In this supernatural thriller, Norah Benson (Shirley Mac Laine) is a wealthy woman living in Manhattan who keeps a watchful eye on her brother Joel (Perry King), who lives in a rough section of the East Village. When Joel begins acting strangely & playing too rough with the children, Norah begins to suspect that all is not right. After Joel is arrested for assaulting the custodian of his building, his girlfriend Carrie (Lisa Kohane) is found decapitated. Norah soon discovers that her brother has become involved with Santeria, a religion that combines voodoo with elements of Catholicism. This film predates ' The Exorcist' (1973) but deals with similar themes of possession & family trauma. ...

Meet Gurgazon the Unclean, the cuddliest little pit demon ever trapped in the Llewellyn-Vane House for Captured Spirits & Ghostly Curiosities. Ms Llewellyn-Vane is having a dinner party & with no table manners to speak of you can be sure Gurgazon will be on her worst behavior! ...

Gurgazon the Pit Demon has been welcomed, nurtured, fed, & complimented. Gurgazon can tolerate no more. The time has come, once & for all, for escape. The Lewellyn-Vane house has been mapped. The plans are laid out. The ghosts are ready. The only thing that still stands in their way is... the butler. But is Gurgazon prepared for him this time? ...

An in-depth analysis of possessive constructions in English in terms of " Cognitive Grammar", as developed by Ronald Langacker & others. The book also provides a wide-ranging critique of alternative analyses, especially those derived from the Chomskyan school. ...

Possibility is a philosophical treatise on the metaphysical concepts of possibility & necessity. Jubien rejects the idea of possible worlds, & starts instead the notion of a physical object & the positing of properties & relations. He has new things to say about such topics as essentialism, natural kinds, & proper names. ...

Represents a sample of the research conducted in the area of possible selves. This book also represents a variety of perspectives, & illustrates some of the different ways that possible selves are conceptualised, empirically examined & used in interventions. ...

Businessman George Barber (Tom Mc Camus) is discovered dead, with his head cut open & his brain removed, & the police are clueless as to how it all happened. A series of flashbacks shows us scenes from George's life, but it soon becomes clear that George lived not one life but many, arrayed across a number of possible worlds, & in each of these lives he loved a woman named Joyce (Tilda Swinton). The police eventually find George's brain in the laboratory of scientist Dr Kleber (Gabriel Gascon), where it is being subjected to some unusual experiments.. .. ...

Examines the claim that there is no fundamental distinction between fiction & history. This title asks whether these two possible worlds are in any way different from each other. To answer this question, it analyzes historical & literary texts to explore the connection between the postmodern theory of writing & the actual practice of it. ...