"Mapping New York" (Black Dog Publishing, $49.95) provides an intriguing and fanciful overview, ranging from a 1642 survey of the original land grants by the Dutch West India Company to the Commissioners Plann of 1811, which established the street grid, to an imagined aerial vision of how New York would look in 400 years if it were reshaped by sustainable development.
That Sinophobia in Zambia regularly expressed itself in all sorts of fanciful ways, ranging from false rumors that China was exporting cans of human flesh to be sold as food in Zambia or that China had planned to take over the country's national television broadcaster.
BEL BORBA AQUI A profile of Bel Borba, a public artist who has been decorating Salvador, Brazil, with a range of fanciful images.
Western commentators have offered the normal range of fanciful explanations for this: to replace the fading US presence in the region, or to put pressure on the Saudis over oil prices.
His use of fantasy, ranging from fanciful fairy tales to highly suggestive stories of the macabre and supernatural, served as inspiration to several operatic composers.
These shorts ranged from fanciful to educational; from mini-documentaries to impressive displays of imagination.
These tales, from all parts of the continent, have fanciful, witty illustrations by a range of artists.
These illustrations range from the fanciful (legions of heavy-headed flowers that bear no relation to any earthly variety) to the bizarre (naked and possibly pregnant women, frolicking in what look like amusement-park waterslides from the fifteenth century).
These range from the fanciful -- a section where children can write down the worst names they've ever been called and put them through a paper shredder -- to the practical, like choosing from a series of possible strategies and learning what the outcome is when the child in a videotaped scene pursues that option.
The maps sketched by this new generation of cartographers range from the useful to the fanciful and from the simple to the elaborate.
