Michael Williams

the need for reform in the Irish legal system

Serving the people?

Galen Beknighted (Dragonlance Heroes II : Vol.3)

Galen, also known as the Weasel, joins forces with Sir Bayard Brightblade, and Agion, a centaur, in their attempts to defeat the Scorpion, an evil magician

Weasel's Luck

Margaret Weis

Tracy Hickman

Finally armed with dragonlances, a group of heroes, composed of a knight, barbarian, dwarf, and half-elf, face a deadly showdown with the evil dragons and Takhisis, the Queen of Darkness.

Dragons of Spring Dawning

Just down the road from their families, Deo and his friends play soccer in the dusty fields of Zimbabwe, cheered on by Deo's older brother, Innocent. It is a day like any other... until the soldiers arrive and Deo and Innocent are forced to run for their lives, fleeing the wreckage of their village for the distant promise of safe haven in South Africa. Along the way, they face the prejudice and poverty that greet refugees everywhere, but eventually Deo finds hope, joining dozens of other homeless, displaced teens on the World Cup Street Soccer team--a possible ticket out of extreme hardship to a new life. Captivating and timely, Now Is the Time for Running is a staggering story of survival that follows Deo and his brother on a transformative journey that will stay with readers long after the last page.

Now Is the Time for Running

Morten Kelstrup

International Relations Theory and the Politics of European Integration focuses on the roles of community, power and security, within the European Union. It features contributions from highly respected international scholars, and covers subjects such as: · sovereignty and European integration · the EU and the politics of migration · the internationalisation of military security · the EU as a security actor · money, finance and power · the quest for legitimacy with regards to EU enlargement.

Power, Security and Community

International Relations Theory and the Politics of European Integration

Edward Lamberti

This edited collection explores how Luca Guadagnino's film Call Me by Your Name speaks powerfully to questions of contemporary sexual identity and romance. Adapted by James Ivory from André Aciman's novel and directed by Luca Guadagnino, the film Call Me by Your Name has been passionately received among audiences and critics ever since its 2017 release. A love story between seventeen-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and graduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer) and set in 1983 "somewhere in northern Italy," Call Me by Your Name presents a gay relationship in a romantic idyll seemingly untroubled by outside pressures, prejudices, or tragedy. While this means it offers audiences welcome opportunities to swoon in front of an LGBTQ+ romance that equals classic heterosexual romances onscreen, its relevance or political significance today may not be immediately apparent. This edited collection points out the ways in which the film is abundantly infused with narrative, thematic, and stylistic elements that can be interpreted as speaking powerfully to contemporary audiences on questions of sexual identity. How does this love story explore wider tensions that exist between the specific and the general, between the open and the hidden, and between the past and the present? The contributors to this collection provide stimulating and contemplative responses to this question.

Perspectives on the Film

Call Me by Your Name

A richly observed and researched personal history of the bygone age of Britain's railways. SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks, or explore an old tunnel leading to...well, who knows where? Listen hard. Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment? These are the ghosts of "The Trains Now Departed." They are the railway lines, and services that ran on them that have disappeared and gone forever. Our lost legacy includes lines prematurely axed, often with a gripping and colourful tale of their own, as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard, and grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball. Then there are the lost delights of train travel, such as haute cuisine in the dining car, the grand expresses with their evocative names, and continental boat trains to romantic far-off places. "The Trains Now Departed" tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain, vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age. In his personal odyssey around Britain Michael Williams tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks, the yarns of the men and women who operated them and the colourful trains that ran on them. It is a journey into the soul of our railways, summoning up a magic which, although mired in time, is fortunately not lost for ever."

Sixteen Excursions Into the Lost Delights of Britain's Railways

The Trains Now Departed

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." - Buddha Reject stress, accept change, and prepare to radiate positive energy with the natural healing powers of the chakras. In the Eastern world, the powerful healing properties of the chakras and their awakened state have been known for generations. In the Western world, however, the awareness of their properties and purpose are still relatively limited. Simply speaking, the chakras are specific points in your body through which energy flows. The unlocking and empowering of these chakras allow for a more balanced, healthy, and harmonious life. Undertaking a regimen of exercises geared towards the empowerment of the Chakras will enable you to unlock these energy streams as a means of combating the stresses, fears, and doubts that plague our everyday lives. If you're ready to become a more centered and harmonious human being, then look no further than this introductory guide With the wisdom of meditation guru and author Michael Williams, you will be able to explore the different chakras and their part in completing a healthy, whole human being. With various exercises geared toward each chakra, this guidebook acts as a toolbox for empowering your chakras through meditation and practice. Here's what to expect in the beginner's guide: Introduction to the Chakras Reasons for suffering Breathing techniques to aid meditation Preparations for meditation Guide to the meditation process Exercises for each chakra Diet guide to promote healing and wellness Overview of spiritual awakening And much, much more! Organized, informative, and inspiring, this introductory guide serves as a roadmap to peace and harmony through the revolutionary and natural wisdom of the chakras. Born from an ancient tradition of meditation and inner exploration, the practice of healing through chakra empowerment is a natural way to combat the crippling evils of stress, anxiety, and fear. Take back control of the good energy in your life and reap the benefits of a calm, balanced mind through the empowerment of your chakras. Take the first step to improving your life and grab your copy of Chakras for Beginners: Awaken Your Internal Energy and Learn to Radiate Positive Energy and Start Healing today!

