Make Believe

Author : Derrick Jensen
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603581837

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The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen Pdf

Derrick Jensen takes no prisoners in The Culture of Make Believe, his brilliant and eagerly awaited follow-up to his powerful and lyrical A Language Older Than Words. What begins as an exploration of the lines of thought and experience that run between the massive lynchings in early twentieth-century America to today's death squads in South America soon explodes into an examination of the very heart of our civilization. The Culture of Make Believe is a book that is as impeccably researched as it is moving, with conclusions as far-reaching as they are shocking.

Author : Susan Linn
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781595586568

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The Case For Make Believe by Susan Linn Pdf

In The Case for Make Believe, Harvard child psychologist Susan Linn tells the alarming story of childhood under siege in a commercialized and technology-saturated world. Although play is essential to human development and children are born with an innate capacity for make believe, Linn argues that, in modern-day America, nurturing creative play is not only countercultural—it threatens corporate profits. A book with immediate relevance for parents and educators alike, The Case for Make Believe helps readers understand how crucial child’s play is—and what parents and educators can do to protect it. At the heart of the book are stories of children at home, in school, and at a therapist’s office playing about real-life issues from entering kindergarten to a sibling’s death, expressing feelings they can’t express directly, and making meaning of an often confusing world. In an era when toys come from television and media companies sell videos as brain-builders for babies, Linn lays out the inextricable links between play, creativity, and health, showing us how and why to preserve the space for make believe that children need to lead fulfilling and meaningful lives.

Author : Yael Navaro-Yashin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352044

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The Make-Believe Space by Yael Navaro-Yashin Pdf

Looks at the Turkish territory of Northern Cyprus, a self-defined state, which is actually imaginary (because it is only recognized by Turkey). This title examines the sense of haunted property and objects lost and gained in the partition, along with people's relation to the fictive remapping of places and history by this new state.

Author : Holly Haynes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520236509

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The History of Make-Believe by Holly Haynes Pdf

"In The History of Make-Believe, Holly Haynes acutely queries the relationship of historiography, historical reality, and symbolic representations of lived historical processes. This is a serious book, informed by wide reading, and full of startlingly original insights on some of the most prominent and significant themes in Tacitus’s works. Indeed, it deserves close attention by anyone interested in the political and social strategies of high Imperial Rome."—T. Corey Brennan, author of The Praetorship in the Roman Republic "In Tacitus the historical truth is conveyed in literary truth-telling. Instead of leaving the two separated as we do, Holly Haynes shows that Tacitus put them together in what she calls the combination ‘make-believe.’ Her book shines with originality and intelligence while opening the way to Tacitus’s canny wisdom."—Harvey Mansfield, author of Machiavelli's Virtue

Author : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775560814

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Molly Make-Believe by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Pdf

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but that adage is put to its test in Molly Make-Believe, a charming romance novel from Eleanor Hallowell Abbott. When up-and-coming businessman Carl Stanton falls ill and is prescribed weeks of bed rest, his fiancee Cornelia decides to go ahead with her plans to visit relatives in the South. A flurry of love letters follow -- but their true provenance leads the ailing Carl down an unexpected path.

Author : Leonard S. Marcus
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Children
ISBN : 0395674077

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Minders of Make-believe by Leonard S. Marcus Pdf

Marcus offers this animated history of the visionaries--editors, illustrators, and others--whose books have transformed American childhood and American culture.

Author : Elanor Best
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1789473942

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Super Cute Activity Book by Elanor Best Pdf

A super-cute activity book with 3-D felt stickers and card press-outs! Come and meet the adorable characters and sweet friends in this super-cute activity book. From honeycomb mazes and pretty puzzles, to sweet scenes to search and pictures to color, there's something for everyone. At the back of the book there are cute card press-outs to make and create. With your very own 3-D felt stickers to use in the book or wherever you want!

Author : Diana Athill
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847087065

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Make Believe by Diana Athill Pdf

In Make Believe, Diana Athill, acclaimed author of Instead of a Letter and Stet, remembers her turbulent friendship with Hakim Jamal, a young black convert to the teachings of Malcolm X, whom she met in London in the late 1960s. Despite a desperately troubled youth, he became an eloquent spokesman for the black underclass, was Jean Seberg's lover and published a book about Malcolm X, before descending into a mania that had him believing he was God. A witness to his struggles, Diana Athill writes with her characteristic honesty about her entanglement with Jamal, Jamal's relationship with the daughter of a British MP, Gail Benson, and Jamal's, and separately Gail's, eventual murders.

