The Imaginary World of

Explores the concept, and the 'imaginary world' surrounding Chaucer's "The House of Fame". This book contains an outline and discussion of the poem...

Reducere. Creating a unique, immersive setting one world at a timeA guide for authors, gamers, and hobbyistsThe Complete Art of World Building brings togethe...

DescriptionIn early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purp...

Reducere. The bible of Sasquatch/Bigfoot, reprinted in it's original form. With the explosion of knowledge taking place in recent decades, scientists are con...

DescriptionA celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary--one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages--an...

Reducere. The surprising and illuminating look at how Tolkien's love of science and natural history shaped the creation of his Middle Earth, from its flora a...

Reducere. If you're like the majority of US high school graduates, you have (1) studied Spanish at some point and (2) already forgotten most of it.It's time ...

In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a bold challenge t...

Reducere. Creating a unique, immersive setting one world at a timeA guide for authors, gamers, and hobbyistsThe Complete Art of World Building brings togethe...

Reducere. The bible of Sasquatch/Bigfoot, reprinted in it's original form. With the explosion of knowledge taking place in recent decades, scientists are con...

Reducere. Urville, the capital of a large island province, has a population of nearly 12 million, making it the one of the most significant cities in Europe....

Reducere. Visit the world's greatest museum without leaving your home through this imaginary art museum - a visually spectacular survey of world art for midd...

Reducere. Many readers drawn into the heroic tales of J. R. R. Tolkien's imaginary world of Middle-earth have given little conscious thought to the importanc...

DescriptionA new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions...

The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots ...

DescriptionWhy do climate and financial crises pose such extreme risks? And what does it take to respond effectively to those risks? Extreme weathe...

Reducere. This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the fa...

The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world of even mythical significance. The author takes a critical look ...

Visit the world's greatest museum without leaving your home through this imaginary art museum - a visually spectacular survey of world art for midd...

DescriptionThe complete collection of today's most talented animator. Sushio is a Japanese animator and illustrator who started his career as an an...

First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be ...

Reducere. Description: In a century that has taken us from the horse and buggy to the world wide web, science fiction has established itself as the literatur...

DescriptionThis is the first book to catalog comparative maps and tableaux that visualize the heights and lengths of the world's mountains and rive...

Reducere. The beloved fictional Harry Potter calls England his home. Though his world is imaginary, it includes many of England's actual landmarks. In this p...

Reducere. Creating a unique, immersive setting one place at a time. CREATING PLACES (THE ART OF WORLD BUILDING, #2) is a detailed how-to guide on inventing t...

A lyrical portrait of texture, light and the passage of time at the Suzhou gardens, from the author of The Intimacy of MakingIn the classical garde...

Reducere. This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary M...

Reducere. Ever since his first feature film I Killed My Mother premiered at Cannes, every film from the 29-year-old director Xavier Dolan has generated signi...

DescriptionBetween the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosoph...

Reducere. Florida has a long and rich history of pirates plundering its shores, cities, and shipping lanes. Tales of Florida pirates abound from Key West to ...

In From the Tricontinental to the Global South Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice mo...

Reducere. Creating a unique, immersive setting one culture at a timeA guide for authors, gamers, and hobbyistsWritten to help fantasy and science fiction sto...

Reducere. A value-priced omnibus of the first two novels of Daniel Abraham's classic Long Price Quartet--groundbreaking, unique fantasy of rare power and ori...

Reducere. COVID-19 has not only affected the United States but it has had an extreme impact on the world as a whole. Everyone needs a way of escaping the har...

This is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretic...

DescriptionGreek myths abound in images of beauty and perfection: charming gods, attractive goddesses, and handsome heroes, all of them standards o...

Reducere. Grizzly 399 is a well-known bear in North America. At age twenty-four-a ripe old age for a grizzly-she was thought to be too old to produce more of...

Reducere. 2017 Aurora Awards Best of the Decade FinalistIn novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North Am...

Have you ever imagined living in a fantasy world? Beautiful castles, islands floating in the air, a ride on an airship or resting with the fairies ...

Reducere. In Snoopy-family news, Spike is drafted into the Infantry (don't worry, it's only Snoopy's imaginary World War I army), and a brand new brother, ``...

