We all know what a bad day feels like; we all know what it feels like to be overwhelmed day to day with the ever-growing need to be all things to all people and wear that badge of busyness with honour... Well, it's time to take control, to get in the driving seat of your own life and live life on your terms.This book will take you on a journey of reflection and offer you skills and tools that will elevate and uncover your own unique potential. With no jargon, no tricks and no bull ...

For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly drawn on literary fiction for inspiration, adapting themes from authors like William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Patrick McGrath for the big screen; David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker? is the first book to explore how underground and mainstream fiction have influence...

This book traces the evolution of George Clooney's successful career, from his humble start as a television heartthrob to his current position as one of the most powerful figures in film making today.It can be said that George Clooney has crafted his artistic brand through a mixture of smart career choices of roles, carefully nuanced performances, and key relationships with directors. He is not just an accomplished actor but a major Hollywood player, serving as dir...

THE LAW OF ATTRACTION is the most powerful and the oldest of the universal laws. It derives its power from the state of your mind. For your mind, both conscious and subconscious, serves as an unseen magnet, which draws into your life circumstances and events according to your thoughts. In other words, you have to be extremely cautious in your thoughts as well as your deeds; they are being turned into reality. “How are you going to achieve them?” Do not worry about that. THE LAWS OF ATTRACT...

From the #1 Name in Professional CertificationGet on the fast track to becoming CompTIA RFID+ certified with this affordable, portable study tool. Inside, RFID experts guide you on your career path, providing expert tips and sound advice along the way. With an intensive focus on only what you need to know to pass the CompTIA RFID+ exam, this certification passport is your ticket to success on exam day.Featuring:Itineraries--List of official ex...

Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster’s essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects. It explores his key themes of identity; language and writing; metropolitan living and community; and storytelling and illusion. By tracing how Auster's representations of New York and city life have matured from a position of urban nihilism to qualified optimism, the book shows how the variety of forms he works in influences the treatment of his central concerns. The chap...

Danny Boyle is one of contemporary filmmaking's most exciting talents. Since the early 1990s he has steadily created a body of work that crosses genres and defies easy categorisation, from black humour (Shallow Grave), gritty realism (Trainspotting), screwball comedy (A Life Less Ordinary), cult adaptations (The Beach), and horror (28 Days Later), to science fiction (Sunshine), children's drama (Millions), love stories (Slumdog Millionaire) and tales of personal redemption (127 Hours). Unl...

This book argues that Scottish theatre has, since the late 1960s, undergone an artistic renaissance, driven by European Modernist aesthetics. Combining detailed research and analysis with exclusive interviews with ten leading figures in modern Scottish drama, the book sets out the case for the last half-century as the strongest period in the history of the Scottish stage. Mark Brown traces the development of Scottish theatre’s Modernist revolution from the arrival of influential theatre di...

He'll smoke you twice before you hit the ground."Blood soaked and terse, J.T. McCutchen is an epic anti-hero in the making.""It's about time the world gets a reefer-smoking, lotus-sitting, Texas Ranger bad ass!"WARNING:Fans of Walker, Texas Ranger may be offended by the action depicted within this digital short. Although, I'm sure Chuck Norris would personally approve.PRODUCT DESCRIPT...

The war defines the warrior. Born into a tribal war with India, trained as a black belt and street fighter from the age of nine, tortured and left for dead at the age of seventeen, Cosmo Zimik has an intimate, working knowledge of violence. During his long weeks of recovery, nursed to health by a total stranger deep in the jungle, the seed of the Empty Hand Revolution germinated in Cosmo's mind. Four years of underground fight clubs, multiple contracts on h...

Mark Brown is a theater critic for the Sunday Herald and lecturer in theater studies at the University of Strathclyde.

An argument that draws on canonical and contemporary thinkers in political theory and science studies—from Machiavelli to Latour—for insights on bringing scientific expertise into representative democracy.Public controversies over issues ranging from global warming to biotechnology have politicized scientific expertise and research. Some respond with calls for restoring a golden age of value-free science. More promising efforts seek to democratize science. But what...