions.

The book that brought us the Ministry of Truth, Big Brother, and the language of Newspeak is an intellectually stimulating dystopia.

A quintessentially modernist poem, "The Waste Land" is noted for its length, frequent use of allusion, foreign language phrases, and fragmented style.

The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the most famous album ever. The band included 'people we like' on the cover photograph and here's a list of who's who

Young adult dystopian literature helps young adults see the consequence of today's apathy and indulgence. We learn why with Lois Lowry's The Giver and MT Anderson's Feed.

Sex roles are changing rapidy in the twenty-first century. Transgendered, male, female, masculine and feminine-how are they related and who decides who we are?

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