Reducere. From Atlantis to Xanadu and beyond, this Baedeker of make-believe takes readers on a tour of more than 1, 200 realms invented by storytellers from ...

The Major Declamations, attributed to Quintilian in antiquity, exemplify the final stage of Greco-Roman rhetorical training, in which students deli...

The Major Declamations, attributed to Quintilian in antiquity, exemplify the final stage of Greco-Roman rhetorical training, in which students deli...

The Major Declamations, attributed to Quintilian in antiquity, exemplify the final stage of Greco-Roman rhetorical training, in which students deli...

Reducere. Madame Langlois Legacy: The Three Ingredients found in each chapter.HISTORICAL FICTION: VERIFIED EIGHTEENTH CENTURY RECIPES: RELEVANT HISTORICAL BA...

Reducere. The Lowcountry of South Carolina is where By Invitation Only begins at a barbecue engagement party thrown by Diane English Stiftel, her brother Flo...

"I can't tell anyone, so I tell everyone", wrote Frigyes Karinthy1 in one of his poems, lending his voice to all those who hide silently behind the...

Reducere. A fantastical crime mystery with a soupçon of magic that brings to mind not only Shelley's creation but A Confederacy of Dunces in its exploration ...

DescriptionThe practice of Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths College graduate Greg Rook (b.1971, London) explores the rich visual history, curio...

Perfect for lovers of visual art and music alike, Mausoleum of Imperfection is a collection of picturesque and satirical portraits made by the arti...

Up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the history of the Arthurian legend, using both fact and fiction to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of ...

Reducere. When Sara and Jamie discovered the seemingly ordinary artifacts, they sensed the pull of a dim and distant place. A world of mists and forests, of ...

Reducere. Creating a unique, immersive setting one life form at a time. CREATING LIFE (THE ART OF WORLD BUILDING, #1) is a detailed how-to guide on inventing...

The Martian Invasion Accounts of the War of the Worlds as told from celebrity eyewitnesses all around the globe - Jules Verne reports on the Martia...

Reducere. Driven is a travelogue in which the narrator reviews his life in the course of twenty four hours. A professor at a small college hopes for somethin...

Reducere. See the world in a completely new way as an esteemed mathematician shows how math powers the world--from technology to health care and beyond. Almo...

Reducere. Not far from the city there is an ancient wood, forgotten by the modern world, where Mystery walks in the moonlight. He wears the shape of a stag, ...

Reducere. Return to NewfordFamiliar to Charles de Lint's ever-growing audience as the setting of the novels Moonheart, Forests of the Heart, The Onion Girl, ...

Reducere. Powerful and resonant, Foxconned is both the definitive autopsy of the Foxconn fiasco and a dire warning to communities and states nationwide. When...

Reducere. A study of the new scientific understanding of consciousness and the mind as a fifth dimension of reality - Introduces the existence of a fifth dim...

Reducere. Welcome to Newford. . . .Welcome to the music clubs, the waterfront, the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Come ...

The Wonderful world of Corkle is an imaginary trip to a fanciful island where magical beings, called Porple, await the opportunity to help humans o...

Description Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already prod...

Programming Legend Charles Petzold unlocks the secrets of the extraordinary and prescient 1936 paper by Alan M. Turing Mathematician Alan Turing in...

Reducere. Ever wonder about the living beings who drive the wild untamable fires in the west? Here is a tale that makes pictures for us all of the powerful b...

DescriptionOne of Amazon's Best Books of December 2019 Fans of Jodi Picoult and Fredrik Backman will fall for this tenderhearted debut mystery foll...

Reducere. The year 2000, the end of the millennium: is this anything other than a mirage, the illusion of an end, like so many other imaginary endpoints whic...

Reducere. For readers of Roberto Bolaño's Savage Detectives and Muriel Spark's Loitering with Intent, this sublime and delightfully unhinged metaphysical mys...

Reducere. At Dr. Woo's Worm Hospital, Pearl and Ben are greeted with some bad news. A human has been spotted in the Imaginary World Dr. Woo suspects it might...

Reducere. PLANET SYLVIA was supposedly an imaginary world that the author created in his mind to escape his hardships and trauma of his rough youth and teena...