Peace seems to be the most difficult thing to find in life today and the thing most desired by us all. "Peace! Be Still! The Gift of Peace" demonstrates how we can acquire peace in the midst of the tempests of daily life and know joy unspeakable and full of glory.

Peace seems to be the most difficult thing to find in life today and the thing most desired by us all. "Peace! Be Still! The Gift of Peace" demonstrates how we can acquire peace in the midst of the tempests of daily life and know joy unspeakable and full of glory.

"Be Free! The Gift of Freedom" explains how to find freedom and transform our lives making us people of great joy and happiness, by showing how to overcome fear, deception, anger, guilt, feelings of inferiority, and other things that keep us from being free.

In today's world we seem to be losing more and more of our freedom. "Be Free! The Gift of Freedom" demonstrates what we can do to throw off all the bondage that enslaves us, impeding our happiness and stifling our joy. Ricardo C Castellanos and Allienne R. Becker describe the peace and contentment that flow from those who have attained freedom and liberty.

"Be Free! The Gift of Freedom" explains how to find freedom and transform our lives making us people of great joy and happiness, by showing how to overcome fear, deception, anger, guilt, feelings of inferiority, and other things that keep us from being free.

In today's world we seem to be losing more and more of our freedom. "Be Free! The Gift of Freedom" demonstrates what we can do to throw off all the bondage that enslaves us, impeding our happiness and stifling our joy. Ricardo C Castellanos and Allienne R. Becker describe the peace and contentment that flow from those who have attained freedom and liberty.

"All You Need is Love: The Way of Joy" explains how love can transform our lives making us people of great joy and happiness, by showing how to overcome fear, anger, guilt, and other negative emotions as we let love enter our hearts, taking possession of them. Getting rid of a poor self image, finding healing for our diseases, and successful family living are dealt with in detail. The book describes how to find eternal happiness and joy that will never fade.

"All You Need is Love: The Way of Joy" explains how love can transform our lives making us people of great joy and happiness, by showing how to overcome fear, anger, guilt, and other negative emotions as we let love enter our hearts, taking possession of them. Getting rid of a poor self image, finding healing for our diseases, and successful family living are dealt with in detail. The book describes how to find eternal happiness and joy that will never fade.

The volume approaches Greeleys novels by comparing him to the 19th-century French writer Honore de Balzac. A prolific and popular author, Balzac recorded his milieu in tremendous detail, created a fictional universe peopled by hundreds of characters, and explored the role of Catholicism in his world. Because of his training as a sociologist, Greeley brings to his novels a thorough knowledge of popular culture and social theory. And because of his experience as a Roman Catholic priest, he has gained special knowledge of vice, virtue, and the workings of the Church. Like Balzac-now a major canonical author-Greeley has created a world of numerous fictional persons, mapped the details of his culture, and explored the place of Catholicism in contemporary life.

This exciting collection of essays explores the fantastic in world literature, art, theater, film, and popular culture. Highlights include artwork by Edward Carlos and the essay Staging the Phantasmagorical: The Theatrical Challenges and Rewards of William Butler Yeats by internationally acclaimed Yeats scholar James W. Flannery. Readers will be delighted by the wit of British author Brian Aldiss in his essay If Hamlet's Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy. From new insights into the connections between Dracula and Frankenstein to a discussion of the Internet, the lively volume offers a diverse look at fantasy and science fiction.

During the first part of the nineteenth century, the Lost Worlds Romance, a new literary form, appeared in which an explorer, most often a scientist, made a voyage to what was then considered to be a remote part of the earth where he discovered a fantastic lost world. This book surveys the Lost Worlds Romance from its beginnings as it evolved from travel literature and utopian fiction to its eclipse when there were no more unexplored corners of the earth and it took to the stars, evolving into modern Science Fiction. Interestingly, these romances reflect the developing natural and social sciences of the times in which they were written. The themes of evolution, teleportation, human longevity, euthanasia, other dimensions, reincarnation, uses of radium, utopian and dystopian societies, among many others, play a prominent part in the discussion of these works. Darwin, Marx, and Freud are shown to have especially influenced the authors of these romances. The book also demonstrates that at a time when the sexual mores of mainline fiction were fairly repressed, writers of the Lost Worlds Romance were permitted much liberty with the erotic imagination. The treatment given to women in these romances is explored.