Author: Patrick Makin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916180567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Where would you go if you had a magic carpet? Take the journey of a lifetime and explore 19 real-life, off-limits locations... Whether you'd prefer to visit a volcano, do some supernatural sightseeing in Area 51, take a tour of the remotest island on Earth, or plunder the Secret Archives of the Vatican, the magic carpet will cover the four corners of the globe - and reveal hundreds of hidden secrets in between!
The Magic Carpet's Guide to Earth's Forbidden Places
Author: Patrick Makin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916180567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Where would you go if you had a magic carpet? Take the journey of a lifetime and explore 19 real-life, off-limits locations... Whether you'd prefer to visit a volcano, do some supernatural sightseeing in Area 51, take a tour of the remotest island on Earth, or plunder the Secret Archives of the Vatican, the magic carpet will cover the four corners of the globe - and reveal hundreds of hidden secrets in between!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916180567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Where would you go if you had a magic carpet? Take the journey of a lifetime and explore 19 real-life, off-limits locations... Whether you'd prefer to visit a volcano, do some supernatural sightseeing in Area 51, take a tour of the remotest island on Earth, or plunder the Secret Archives of the Vatican, the magic carpet will cover the four corners of the globe - and reveal hundreds of hidden secrets in between!
Earth's Magic Places
Author: Tomáš Míček
Publisher: Koenemann
ISBN: 9783741921582
Category : Landforms
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The photographer Tomás Mícek focuses on magical places brought forth by that great artist Mother Nature, places whose fantastic formations can most certainly compete with our sacred buildings and spaces.
Publisher: Koenemann
ISBN: 9783741921582
Category : Landforms
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The photographer Tomás Mícek focuses on magical places brought forth by that great artist Mother Nature, places whose fantastic formations can most certainly compete with our sacred buildings and spaces.
Outside Lies Magic
Author: John R. Stilgoe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802775632
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
As striking in its originality as it is revealing, this fascinating pocket history of the American landscape dissects our visual surroundings, transforming the way we see everything--from the electrical grid over our heads to old railroad lines, from fences and lawns to main streets, malls, and empty lots.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802775632
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
As striking in its originality as it is revealing, this fascinating pocket history of the American landscape dissects our visual surroundings, transforming the way we see everything--from the electrical grid over our heads to old railroad lines, from fences and lawns to main streets, malls, and empty lots.
Magic Places
Author: Pennie Brownlee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780908609574
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Magic Places presents parents and teachers with information about the nature of creativity, along with easy-to-follow suggestions for fostering the natural unfolding of each child's creativity. This popular book has been re written in 2007.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780908609574
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Magic Places presents parents and teachers with information about the nature of creativity, along with easy-to-follow suggestions for fostering the natural unfolding of each child's creativity. This popular book has been re written in 2007.
Place Attachment
Author: Irwin Altman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468487531
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In step with the growing interest in place attachment, this volume examines the phenomena from the perspective of several disciplines-including anthropology, folklore, and psychology-and points towards promising directions of future research.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468487531
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In step with the growing interest in place attachment, this volume examines the phenomena from the perspective of several disciplines-including anthropology, folklore, and psychology-and points towards promising directions of future research.
Ancient Magic and Ritual Power
Author: Paul Mirecki
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004283811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
This volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The essays are authored by leading scholars in the fields of Egyptology, ancient Near Eastern studies, the Hebrew Bible, Judaica, classical Greek and Roman studies, early Christianity and patristics, and Coptology. Throughout the book the essays examine the terms employed in descriptions of ancient magic. From this examination comes a clarification of magic as a polemical term of exclusion but also an understanding of the classical Egyptian and early Greek conceptions of magic as a more neutral category of inclusion. This book should prove to be foundational for future scholarly studies of ancient magic and ritual power. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004283811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
This volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The essays are authored by leading scholars in the fields of Egyptology, ancient Near Eastern studies, the Hebrew Bible, Judaica, classical Greek and Roman studies, early Christianity and patristics, and Coptology. Throughout the book the essays examine the terms employed in descriptions of ancient magic. From this examination comes a clarification of magic as a polemical term of exclusion but also an understanding of the classical Egyptian and early Greek conceptions of magic as a more neutral category of inclusion. This book should prove to be foundational for future scholarly studies of ancient magic and ritual power. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Person and Place
Author: Sabine Hess
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1845459393
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Concerned with contemporary notions of personhood and the relationship between persons and places, this book, presents a detailed insight into the Vanua Lavan’s engagement with modernity, and examines how they relate to the past, make sense of the present and anticipate the future. Marilyn Strathern's claim that the Melanesian person is a dividual by and large holds for the Vanua Lavan person. But Vanua Lavans have also been exposed to, and creatively engaged with, what can be summarised under the term ‘Western individualism’. The author draws together several themes, discourses and conversations which concern Vanuatu specifically, the Pacific as a wider geographic area but also theoretical fields in anthropology: the relevance and expressions of sociality through kinship, concepts of person, issues about land and cosmology, the kastom debate, and questions about continuity and change. In doing so she provides a snapshot of contemporary notions of personhood.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1845459393
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Concerned with contemporary notions of personhood and the relationship between persons and places, this book, presents a detailed insight into the Vanua Lavan’s engagement with modernity, and examines how they relate to the past, make sense of the present and anticipate the future. Marilyn Strathern's claim that the Melanesian person is a dividual by and large holds for the Vanua Lavan person. But Vanua Lavans have also been exposed to, and creatively engaged with, what can be summarised under the term ‘Western individualism’. The author draws together several themes, discourses and conversations which concern Vanuatu specifically, the Pacific as a wider geographic area but also theoretical fields in anthropology: the relevance and expressions of sociality through kinship, concepts of person, issues about land and cosmology, the kastom debate, and questions about continuity and change. In doing so she provides a snapshot of contemporary notions of personhood.
