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The literature of the Romantic era is steeped in the politics of revolution and reaction. This volume looks at first and second generation poets such as Wordsworth, Blake, Byron and Shelley and explores their engagement with the turbulent history of their times. Other genres such as drama, fiction and travel writing are also discussed, with close attention paid to texts by Walpole, Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft. Combining thematic analysis with modern critical perspectives, the volume also includes key contextual sections focusing on Imagination, Truth and Reason, Heroes and Anti-heroes...

"Discovering the Healer Within "explains the interconnectedness of the mind, body, and spirit. The material within will shed light on why one man is happy, healthy, loving, and successful, while another struggles.

The happy, healthy, loving, and successful man knows how to use the Universal Law of Attraction. He understands how to use his conscious thoughts to design his life.

This man understands and does not fear illness or disease, because he understands the self-healing functions of the physical body and what to do when illness and disease occur.

Finally, this man understands...

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Design, Specification, and Verification of Interactive Systems, DSV-IS 2005. The 20 revised full papers, 1 keynote paper, and 4 summaries of group discussions are organized in topical sections on teams and groups, sketches and templates, away from the desktop, migration and mobility, analysis tools, model-based design processes and tools, and group discussions.

This impressive book is lively, inspiring and innovative. Andrea Gilroy's energetic enthusiasm for her subject is infectious. She...

Have you been thwarted in your quest to find your life's passion?

Has something or someone (maybe even yourself) blocked you from discovering: who you really are? your gift? what you seek?

Then you need The Holy Hand Grenade.

Napoleon Hill said, "Desire is the starting point of all achievement." Solomon said, "Hope deferred makes the heart grow sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life." Yet many people go through life with no real hope, desire, or passion and have hearts that are sick. It doesn't have to be that way.

Jesus said, "I came that you may have life, and have it...

Frank D. Gilroy is a compulsive diarist who wrote "I Wake Up Screening "while he made four independent feature filmseach accorded three stars in Leonard Maltin s "TV Movies and Video Guide"with" "a total investment of two million dollars (for all four films ).

These intimate logs of the making of "Desperate Characters, Once in Paris, The Gig, "and "The Luckiest Man in the World "show clearly that a film school that doesn t include in its curriculum discussions of negotiating with the Teamsters and of raising money as independent producers is leaving out vital parts of the filmmaking...

Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new understanding of W. E. B. Du Bois' intellectual and political legacy. At a time of economic crisis, environmental degradation, ongoing warfare, and heated debate over human rights, how should we reassess the changing place of black culture?

Gilroy considers the ways that consumerism has diverted African Americans' political and social aspirations. Luxury goods and branded items, especially the automobile--rich in symbolic value and the promise of individual freedom--have restratified society, weakened citizenship, and diminished the collective...

This book explores the significance of flight to Romantic literature. Although the Romantic movement and the age of ballooning coincided, there has been a curious and long-time tendency to forget that flight was not impossible during this period. This study details the importance of this new technology to Romantic authors, primarily English Romantic poets. It combines accounts of the exploits and experiences of early balloonists with references to Romantic texts, using ballooning lore to illuminate a range of Romantic writings. The balloonists are seen as not just supplying these writers...

Paul Gilroy's After Empire - in many ways a sequel to his classic study of race and nation, There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack - explores Britain's failure to come to terms with the loss of its empire and pre-eminent global standing.

Drawing on texts from the writings of Fanon and Orwell to Ali G. and The Office, After Empire shows that what we make of the country's postcolonial opportunity will influence the future of Europe and the viability of race as a political category.

Taking the political language of the post 9/11 world as a new...

This impressive book is lively, inspiring and innovative. Andrea Gilroy's energetic enthusiasm for her subject is infectious. She...