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Magic eye : a new way of looking at the world : 3D illusions /

Illusions in motion media archaeology of the moving panorama and related spectacles / by Huhtamo, Erkki

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Illusions in motion media archaeology of the moving panorama and related spectacles / by Huhtamo, Erkki

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Magical Marxism subversive politics and the imagination / by Merrifield, Andy

Table of Contents: “…The circulation of revolt : real and fictitious Marxism -- Living an illusion : beyond the reality of realism -- Subscribing to the imaginary party : notes on a politics of neo-communism -- Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling : activism and immateriality -- Militant optimism and the great escape from capitalism -- Macondo of the mind : imagination seizes power -- Butterflies, owls, and little gold fishes : conjuring up revolutionary magic.…”
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Magical Marxism subversive politics and the imagination / by Merrifield, Andy

Table of Contents: “…The circulation of revolt : real and fictitious Marxism -- Living an illusion : beyond the reality of realism -- Subscribing to the imaginary party : notes on a politics of neo-communism -- Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling : activism and immateriality -- Militant optimism and the great escape from capitalism -- Macondo of the mind : imagination seizes power -- Butterflies, owls, and little gold fishes : conjuring up revolutionary magic.…”
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Magic, faith, and healing : studies in primitive psychiatry today /

Argonauts of the western Pacific : an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea / by Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942

Argonauts of the western Pacific : an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea / by Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942

Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers / by Hagood, Taylor, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Induction : Joice Heth -- On secrecy, magic, and Black women playwrights -- The one-acts -- Exeunt : an illusion.…”
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Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers / by Hagood, Taylor, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Induction : Joice Heth -- On secrecy, magic, and Black women playwrights -- The one-acts -- Exeunt : an illusion.…”
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The rose & the ring : or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo / by Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863

The rose & the ring : or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo / by Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863

Vanities of the eye vision in early modern European culture / by Clark, Stuart

Table of Contents: “…Species : visions and values -- Fantasies : seeing without what was within -- Prestiges : illusions in magic and art -- Glamours : demons and virtual worlds -- Images : the reformation of the eyes -- Apparitions : the discernment of spirits -- Sights : King Saul and King Macbeth -- Seemings : philosophical scepticism -- Dreams : the epistemology of sleep -- Signs : vision and the new philosophy.…”
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Vanities of the eye vision in early modern European culture / by Clark, Stuart

Table of Contents: “…Species : visions and values -- Fantasies : seeing without what was within -- Prestiges : illusions in magic and art -- Glamours : demons and virtual worlds -- Images : the reformation of the eyes -- Apparitions : the discernment of spirits -- Sights : King Saul and King Macbeth -- Seemings : philosophical scepticism -- Dreams : the epistemology of sleep -- Signs : vision and the new philosophy.…”
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Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar by Tcherepashenets, Nataly

Table of Contents: “…Place in Borges's stories and the irony of revelation -- Familiar places, hidden challenges : revelation present and dissipated in "El Aleph" -- Dreaming in circles, facing the ruins : the mystery and limitations of the human self in "Las ruinas circulares" -- The illusion of power : the magic disc, human vulnerability, and the divine presence in "El disco" -- The infinite book : fear and longing -- Place as displacement in Cortázar's Hopscotch -- Towards the challenge and the refuge : Oliveira's Paris and the capital cities in nineteenth century novels -- Borges's voice in Cortázar's Buenos Aires -- Talita's dream : between Borgesean and Carnivalesque worlds -- The Carnivalesque city and the anxiety of alienation -- Oliveira's homelessness : displacement as "no placement" -- Fictional and 'real' places : convergences and divergences -- The 'exotic' or/and the 'familiar' : "Someone's land" and the traditions of literary utopia -- Challenging conventions and breaking illusions : the city and the language in 62 : modelo para armar -- Revisiting the Minotaur : heterotopia as place and mode of representation in Borges's "La casa de Asterion" -- Boarding the ship: the unresolved mystery of Cortázar's "Malcolm" -- Displacement, dreams and archive in Borges's essays -- Dreaming with Freud : displacement, art and magic in "El sueño de Coleridge" -- The repression of archive and the archivization of repression in "La muralla y los libros" -- Shaping the word : displacement and dialogical discourse in Borges's "La muralla y los libros" and in Kafka's "The Great Wall of China" -- Displacement and the divided self in Cortázar's stories -- Crossing the bridge : psychological division and the writing of discontent -- Beyond the door : rediscovering the multiple self -- Divided lives, overlapping spaces, and the impossibility of self-deception.…”
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Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar by Tcherepashenets, Nataly

Table of Contents: “…Place in Borges's stories and the irony of revelation -- Familiar places, hidden challenges : revelation present and dissipated in "El Aleph" -- Dreaming in circles, facing the ruins : the mystery and limitations of the human self in "Las ruinas circulares" -- The illusion of power : the magic disc, human vulnerability, and the divine presence in "El disco" -- The infinite book : fear and longing -- Place as displacement in Cortázar's Hopscotch -- Towards the challenge and the refuge : Oliveira's Paris and the capital cities in nineteenth century novels -- Borges's voice in Cortázar's Buenos Aires -- Talita's dream : between Borgesean and Carnivalesque worlds -- The Carnivalesque city and the anxiety of alienation -- Oliveira's homelessness : displacement as "no placement" -- Fictional and 'real' places : convergences and divergences -- The 'exotic' or/and the 'familiar' : "Someone's land" and the traditions of literary utopia -- Challenging conventions and breaking illusions : the city and the language in 62 : modelo para armar -- Revisiting the Minotaur : heterotopia as place and mode of representation in Borges's "La casa de Asterion" -- Boarding the ship: the unresolved mystery of Cortázar's "Malcolm" -- Displacement, dreams and archive in Borges's essays -- Dreaming with Freud : displacement, art and magic in "El sueño de Coleridge" -- The repression of archive and the archivization of repression in "La muralla y los libros" -- Shaping the word : displacement and dialogical discourse in Borges's "La muralla y los libros" and in Kafka's "The Great Wall of China" -- Displacement and the divided self in Cortázar's stories -- Crossing the bridge : psychological division and the writing of discontent -- Beyond the door : rediscovering the multiple self -- Divided lives, overlapping spaces, and the impossibility of self-deception.…”
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The Arbuthnot anthology of children's literature / by Arbuthnot, May Hill, 1884-1969

The Arbuthnot anthology of children's literature / by Arbuthnot, May Hill, 1884-1969

Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela The Revolutionary Petro-State / by Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter

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Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela The Revolutionary Petro-State / by Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter

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