Julian: 1621 books
by Julian Stodd
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
In the Social Age, we exist in many communities, both online and real. The ways we come together, the importance of the spaces we create and inhabit, the ways we co-exist, all of this fascinates me.
I spent a week in New York, exploring different spaces and meeting people from various communities:...
by Chrystine Julian
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
This is a collection of thoughts and observations. There is no representation of truth in these pages; among the most often used words are “perhaps” and “maybe”. The subjects include mystic love, reality, inner peace, beliefs and more. You might discover moments of awe and aha, or be completely...
Coming Famine
The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of impending planetary crisis--a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century--that would dwarf any in our previous experience. Cribb's comprehensive assessment describes a dangerous confluence of shortages--of water, land, energy,...
Who Needs Classical Music?
Cultural Choice and Musical Value
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
During the last few decades, most cultural critics have come to agree that the division between "high" and "low" art is an artificial one, that Beethoven's Ninth and "Blue Suede Shoes" are equally valuable as cultural texts. In Who Needs Classical Music?, Julian Johnson...
Somebody's Daughter
The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
They are America’s forgotten children, the hundreds of thousands of child prostitutes who walk the Las Vegas Strip, the casinos of Atlantic City, the truck stops on interstates, and the street corners of our cities. Many people wrongly believe sex trafficking involves young women from foreign lands....
Critical Studies 1
Patricia Cornelius
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Patricia Cornelius is one of Australia’s most awarded and celebrated playwrights. She is known for her confronting plays that often deal with people living on the margins of society, struggling with poverty and prejudice. The Sydney Festival 2017 showcased three of Patricia’s plays, as well as...
by Julian Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
In his latest novel, Julian Barnes, author of Talking It Over and A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, trains his laser-bright prose on the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.
Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader, is placed on trial for crimes that range from corruption to political...
Bandalism
The Rock Group Survival Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Bandalism [ban-d?l-i-z?m] n .: the willful or malicious destruction of, or damage to, the fabric of a rock/pop/indie group brought about by one or more of its members
Axl Rose's monumental meltdowns . . . Kurt Cobain's tragic band-slaying suicide: The long history of platinum-selling überband...
by Zoë Wanamaker, Julian Curry
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Zoë Wanamaker discusses playing Beatrice in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, in this ebook taken from Shakespeare On Stage: Volume 2 - Twelve Leading Actors on Twelve Key Roles.
In each volume of the Shakespeare On Stage series, a leading actor takes us behind the scenes of a landmark...
From Kinshasa to Kandahar
Canada and Fragile States in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Failed or fragile states are those that are unable or unwilling to provide a socio-political framework for citizens and meet their basic needs. They are a source of terrorism and international crime, as well as incubators of infectious disease, environmental degradation, and unregulated mass migration....
The Fierce Urgency of Now
Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
A majestic big-picture account of the Great Society and the forces that shaped it, from Lyndon Johnson and members of Congress to the civil rights movement and the media
Between November 1963, when he became president, and November 1966, when his party was routed in the midterm elections, Lyndon...
The Iberian Flame
Thomas Kydd 20
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' - Guardian
1808. With the Peninsula in turmoil, Napoleon Bonaparte signs a treaty to dismember Portugal and put his brother, Joseph, on the throne of Spain.
Meanwhile, Nicholas Renzi, the Lord Farndon,...
Persephone
Thomas Kydd 18
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
'PERSEPHONE is another shining milepost for Captain Thomas Kydd and his creator, Julian Stockwin' - Quarterdeck
November 1807. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd must sail to Lisbon to aid the Portuguese Royal Family's evacuation in the face of Napoleon's ruthless advance through Iberia. In the chaos...
The Baltic Prize
Thomas Kydd 19
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
1808. Parted from his new bride, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is called away to join the Northern Expedition to Sweden, now Britain's only ally in the Baltic. Following the sudden declaration of war by Russia and with the consequent threat of the czar's great fleet in St Petersburg, the expedition must...