Layered Reality


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Layered Reality is a candid dialogue between a truth seeker, a semi-fictional character who personifies the author, and a highly evolved channelled spirit entity, Zachariah.




Multi-Layered Reality


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Multi-Layered Reality is a non-fiction book that provides a comprehensive perspective of reality. It provides a New Age belief system that offers answers to the most fundamental questions that all religions attempt to answer. The Multi-Layered Reality (MLR) view of the universe integrates key consensus beliefs from the world's major religions with those of science, forming a new belief system that is more comprehensive than that found in existing religions. MLR is the most inclusive view of physical and metaphysical reality in that it considers all significant metaphysical and paranormal phenomena that are supported by a preponderance of evidence as real and as part of the reality model. The MLR model is a layered one of multiple layers of physical and metaphysical reality. The MLR belief system should be helpful to all individuals that are seeking alternatives to traditional religions, and also to those that would like to supplement their present religion with an open and progressive worldview. Traditional belief systems are generally tied to the past, and are often in conflict with modern science and are not open to modern day evidence of metaphysical and paranormal phenomena. New systems that accept the existence of intelligent design but are not tied to a particular religion are needed. The Multi-Layered Reality belief system is for the 21st Century and beyond.




Mapping Reality


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Using the insights of evolutionary epistemology, the author develops a new naturalist realist methodology of science, and applies it to the conceptual, practical, and ethical problems of the social sciences.




Reality Media


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How augmented reality and virtual reality are taking their places in contemporary media culture alongside film and television. T This book positions augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) firmly in contemporary media culture. The authors view AR and VR not as the latest hyped technologies but as media—the latest in a series of what they term “reality media,” taking their places alongside film and television. Reality media inserts a layer of media between us and our perception of the world; AR and VR do not replace reality but refashion a reality for us. Each reality medium mediates and remediates; each offers a new representation that we implicitly compare to our experience of the world in itself but also through other media. The authors show that as forms of reality media emerge, they not only chart a future path for media culture, but also redefine media past. With AR and VR in mind, then, we can recognize their precursors in eighteenth-century panoramas and the Broadway lights of the 1930s. A digital version of Reality Media, available through the book’s website, invites readers to visit a series of virtual rooms featuring interactivity, 3-D models, videos, images, and texts that explore the themes of the book.




One to One


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For years I've been telling friends about the therapeutic powers of the act of writing. Now at last I have a book that I can recommend.—Judith Guest, author of Ordinary People




Improving Education


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Stimulated by late-1990s debate in the UK on quality, effectiveness and usefulness of educational research (reports by OFSTED, DFEE and NFER), this book shows how to improve research, combining principles and practice, and offers case studies from primary, secondary, tertiary and adult sectors>




Augmented Reality Art


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This is the third edition of the first ever book to explore the exciting field of augmented reality art and its enabling technologies. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with 9 new chapters included. As well as investigating augmented reality as a novel artistic medium, the book covers cultural, social, spatial and cognitive facets of augmented reality art. It has been written by a virtual team of 33 researchers and artists from 11 countries who are pioneering in the new form of art, and contains numerous colour illustrations showing both classic and recent augmented reality artworks. Intended as a starting point for exploring this new fascinating area of research and creative practice, it will be essential reading not only for artists, researchers and technology developers, but also for students (graduates and undergraduates) and all those interested in emerging augmented reality technology and its current and future applications in art.




Hypersex


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Warning: this book contains strong adult content. What is hypersex? Is it the future of human sexuality? Enter the bizarre world of hyperreality where the reality principle is finally abolished. This is the true Matrix. How does the extreme sexual creed of the Marquis de Sade relate to the Jewish religion? Are the Jews a race of extreme masochists? Read about Sade's extraordinary depiction of the sexual conduct of the Pope and what he got up to behind the sacred altar of St Peter's Basilica. Read about Nietzsche's doctrine of eternal recurrence, about the Society of the Spectacle in which we all now live, and about the bizarre conspiracy theories of the ilk of David Icke. Welcome to the truth. Welcome to the world of the Pythagorean Illuminati, the oldest secret society in the world. Do not read this book if you are an Abrahamist or conspiracy theorist. This material is for radical freethinkers only.




Geography and Ethics


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This book represents a landmark exploration of the common terrain of geography and ethics. Drawing together specially commissioned contributions from distinguished geographers across the UK, North America and Australasia, the place of geography in ethics and of ethics in geography is examined through wide-ranging, thematic chapters. Geography and Ethics is divided into four sections for discussion and exploration of ideas: Ethics and Space; Ethics and Place; Ethics and Nature and Ethics and knowledge, all of which point to the rich interplay between geography and moral philosophy or ethics.




Understanding Audiences


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The history of audience research tells us that the relationship between the media and viewers, readers and listeners is complex and requires multiple methods of analysis. In Understanding Audiences, Andy Ruddock introduces students to the range of quantitative and qualitative methods and invites his readers to consider the merits of both. Understanding Audiences: demonstrates how - practically - to investigate media power; places audience research - from early mass communication models to cultural studies approaches - in their historical and epistemological context; explores the relationship between theory and method; concludes with a consideration of the long-running debate on media effects; includes exercises which invite readers to engage with the practical difficulties of conducting social research.