Chakras for Beginners; Awaken Your Internal Energy and Learn to Radiate Positive Energy and Start Healing

Chakras

Craig L. Blomberg

Mark L. Strauss

Jeannine K. Brown

Kenneth L. Barker

The NIV Study Bible Essential Guide to Genesis is designed for personal or group study. It includes the full text of Genesis, book introduction, study notes and space for taking notes, alongside other study helps from the bestselling NIV Study Bible, Fully Revised Edition.

NIV Study Bible Essential Guide to Genesis, Paperback, Red Letter, Comfort Print

The NIV Study Bible Essential Guide to Matthew is designed for personal or group study. It includes the full text of Matthew, book introduction, study notes and space for taking notes, alongside other study helps from the bestselling NIV Study Bible, Fully Revised Edition.

NIV Study Bible Essential Guide to Matthew, Paperback, Red Letter, Comfort Print

My cornwall, by michael williams

Touching on the fields of philosophy, critical theory, cultural studies, and queer theory, Pervert-Schizoid-Woman critiques the organization of Western economy, language, and desire. Author Michael Williams seeks to promote alternative frameworks for a posthumanist theory and practice of perverse selfhood and sociality. In this study, he identifies the capitalist economic system as structured by scarcity and supply/demand dynamics, discerning the paradoxical accumulation of debt as the essence of the assumed scarcity in the financial system. He also uncovers the profound isomorphism between the economics of scarcity and the castration and lack at the center of the psychoanalytic interpretation of gender, sexuality, and desire, concluding that the essential negativity in the scarcity of capitalism, the absence in the structure of language, and the castration in the network of desire are the sources of the dysfunctions in Western systems of finance, expression, and gender and sexuality.

Pervert-Schizoid-Woman

Dragonlance Legends

Joseph T. Coyle

James E. Barrett

Translational neuroscience is at the heart of clinical advancement in the fields of psychiatry, neurology and neurodevelopmental disorders. Written and edited by leading scientists and clinicians, this is a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of this emerging strategy for developing more effective treatments for brain disorders. Introductory chapters bring together perspectives from both academia and industry, while subsequent sections focus on disease groups, including bipolar disorder and depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, substance abuse, autism, Alzheimer's disease, pain, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. Each section includes topical introductory and summary chapters, providing an overview and synthesis of the field. Translational Neuroscience: Applications in Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders is an important text for clinicians, scientists and students in academic settings, government agencies and industry, as well as those working in the fields of public health and the behavioural sciences.

Applications in Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Translational Neuroscience

When Frankie Opperman - surfer, rugby captain, and Helderkloof High's golden boy - is found drowned in the school pool, Jake Mulligan is called to investigate. He finds himself at the heart of a school in crisis, yet no one seems willing to help. Why the baffling silence from Frankie's former friends? Is the cool barrier put up by Frankie's recently-dumped girlfriend just her nature? When Jake turns to the flirtatious Diana Polesky, who seems to be courting expulsion, and then to the eccentric but much-loved English teacher, the investigations take an unexpected twist. Michael Williams's latest novel tells a tense and brilliantly choreographed story that weaves its way through school rivalry and racism, loyalty, betrayal, and initiation into young adulthood with extraordinary insight and realism.

The Eighth Man

Peter J. Anderson

George Ogola

In the face of the continuously changing challenges of the digital age, it is difficult for quality news journalism to survive on any significant scale if a means for adequately funding it is not available. This new study, a follow-up to 2007's The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, includes a comparative analysis of possible alternative business models that may save the future of the quality news business across the developed, intermediate, and developing worlds. Its detailed evaluation encompasses also the different ways in which wider key issues are affecting the prospects for quality news as a core ingredient of effectively working democracies. It focuses on the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, India, Kenya, and selected parts of the Arab World, providing a comprehensive cross-cultural survey of different approaches to addressing these various issues. To keep the study firmly rooted in the "real world" the contributors include distinguished practitioners as well as experienced academics.

A Cross-Continental Analysis

The Future of Quality News Journalism

In Unnatural Doubts, Michael Williams constructs a masterly polemic against the very idea of epistemology, as traditionally conceived. Although philosophers have often found problems in efforts to study the nature and limits of human knowledge, Williams provides the first book that systematically argues against there being such a thing as knowledge of the external world. He maintains that knowledge of the world consitutes a theoretically coherent kind of knowledge, whose possibility needs to be defended, only given a deeply problematic doctrine he calls "epistemological realism." The only alternative to epistemological realism is a thoroughgoing contextualism.

Epistemological Realism and the Basis of Scepticism

Unnatural Doubts

British Academy

Ron Johnston

Professor Ron Johnston

Professor of Geography Michael Williams

These essays trace the evolution of British geography as an academic discipline during the last hundred years, and stress how the study of the world we live in is fundamental to an understanding of its problems and concerns. Never before has such an ambitious and wide-ranging review been attempted, and never before has it been done with so much knowledge and passion. The principal themes covered in this volume are those of environment, place and space, and the applied geography of map-making and planning. The volume also addresses specific issues such as disease, urbanization, regional viability, and ethics and social problems. This lively and accessible work offers many insights into the minds and practices of today's geographers.

A Century of British Geography

John Winslade

This book provides practical strategies for teaching conflict resolution skills that help prevent bullying and violence for a safe and peaceful school environment.

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