Julian: 1621 books

This insightful guide provides a pragmatic roadmap for treating adult survivors of complex psychological trauma. Christine Courtois and Julian Ford present their effective, research-based approach for helping clients move through three clearly defined phases of posttraumatic recovery. Two detailed...

Exploring concepts of ageing, personhood, capacity, liberty, best interests and the nature and ethics of palliative care, this book will help those in the caring professions to understand and engage with the thoughts and arguments underpinning the experience of dementia and dementia care. Dementia...

A fascinating introduction to a variety of Native American projects and history! Learn everything there is to know about Indian crafts and lore. Julian Harris Salomon takes you on a breathtaking journey of Native American customs and traditions. Originally published in 1928, this book is filled...

Nobody knows where it will end. I only know where it began - in Rutlan - twenty-four hours ago! Julian Grow weaves a science fiction tale of epic proportions, demonstrating a clear and concise understanding of the futuristic genre!

Off the Page examines the business and craft of screenwriting in the era of media convergence. Daniel Bernardi and Julian Hoxter use the recent history of screenwriting labor coupled with close analysis of scripts in the context of the screenwriting paraindustry—from “how to write a winning script”...

The virgin and the birch rod were often central figures in classic Victorian erotic literature. The Confessions of Georgina is undoubtedly the epitome of the genre. Through the use of the candid memoir to tell his outrageous and outrageously funny tale of flagellation and defloration, the author...

With Deng Xiaoping’s blessing, Mao’s successors scoured the globe for fresh ideas to launch domestic prosperity and global economic power. Yet China’s government did not publicize its engagement with Western-style innovations, claiming instead that economic reinvention was the Party’s achievement alone. Julian Gewirtz sets forth the truer story.

What is the meaning of life? It is a question that has intrigued the great philosophers--and has been hilariously lampooned by Monty Python. Indeed, the whole idea strikes many of us as vaguely pompous, a little absurd. Is there one profound and mysterious meaning to life, a single ultimate purpose...

Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas Issue #5: April 2019 Featuring Ideas by: Michael Strauss, Ed Simon, Raja Halwani, Robert Noggle, Archie Brown, Michael Robertson, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Peter Levine, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Julian Baggini, Christopher Kavanagh, and Johanna Hanink

Two old friends in their sixties, one an architectural historian dying of cancer, tour Egypt with unpleasant results for all concerned.

"Our time is the age of postmodernity and of the clash of epochs. But a new age of humanity is rising. It is evolutionity or the evolutionary epoch which replaces modernity and postmodernity." Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus (Political-Philosophical Treatise) aims to establish the...

Math—the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions—usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes—conclusions that seem completely unreasonable or just plain impossible but that are nevertheless demonstrably true. Did you know that a losing...

Julian Barnes doet verslag van zijn jarenlange zoektocht naar gastronomische precisie en culinaire verrukking. Wijsneus in de keuken is de perfecte troost voor iedereen die ooit uit frustratie een kookboek door het keukenraam wilde smijten, en een must-read voor alle liefhebbers van Barnes.

‘Ik geloof niet in God, maar ik mis Hem.’ Niets te vrezen is onder meer een familiegeschiedenis, een ideeënwisseling met zijn broer – een vooraanstaand filosoof –, een overdenking van de dood, een viering van de kunst, een discussie over God en een eerbetoon aan de Franse schrijver Jules...