reality

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The matter myth

dramatic discoveries that challenge our understanding of physical reality
1992
Gives an overview of the latest developments in physics which have challenged earlier scientific concepts.

Relativity

2013
"If Ruby Wright could have her way, her dad would never have met and married her stepmother Willow, her best friend George would be more than a friend, and her mom would still be alive. Then she discovers a tree in the middle of an Ohio cornfield with a wormhole to nine alternative realities. But is there such a thing as a perfect world? What is Ruby willing to give up to find out?"--Provided by publisher.

Oh my goddess!

sympathy for the devil
1998
Keiichi Morisato gets dragged through an array of alternate universes when the goddess Skuld arrives at his home and has trouble debugging the mighty astral computer that maintains reality.

Mindbenders

stories to warp your brain
2000
Presents ten short stories of twisted reality.

Violent cases

words & pictures
2003
The lines between reality and imagination blur as the narrator recalls his coming-of-age and how he was affected by the stories told to him by an old osteopath who claimed to have treated the gangster Al Capone.

Simulacra and simulation

1994
Jean Baudrillard presents his theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure.

MirrorMask

2005
Helena, a young girl raised by circus performers who desires a normal life, finds herself fighting to get her unique life back when she is lured into a magical, chaotic otherworld and replaced by a doppelganger at home. Illustrated with original art and images from the 2005 motion picture.

The magic of reality

how we know what's really true
2011
Examines many different natural phenomena in the world, such as how stuff is made of, how old is the universe, and what causes tsunamis, and other topics.

Reality, religion, and the mind

2012
Examines metaphysics, the study of reality, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of the mind and outlines the different ways philosophers have attempted to answer the many questions that are posed in the study of metaphysics.

It's a bird--

2004
Presents a graphic novel in which Steve, a freelance comic book writer, is offered the chance to chronicle the adventures of Superman, but a long-kept family secret keeps him from being able to reconcile reality with a hero who always steps in to save the day.

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