Julian: 1621 books

L’invito a un tè pomeridiano porta ad alcune rivelazioni sconvolgenti. Belgravia, romanzo di Julian Fellowes, è una storia in undici episodi pubblicati settimanalmente, secondo la tradizione dickensiana. Belgravia è la storia di un segreto. Un segreto che si dipana dietro gli usci porticati delle...

Lord e Lady Brokenhurst ospitano alcuni parenti molesti, mentre i Trenchard ricevono un invito inatteso. Belgravia, romanzo di Julian Fellowes, è una storia in undici episodi pubblicati settimanalmente, secondo la tradizione dickensiana. Belgravia è la storia di un segreto. Un segreto che si dipana...

Un giovane affascinante fa il suo ingresso alla soirée di Lady Brockenhurst… ma chi è e per quale motivo la padrona di casa gli riserva tante attenzioni? Belgravia, romanzo di Julian Fellowes, è una storia in undici episodi pubblicati settimanalmente, secondo la tradizione dickensiana. Belgravia...

Le bische di Londra e un incontro segreto fanno da sfondo a una gran quantità di pettegolezzi. Belgravia, romanzo di Julian Fellowes, è una storia in undici episodi pubblicati settimanalmente, secondo la tradizione dickensiana. Belgravia è la storia di un segreto. Un segreto che si dipana dietro...

How did a young woman from a Normandy fishing port come to take centre-stage in a sensational criminal trial in Paris, a heroine to the political Left, a hate figure to the Right. Madeleine is on a quest to find and shame the superior officer whose act of cowardice, officially covered up, had caused...

Unlike Alfred Thayer Mahan, Britain’s great maritime strategist Sir Julian Corbett believed that victory in war does not come simply by the exercise of sea power and that, historically, this has never been the case. Corbett’s keen analysis of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 as presented in this...

In The Small Heart of Things, Julian Hoffman intimately examines the myriad ways in which connections to the natural world can be deepened through an equality of perception, whether it’s a caterpillar carrying its house of leaves, transhumant shepherds ranging high mountain pastures, a quail taking...

Sometime between President Carter’s ‘Malaise’ and the dawn of the Reagan era, Queens, New York. A generation of mostly ‘latch key kids’ find themselves on their own, indulging in every vice available to them. Drugs, music, sex, it’s all there for the taking, since no one is looking. It...

Major General Julian Thompson first wrote No Picnic when the momentous events of April - June 1982 were fresh in his mind. As Commander of 3 Commando Brigade, he was at the heart of the planning and conduct of the War. Under his direct command had been the Royal Marine Commandos and the two battalions...

Robert Rice Reynolds (1884-1963), U.S. senator from North Carolina from 1933 to 1945, was one of the most eccentric politicians in American history. His travels, his five marriages, his public faux pas, and his flamboyant campaigns provided years of amusement for his constituents. This political biography...

Respected transport author Julian Holland delves into the intriguing world of steam in his latest book, which is full of absorbing facts and figures on subjects ranging from Cornish beam engines, steam railway locomotives, road vehicles and ships through to traction engines, steam rollers and electricity...

Part travelogue, part Fight Club, part sociological study; Fistfights With Muslims In Europe: One Man's Journey Through Modernity catalogues the author's travels in Europe over a five-year span in the 2000's, and how they impacted his personal and political journey. Interactions with both native...

This revisionary account of the Soweto Uprising of June 1976 and the decade preceding it transforms our understanding of what led to this crucial flashpoint of South Africa's history. Brown argues that far from there being "quiescence" following the Sharpeville Massacre and the suppression...

This is a thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded edition of a classic illustrated introduction to the structural materials in natural organisms and what we can learn from them to improve man-made technology--from nanotechnology to textiles to architecture. Julian Vincent's book has long been recognized...