Julian: 1621 books
Five Bold Choices
Rise above Your Circumstances and Redefine Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
There are times in our life when we feel stuck. Our noble desires for a successful career and family life get bogged down or derailed by the challenges before us. Whether it be a difficult circumstance or our own limiting beliefs and fears, we can’t seem to get past what holds us back.
Jay...
by Julian FELLOWES
Language: French
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Avec toute la grâce, l'humour et l'intelligence des meilleurs romanciers d'outre-Manche, le créateur de Downton Abbey nous propose un voyage passionnant dans la haute société anglaise.
Lorsque commence cette histoire, le narrateur est sans nouvelles de Damien Baxter depuis près de quarante...
Competition for prisons
Public or private?
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
A quarter of century has passed since Margaret Thatcher launched one of her most controversial reforms, privately- run prisons, and the role of the private sector in delivering public services continues to be one of the big political issues of our time. This book, by a critical professional insider,...
Smith Wigglesworth
The Complete Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Julian Wilson provides one of the most comprehensive accounts of the life of Smith Wigglesworth to date.
Few individuals have made such an impact on the world for the gospel as the Yorkshire-born plumber turned evangelist Smith Wigglesworth. Although he died in 1947, he is, arguably, more well-known...
Welcome To Everytown
A Journey Into The English Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to define our national character, what might be called the nation's philosophy...
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten
100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Perfect for gifting to lovers of philosophy or mining intelligent ice-breaker topics for your next party, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten offers one hundred philosophical puzzles that stimulate thought on a host of moral, social, and personal dilemmas. Taking examples from sources as diverse as Plato...
Taming Globalization
International Law, the U.S. Constitution, and the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
In 1997, a Mexican national named Jose Ernesto Medellin was sentenced to death for raping and murdering two teenage girls in Texas. In 2004, the International Court of Justice ruled that he was entitled to appellate review of his sentence, since the arresting officers had not informed him of his right...
Censorship
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Offering a potted history of censorship from the execution of Socrates in 399BC to the latest in internet filtering, Petley also explains how today’s media monopolies and moguls censor by limiting what news/entertainment they impart. Julian Petley is professor of Film and Television at Brunel University, UK. He is the author of several books on censorship.
New Boston Globe Cookbook
More than 200 Classic New England Recipes, From Clam Chowder to Pumpkin Pie
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The classic cookbook, now fully updated and revised
With The New Boston Globe Cookbook, the beloved Boston Globe Cookbook*—which was first published in 1948 and has sold almost 100,000 copies in Globe Pequot Press editions since the 1980s*—comes back to life in all its glory, now also reflecting...
Liberalism in Neoliberal Times
Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today.
What does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be...
Practical Zen
Meditation and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Zen master Julian Daizan Skinner guides the reader through a sequence of meditation techniques that can safely lead even a complete novice through to advanced levels. Based on his own long experience of the Rinzai Zen tradition, as taught by the great seventeenth-century masters, Hakuin and Bankei,...
The Mid-Twentieth-Century Concert Pianist
An English Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
In this book, Julian Hellaby presents a detailed study of English piano playing and career management as it was in the middle years of the twentieth century. Making regular comparisons with early twenty-first-century practice, the author examines career-launching mechanisms, such as auditions and...
by Julian Goodare
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The European Witch-Hunt seeks to explain why thousands of people, mostly lower-class women, were deliberately tortured and killed in the name of religion and morality during three centuries of intermittent witch-hunting throughout Europe and North America.
Combining perspectives from history,...
Mexican Screen Fiction
Between Cinema and Television
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Mexican cinema is booming today, a decade after the international successes of Amores perros and Y tu mamá también. Mexican films now display a wider range than any comparable country, from art films to popular genre movies, and boasting internationally renowned directors like Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro...