The Constitution of Literature challenges the prevailing understanding of the relationship between literature and democracy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when both literature and de
Osprey's examination of the Saratoga campaign, which?was a watershed, and is widely believed to have been the turning point of the American War of Independence (1775-1783). For the first time British
The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as cont
Five years have passed since women were exhorted to ‘Lean In’. Over that time, the world has transformed beyond all expectations. But why should anyone ‘lean in’ to a patriarchal system that is out of
Following on from her 2013 T.S. Eliot Prize-winning Parallax, the inaugural Poet Laureate of Belfast, Sinead Morrissey, returns with a poignant and compelling new collection which evokes the atmospher
Journalist Chris Baxter is at a crossroads. When he returns with his teenage daughter to live with his mother Susan in the beautiful township of Neverend, Chris hopes to pick up the pieces after his l
A “brave thinking” approach to changing everything from your finances to your futureUpgrade your mind to upgrade your life.What if you could accomplish your five-year plan in a matter of months? If that sounds impossible, you’re not thinking bravely. Yet.In this transformational guide to changing your life for good, personal development expert and best-selling author Mary Morrissey shows you how to move from stasis to action―by changing the stories you tell yourself. Drawing from advancements in science, timeless principles from wisdom traditions, and her personal stories and insights, Morrissey gives you the tools to overcome “common-hour thinking”―the fact-based, linear way of processing reality that measures what is possible by what resources you believe are available to you―and replace it with the powerful alternative that is brave thinking.Where common-hour thinking is limiting and uncreative, brave thinking is expansive and imaginative, not limited by time or circumstance or even
The world of British-born artist Richard Wilson is a strangely disorientating one, in which gallery spaces are flooded with highly reflective oil, airplanes are crushed and then unfurled like newly h
