Takes a look at the metaphysics & logic of possibility & reality, & illuminates them from a variety of perspectives. This collection features topics which include the history of philosophy as well as the semantics of possible worlds; logic, mathematics & computer science as well as literature & the media. ...

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.. .. ...

Features poems that imbue the physical world with human traits & human consciousness, the speakers imagining the landscapes of their days as alive with portentous meaning. This title

Includes:: poems mostly situated in the American Midwest & American South.

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Highlighting certain socio-economic & cultural trends, this exploration discloses the dynamics shaping contemporary lives of African Americans. This title presents an examination that gives voice to what the author has deemed 'post black' approaches to business, lifestyles, & religion that are nowhere else reflected as part of black life. ...

Patrick O' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master & Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the second book in the series. ...