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Books on: imaginary worlds

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Imaginary Social Worlds: A Cultural Approach

Book by John L. Caughey; University of Nebraska Press, 1984

Subjects:

Fantasy, Interpersonal Relations, Mass Media--Psychological Aspects, Popular Culture, Psychology, Pathological

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...social interactions in imaginary worlds. I will also be concerned with the way in which imaginary social relationships...solely with the inner world of this social system...often been assumed that imaginary social experience is...
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Mindscapes: The Geographies of Imagined Worlds

Book by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin; Southern Illinois University Press, 1989

Subjects:

Fantasy Literature--History And Criticism--Congresses, Imaginary Places In Literature--Congresses, Science Fiction--History And Criticism--Congresses

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...activity of speculative worlds. These critics are less...practical -- as mapper of imaginary worlds. For the critic is a creator of imaginary landscapes, in this case...mythscapes from that natural world it now names, in interactive...
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The Lost Worlds Romance: From Dawn till Dusk

Book by Allienne R. Becker; Greenwood Press, 1992

Subjects:

Fantasy Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Fantasy Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Imaginary Places In Literature, Imaginary Societies In Literature, Utopias In Literature, Voyages, Imaginary

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...brought the reality of lost worlds close to the people of Europe...twenty years, while many Lost Worlds Romances were being written...accounts in Genesis, that the world had begun in 4004 B.C. The...the times in their stories of imaginary voyages, which because of...eighteenth century, the Lost Worlds Romance continued the tradition...
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Imagination and the Arts in C.S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds

Book by Peter J. Schakel; University of Missouri Press, 2002

Subjects:

Art And Literature--Great Britain--History--20th Century, Art In Literature, Children's Stories, English--History And Criticism, Children--Books And Reading--Great Britain--History--20th Century, Fantasy Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Imagination, Imagination In Literature, Lewis, C. S--(Clive Staples)--1898-1963--Chronicles Of Narnia, Lewis, C. S--(Clive Staples)--1898-1963--Knowledge--Art, Narnia (Imaginary Place)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...not everything in the Potter series is imaginary (23). Rowling, he shows, has pulled...echoed in the books; and the titles of imaginary books in the stories often resemble the...writing technique for adding realism to an imaginary story. For a balanced, well-informed...
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Tolkien's World of the Rings: Language, Religion and Adventure

Book by Jared Lobdell; Open Court, 2003

Subjects:

Fantasy Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Middle Earth (Imaginary Place), Tolkien, J. R. R--(John Ronald Reuel)--1892-1973--Lord Of The Rings

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...may not be) but that the whole world of The Lord of the Rzkqs as we perceive it is an English world, indeed a medieval English world, where Elves are Welsh and Dwarves...Englishness of the Rohirrim, is not imaginary. The Northwest of the Old World...

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Journal Articles on: imaginary worlds

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The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World

Journal article by John P. Ziker; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 12, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World. by John P. Ziker MCGHEE, ROBERT. The last imaginary place: a human history of the Arctic...author. With Robert McGhees The last imaginary place we have exactly such a viable...
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Americana: The Americas in the World, around 1850 (or 'Seeing the Elephant' as the Theme for an Imaginary Western)

Journal article by John Charles Chasteen; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 68, 2002

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Americana: The Americas in the World, around 1850 (or `Seeing the Elephant' as the Theme for an Imaginary Western). (Book)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Americana: The Americas in the World, around 1850 (or Seeing the Elephant as the Theme for an Imaginary Western). by John Charles...far corners of the Atlantic world (the United States, Western...bringing several corners of that world simultaneously into focus...
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Terrifying Beauty: The Imaginary World of Garrett Serviss

Journal article by Kathleen N. Monahan; West Virginia University Philological Papers, Vol. 53, 2006

Subjects:

Edison's Conquest of Mars (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Fantasy writers--Works, Serviss, Garrett--Works, The War of the Worlds (Novel)--Influence, Wells, H.G.--Works

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...Terrifying Beauty: The Imaginary World of Garrett Serviss...Wellss War of the Worlds appeared in Cosmopolitan...Although Servisss imaginary world evokes in its explorers...Davis, L.J. "World Enough." Harpers Magazine...H.G. War of the Worlds (1897). New York...
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"Dancing in Chains": The Imaginary of Global South Africanism in World Cup Stadium Architecture

Journal article by Federico Freschi; African Arts, Vol. 44, 2011

Subjects:

Architecture--Analysis, Soccer--Influence, Soccer--South Africa, Stadiums--Design and construction, Stadiums--Social aspects, World Cup (Soccer)--Influence

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...in Chains": The Imaginary of Global South Africanism in World Cup Stadium Architecture...construction of a new imaginary of the South African...shaping a national imaginary, but also in packaging...this for the outside world. Despite their limited...
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Imaginary Worlds, Real Stories

Journal article by Terry Pratchett; Folklore, Vol. 111, 2000

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Fantastic literature--Authorship, Folklore--Personal narratives

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Imaginary Worlds, Real Stories. by Terry Pratchett...itself is a window into another world with a quasi-existence of...fact, are set in the largely imaginary world of Discworld. I say "largely imaginary" because of course it has...

