Book Description
A vigorous defence of a radical ontological pluralism that requires theism and is consistent with traditional Christianity.
Author : Mark S. McLeod-Harrison
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0773576487
A vigorous defence of a radical ontological pluralism that requires theism and is consistent with traditional Christianity.
Author : Susan Linn
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1595586563
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 : Maya Gotz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135607273
This volume attains a broader understanding of the role media plays in the development and flourishing of children's imaginations and creative abilities, through research on children from several countries.
Author : Leonard S. Marcus
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780395674079
Marcus offers this animated history of the visionaries--editors, illustrators, and others--whose books have transformed American childhood and American culture.
Author : Alma Gilbert
Publisher :
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780898159363
This affordable, over-sized paperback provides an unusual glimpse into artist Maxfield Parrish's life--particularly his relationship with model Sue Lewin. Black-and-white photos and full-color plates show how Lewin's simple poses became fully realized fantasies under the brush of the master. The text explores not only the artworks that emerged from the relationship, but also the scandal that ensured.
Author : Phil Turner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3319295535
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 : Holly Anna
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481486330
"Daisy Dreamer's totally true imaginary friend, Posey, invites her to explore his amazing world of make believe"--
Author : David Dickinson
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0718847997
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 : Lee Mendelson
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 1986-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781555780036
Snoopy writes a play for the gang and everybody works hard to make it a great success ... finally!
Author : Kendall L. Walton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674576032
Representations in visual arts and fiction play an important part in our lives and culture. Walton presents a theory of the nature of representation, which shows its many varieties and explains its importance. His analysis is illustrated with examples from film, art, literature and theatre.