Author : Jane Werner Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Children's poetry
ISBN : LCCN:50006582

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The Tall Book of Make-believe by Jane Werner Watson Pdf

Author : Lee Gowan
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307367440

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Make Believe Love by Lee Gowan Pdf

A stalker, a journalist and a librarian converge in small-town Saskatchewan in this brilliantly quirky and entertaining novel of love, obsession and the pursuit of fame. Broken Head has only one famous resident, and Joan Swift, the local librarian, is about to find out all about him. Darwin Andrew Goodwin hails from nearby Venus, Alberta, and is renowned for stalking Stephanie Rush, a Canadian-born starlet who lives in L.A. with her movie director husband. We learn all about Goodwin's obsession from Joan, and when Joan begins her own sultry affair with Jason Warwick, a new arrival from Toronto who is a reporter for the local newspaper, The Standard, the stage is set for a story filled with surprises. To spice up small-town life even more, Joan, who bears a striking resemblance to Stephanie Rush, agrees to impersonate the starlet as part of Jason's plan to write a book. Their hope is to entice Goodwin into telling his side of the story to the look-alike. And when Goodwin is charged and Joan shows up in court dressed as Stephanie, the town starts to buzz with rumour and speculation, and Goodwin's own extraordinary tale of love is told.

Author : David Dickinson
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780718848002

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Make-Believe by David Dickinson Pdf

I will tell you a story that will make you believe in God." No story can guarantee being able to do this. Yet novelists can tell stories that make us think about what we believe about God and why. Despite repeated predictions of the death of the novel, thousands of works of fiction are published and read in Britain each year. Although Western society is less religiously observant than it was, many 21st-century novelists persist in pursuing theological, religious and spiritual themes. Make-Believe seeks to explain why. With chapters offering analyses of novels from several genres - so-called literary fiction, historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy and dystopia - David Dickinson discusses a wide spectrum of novelists. Authors who are avowedly atheistic and authors who have a vested interest in perpetuating biblical stories are both featured. Well-known writers such as Rushdie, McEwan, McCarthy and Martell rub shoulders with some you may be meeting for the first time. Appealing to literature students and people who simply enjoy reading, whether Christian or not, this study of God in novels invites us to open our minds and allow aspects of our culture to shape our understanding of God and to change our ways of talking about the divine.

Author : Phil Turner,J. Tuomas Harviainen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319295534

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Digital Make-Believe by Phil Turner,J. Tuomas Harviainen Pdf

Make-believe plays a far stronger role in both the design and use of interfaces, games and services than we have come to believe. This edited volume illustrates ways for grasping and utilising that connection to improve interaction, user experiences, and customer value. Useful for designers, undergraduates and researchers alike, this new research provide tools for understanding and applying make-believe in various contexts, ranging from digital tools to physical services. It takes the reader through a world of imagination and intuition applied into efficient practice, with topics including the connection of human-computer interaction (HCI) to make-believe and backstories, the presence of imagination in gamification, gameworlds, virtual worlds and service design, and the believability of make-believe based designs in various contexts. Furthermore, it discusses the challenges inherent in applying make-believe as a basis for interaction design, as well as the enactive mechanism behind it. Whether used as a university textbook or simply used for design inspiration, Digital Make-Believe provides new and efficient insight into approaching interaction in the way in which actual users of devices, software and services can innately utilise it.

Author : Neil Van Leeuwen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Belief and doubt
ISBN : 9780674290334

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Religion As Make-Believe by Neil Van Leeuwen Pdf

Drawing on a range of hard evidence, Neil Van Leeuwen shows that the psychological mechanisms underlying religious belief are the same as those enabling imaginative play. He argues that we should therefore understand religious belief as a form of make-believe that people use to define their group identity and express the values sacred to them.

Author : K. Kroeber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781403983220

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Make Believe in Film and Fiction by K. Kroeber Pdf

This study provides the first detailed contrast between the experiences of reading a novel and watching a movie. Kroeber shows how fiction evokes morally inflected imagining, and how movies reveal through magnification of human movements and expression subjective effects of complex social changes.

Author : George Wells
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812691887

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Belief and Make-Believe by George Wells Pdf

The central question this book addresses is: why do so many people swallow the doctrines of religion? Following an attempt to analyze the nature of belief, it considers the Bible as a basis for religious belief and explores the conceptual difficulties in the New Testament view of humans.