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Author : Francesco Berto,Mark Jago
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198812791
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Author : Stephen Coates,Alex Stetter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015049972246
"This book explores the ways in which real buildings have resulted from visionary ideas, and assesses the extent to which these buildings have changed the way people live. In three sections, the editors Stephen Coates and Alex Stetter have arranged key texts together with a selection of projects which illustrate the ideas, and the built realities which followed on from them." "In the first part, Hilary French explores the development of communitarian ideas, and the ways in which utopian thinking has generated new ideas for housing. The second section, with a major text by Joe Kerr, argues that the supposedly ideal housing devised by the proponents of Garden Cities has been Disneyfied and sold to wealthy Americans in a bizarre subversion of the American Dream. In the third section, Francois Penz and Maureen Thomas explain the influence of film on the development of visionary architecture, arguing that unbuilt projects have been just as important as those realised in three dimensions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Melissa Beattie,Ross P. Garner,Una McCormack
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443820462
The successful regeneration of Doctor Who in the twenty-first century has sparked unprecedented popular success and renewed interest within the academy. The ten essays assembled in this volume draw on a variety of critical approaches—from cultural theory to audience studies, to classical reception and musicology—to form a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-off series, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. With additional contributions from Andrew Pixley, Robert Shearman, Barnaby Edwards, and Matt Hills, the volume is intended to be accessible to everyone, from interested academics in relevant fields to the general public.
Author : Stephen Nicholas,Mike Tucker
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780062458254
An intimate, behind-the-curtains tour of the sets, costumes, spacecraft, alien planets, creatures, weapons, and gadgets used to create the stunning world of Doctor Who. From distant galaxies in the far-flung future, to ancient history on the planet Earth, Doctor Who is unique for the breadth of imaginative possibilities it offers the artists charged with bringing each episode to life. Mining the depths of the BBC archives, Stephen Nicholas and Mike Tucker have compiled this breathtaking collection of rare and never-before-published images that are interwoven with fascinating insights from the show’s writers. Showcasing the work of Doctor Who’s remarkable designers, Doctor Who: Impossible Worlds pays tribute to the care and attention to detail essential to creating the look of the show, from the characters themselves—including recurring villains like the Daleks or the Cybermen—to the smallest hand prop featured in the briefest of scenes, to the TARDIS console room and other regularly used sets. Doctor Who: Impossible Worlds explores how the art department works together with costumers and make-up and special effects artists to produce a coherent look for a diverse range of alien worlds; reveals how the artists’ relationship with the computer graphics department allows them to create locations far grander than possible in the real world; and shows how today’s creative artists have built upon the designs produced by their predecessors—the pioneers of the program’s “classic” era whose legacy has delighted audiences since 1963. Divided thematically, Doctor Who: Impossible Worlds examines the history of the program and its art and set design, and highlights how various re-occurring designs have evolved over time. Chock full of surprising, illuminating, and fascinating information, photographs, and trivia, Doctor Who: Impossible Worlds is essential for every Whovian, whether you're an established fan or are new to the show.
Author : Peter Chiykowski
Publisher : Chizine Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Flash fiction, Canadian
ISBN : 1771484675
Postcards From Impossible Worlds collects 88 dazzling micro-stories written as postcards from strange and beautiful worlds that run parallel to our own.
Author : John Divers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781134731619
The first up-to-date and comprehensive examination of all issues pertaining to realism about possible worlds. An invaluable introduction to the topic, it includes many original developments and insights.
Author : Mark Jago
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198709008
In this book the author presents a philosophical account of meaningful thought: in particular, how it is meaningful to think about things that are impossible.--Publisher's description.
Author : Raymond Bradley,Norman Swartz
Publisher : Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 091514459X
Sermons by a noted German theologian discuss what the Bible says about freedom, political power, fear, unity, and human rights
Author : Boris Christian Kment
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199604685
Argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in a common type of thought experiment, counterfactual reasoning, that allows us to investigate explanatory connections and is colsely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science.
Author : John Gribbin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262043236
“An elegant and accessible” investigation of quantum mechanics for non-specialists—“highly recommended” for students of the sciences, sci-fi fans, and anyone interested in the strange world of quantum physics (Forbes) Rules of the quantum world seem to say that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time and a particle can be in two places at once. And that particle is also a wave; everything in the quantum world can described in terms of waves—or entirely in terms of particles. These interpretations were all established by the end of the 1920s, by Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and others. But no one has yet come up with a common sense explanation of what is going on. In this concise and engaging book, astrophysicist John Gribbin offers an overview of six of the leading interpretations of quantum mechanics. Gribbin calls his account “agnostic,” explaining that none of these interpretations is any better—or any worse—than any of the others. Gribbin presents the Copenhagen Interpretation, promoted by Niels Bohr and named by Heisenberg; the Pilot-Wave Interpretation, developed by Louis de Broglie; the Many Worlds Interpretation (termed “excess baggage” by Gribbin); the Decoherence Interpretation (“incoherent”); the Ensemble “Non-Interpretation”; and the Timeless Transactional Interpretation (which theorized waves going both forward and backward in time). All of these interpretations are crazy, Gribbin warns, and some are more crazy than others—but in the quantum world, being more crazy does not necessarily mean more wrong.
Author : Bruno Ernst
Publisher : Evergreen
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Design
ISBN : UCSC:32106018973112
Author : Abel Quezada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Cartoons and caricatures
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023740066
"Brilliant satire by Mexico's leading cartoonist on the men, machines and madness of our modern civilization"--cover.
Author : Michio Kaku
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780385525442
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Inspired by the fantastic worlds of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Back to the Future, the renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of The God Equation takes an informed, serious, and often surprising look at what our current understanding of the universe's physical laws may permit in the near and distant future. Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships—the stuff of science fiction or potentially attainable future technologies? Entertaining, informative, and imaginative, Physics of the Impossible probes the very limits of human ingenuity and scientific possibility.
Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781624668494
This edition originally published by Berghahn Books. Schopenhauer's treatise on ethics is presented here in E. F. J. Payne’s definitive translation, based on the Hubscher edition (Wiesbaden, 1946-1950). This edition includes an Introduction by David Cartwright, a translator’s preface, biographical note, selected bibliography, and an index. For convenient reference to passages in Kant's work discussed by Schopenhauer, Academy edition numbers have been added.
Author : David Butler
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : PSU:000067809554
"Often dismissed as simple tales of sword and sorcery, fantasy is one of the fundamental impulses in filmmaking, a source of some of the most vivid and memorable films ever made that reaches far beyond the confines of a single genre. As well as some of the major genres, stylistic approaches and exponents of cinematic fantasy, from Georges Melies, Walt Disney, and Andrei Tarkovsky to contemporary fantasists such as Terry Gilliam and Peter Jackson. This volume focuses on fantasy's social function with case studies including The Thief of Baghdad (1924), Excalibur (1981), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03), and Bruce Almighty (2003). and interpretations. Taking in the popular and the experimental, subversive desires and reactionary dreams, this book is an engaging introduction to one of the vital energies in cinema." -- Book cover.