All Worlds

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

British Columbia -- the last temperate part of the New World to be mapped -- has long conjured up images of Utopia, a word that comes from the Greek no place. Indeed, utopian experiments started springing up soon after the first European explorers passed through.In All Possible Worlds, Justine Brown explores the attraction BC holds for utopian thinkers. She tells the stories of some of their idealistic communities: Metlakatla; Sointula; the Doukhobor towns in the Kootenays; the strange empires of Brother Twelve and other Gulf Island messiahs; the artist and hippie communes of the Sixties and Seventies; and much more.

John Doe and his infant daughter, Jane, appeared on the steps of the Manor the night the earthquakes started and the gateway to the Otherworlds closed. The people on the remote island of Bluehaven have despised them ever since, blaming Jane and her father for their exile. Fourteen years after that night, the largest earthquake yet strikes. The Manor awakens, dragging John into its labyrinth. Accompanied by a pyromaniac named Violet and a trickster named Hickory, Jane must rescue her father and defeat an immortal villain who is trying to harness the mythical power of the Manor.

Up-to-date and comprehensive study of a major topic in philosophy The first critical account of forty years of literature on possible worlds A huge topic in analytic philosophy especially in the past twenty-five yeasr and one of the major problems in philosophy as a whole This is the only book available that will introduce the topic to students in philosophy John Divers has taught possible worlds for many years