Magic Objects for Beginners
Author: Harry Eilenstein
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3753490857
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Magical items are mostly familiar from fantasy novels and fantasy movies, but they also exist "in real life." However, these real magic items are different from those that appear in the realm of fantasy. They are gateways to certain qualities, spirits, and deities, but not items that give a person a power they could not otherwise obtain. Such magical objects include talismans, magic rings, magic wands, voodoo dolls, and the spiritus familiaris (a self-made spirit), as well as statues, temples, sweat lodges, haunted houses, pyramids, power places, crop circles, and homeopathic globules. These magical objects are neither indispensable (you can achieve everything without them) nor useless (they can help with many things) - they are tools that can facilitate many things in magic.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3753490857
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Magical items are mostly familiar from fantasy novels and fantasy movies, but they also exist "in real life." However, these real magic items are different from those that appear in the realm of fantasy. They are gateways to certain qualities, spirits, and deities, but not items that give a person a power they could not otherwise obtain. Such magical objects include talismans, magic rings, magic wands, voodoo dolls, and the spiritus familiaris (a self-made spirit), as well as statues, temples, sweat lodges, haunted houses, pyramids, power places, crop circles, and homeopathic globules. These magical objects are neither indispensable (you can achieve everything without them) nor useless (they can help with many things) - they are tools that can facilitate many things in magic.
Places of the Imagination
Author: Dr Stijn Reijnders
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409494357
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Recent years have seen an explosive growth in the phenomenon of people visiting locations from popular novels, films or television series. Places of the Imagination presents a timely and insightful analysis of this form of media tourism, exploring the question of how best to explain the increasing popularity of media tourism within contemporary culture. Drawing on extensive empirical and interview material, this book examines the representation of landscapes in popular narratives that have inspired media tourism, whilst also investigating the effects over time of such tourism on local landscapes, and the processes by which tourists appropriate the landscape, experiencing and accommodating them into their imagination. Oriented around three central case studies of popular television detective shows, famous films and classic literature, Places of the Imagination develops a new theoretical understanding of media tourism. As such, it will appeal to sociologists and cultural geographers, as well as those working in the fields of media and cultural studies, popular and fan culture, tourism and the sociology of leisure.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409494357
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Recent years have seen an explosive growth in the phenomenon of people visiting locations from popular novels, films or television series. Places of the Imagination presents a timely and insightful analysis of this form of media tourism, exploring the question of how best to explain the increasing popularity of media tourism within contemporary culture. Drawing on extensive empirical and interview material, this book examines the representation of landscapes in popular narratives that have inspired media tourism, whilst also investigating the effects over time of such tourism on local landscapes, and the processes by which tourists appropriate the landscape, experiencing and accommodating them into their imagination. Oriented around three central case studies of popular television detective shows, famous films and classic literature, Places of the Imagination develops a new theoretical understanding of media tourism. As such, it will appeal to sociologists and cultural geographers, as well as those working in the fields of media and cultural studies, popular and fan culture, tourism and the sociology of leisure.
The Empty Place
Author: Olivia A Cole
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316449539
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A powerful and imaginative story about a girl fighting to find her way back home from a mind-bending land of the lost. When Henry’s father goes missing in the forest on her tenth birthday, her entire world shatters. The last thing she expects is for him to emerge from the trees exactly one year later, unharmed and bearing a gift for her—a strange necklace. Everyone says her father’s reappearance is a miracle, but Henry wants real answers to her questions. Where did her father go? How did he get back? And what’s the truth behind his gift? Wearing the necklace and carrying only a simple map, Henry enters the same forest that swallowed her father. But beyond the trees, she finds a world more incredible and dangerous than she ever imagined. It’s a place for all who are lost, and there’s no clear method of escape. As Henry follows in her father’s footsteps and searches for a way home, she discovers that the truth she’s seeking isn’t as simple as she hoped, and if she wants to leave this world, she’ll have to be braver than she’s ever been.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316449539
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A powerful and imaginative story about a girl fighting to find her way back home from a mind-bending land of the lost. When Henry’s father goes missing in the forest on her tenth birthday, her entire world shatters. The last thing she expects is for him to emerge from the trees exactly one year later, unharmed and bearing a gift for her—a strange necklace. Everyone says her father’s reappearance is a miracle, but Henry wants real answers to her questions. Where did her father go? How did he get back? And what’s the truth behind his gift? Wearing the necklace and carrying only a simple map, Henry enters the same forest that swallowed her father. But beyond the trees, she finds a world more incredible and dangerous than she ever imagined. It’s a place for all who are lost, and there’s no clear method of escape. As Henry follows in her father’s footsteps and searches for a way home, she discovers that the truth she’s seeking isn’t as simple as she hoped, and if she wants to leave this world, she’ll have to be braver than she’s ever been.