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Magazine Articles on: imaginary worlds

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Worlds to Conquer Online: Multiplayer Gaming Comes of Age; Imaginary Worlds Enable Billions to Act out Their Dreams, and Computerized Fantasies Offer Opportunities to Make Real Money

Magazine article by Lane Jennings; The Futurist, Vol. 40, July 2006

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Computer games--Forecasts and trends, Online games--Forecasts and trends, Video game industry--Industry forecasts, Video games industry--Industry forecasts

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...Multiplayer Gaming Comes of Age; Imaginary Worlds Enable Billions to...up in the "costume" of an imaginary character they have created...game sites, or "synthetic worlds," as Castronova calls them...the fact that each synthetic world has its own currency, which...together in the same online game world. But these trends may take...dangers arising in synthetic worlds. For example, with the widespread...
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The Imaginary World of Henri Rousseau

Magazine article by Anne Henderson; School Arts, Vol. 98, March 1999

Subjects:

Artists--Biography, Rousseau, Henri--Biography

Collections: Education, Entire Library

The Imaginary World of Henri Rousseau by Anne Henderson Most...the Vanves Gate, Rousseau observed the world around him and filled numerous notebooks...Guillaume Apollinaire. They admired the imaginary settings, the lack of adherence to a...
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Real and Imaginary Risks

Magazine article by Anatol Lieven; The World Today, Vol. 64, February 2008

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Balance of payments, Corporate identity, Election results, Military history, Nuclear weapons, Pakistan, Politics, Prime ministers, Risk assessment

Collections: History, Entire Library

Real and Imaginary Risks by Anatol Lieven PAKISTAN...developments in the Muslim world. There is an enormous amount...anywhere in the Sunni Muslim world should be seen as unlikely...in a sober but frightening World Bank report of 2004 - the...
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Nerd Nation: The Thin Line between World of Warcraft and Fantasy Football

Magazine article by Jesse Singal; Washington Monthly, Vol. 41, November 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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...Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms by Ethan Gilsdorf The...Garners, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms, part travelogue...gone online and mainstream. World of Warcraft, set in a danger...of peoples desire to visit imaginary realms. In an attempt to...and who enjoys inhabiting worlds in which her character can...
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World Poverty, Pauperization, & Capital Accumulation

Magazine article by Samir Amin; Monthly Review, Vol. 55, October 2003

Subjects:

Agricultural development projects--International aspects, Agricultural development--International aspects, Capitalism--Influence, Rural development--Economic aspects, Rural development--International aspects, Rural development--Social aspects, World Trade Organization

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...urban, they are home to a third of the worlds urban population. The popular classes account for three-quarters of the worlds urban population, while the precarious...thirds of the popular classes on a world scale. (About 40 percent of the popular...half century ago, following the Second World War, shows that the proportions that...have become. At the time, the third worlds share did not exceed half of the global...

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Newspaper Articles on: imaginary worlds

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Storytellers Escort Audiences to Imaginary Worlds

Newspaper article by Denise Barnes; The Washington Times, July 22, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Storytellers escort audiences to imaginary worlds by Denise Barnes Storytellers are special people. They spin...captivated audiences at Glen Echo Park with stories from around the world. Since there are two tellers in the Chatham household, they...
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'I Want to Get Absorbed in My Imaginary World'

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 23, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

I Want to Get Absorbed in My Imaginary World. Jacqueline Wilson, author of...adults do and youre seeing the world with fresh eyes but youre still...I want to get absorbed in my imaginary world. Later, when I type it...
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The Brit Artist Who Can Draw; Paul Noble's Bizarre Imaginary World Is Taking Him 10 Years to Create. It's a Series of Huge-Scale Drawings and the Devil, He Says, Is in the Detail

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 31, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Who Can Draw; Paul Nobles Bizarre Imaginary World Is Taking Him 10 Years to Create...gathered, riveted by the intricate world that he had invented with pencil...lost in your own expertise." The world he explores with an HB pencil is...
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Horror or Child's Play; What' S on This Week MOVIE OF THE WEEK an Imaginary Friendship Leads Little Emily, Played by Child Star Dakota Fanning, into a Dark and Dangerous World HIDE AND SEEK SATURDAY, SKY MOVIES 1,8pm

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), May 13, 2006

Subjects:

Television movies

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...S on This Week MOVIE OF THE WEEK an Imaginary Friendship Leads Little Emily, Played...Fanning, into a Dark and Dangerous World HIDE AND SEEK SATURDAY, SKY MOVIES 1,8pm. A lot of kids have imaginary friends, so when single dad David Callaway...budget sci-fi thriller War of the Worlds, alongside Tom Cruise. Here she manages...
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THE DEALER FROM DOWN UNDER; the Art World Is a Dirty Business, and No One Knows It Better Than Simon Lee. in His Short but Eventful Career, He's Been Defrauded by a Brazilian Polo Player and Bought an Imaginary Bacon. but He's Still in the Picture as One of London's Top Dealers Says William Cash

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 9, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...DEALER FROM DOWN UNDER; the Art World Is a Dirty Business, and No...Brazilian Polo Player and Bought an Imaginary Bacon. but Hes Still in the...toughened me up about the art world, he says. I became more unsentimental...wealthiest collectors in the world. The Gimpel family had amassed...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: imaginary worlds

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Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the supernatural, his works are frequently set in wholly imaginary worlds and involve myths and legends of his own making. Lord Dunsanys...as modernism claimed literary taste in the years following World War I. See his selected tales in In the Land of Time (2004...
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Kepler's Laws

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...planet increases as its distance from the sun decreases. If an imaginary line is drawn from the sun to the planet, the line will sweep...earlier work. The third law appeared in 1619 in Harmony of the Worlds. Keplers Foretelling of the Law of Gravity Kepler believed...
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Amusement Park

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...differ from circuses , carnivals , and worlds fairs (see exposition ) in that parks...parks, are designed to evoke distant or imaginary locales and/or eras, such as the Wild...traditional amusement park. Walt Disney World, opened near Orlando, Fla., in 1971, is the most popular theme park in the world; it draws over 40 million visitors annually...
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Power, Electric

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...example, although the energy dissipated as lightning exceeds the worlds demand for electricity by a large factor, lightning has not...which creates the impression that they actually do. This "imaginary power" or "phantom power" is called reactive power. It...

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